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Vargas Llosa
[ vahr-guhs yoh-suh; Spanish vahr-gahs yaw-sah ]
noun
- Ma·ri·o [mahr, -ee-oh, mar, ‐, mah, -ryaw], born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.
Vargas Llosa
/ ˈbarɣas ˈʎosa /
noun
- Vargas Llosa(Jorge) Mario1936MPeruvianWRITING: novelistWRITING: writerPOLITICS: politician ( Jorge ) Mario ( Pedro ) born 1936, Peruvian novelist, writer, and political figure. His novels include The City and the Dogs (1963), Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), The Storyteller (1990), and The Notebok of Don Rigoberto (1998). In 1990 he stood unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru. He won the Nobel Prize in literature 2010
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The party, which Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa once called “the perfect dictatorship,” has a long history of corruption.
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Almost certainly politics of various sorts had something to with making Vargas Llosa wait so long for the honor.
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If Vargas Llosa had never written a single novel, his nonfiction alone would have merited the Nobel.
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An honor that the million plus in attendance (excluding perhaps Vargas Llosa) will certainly not protest.
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According to the biographer, Dasso Saldivar, Vargas Llosa ran off to Stockholm with a Swedish stewardess he met while traveling.
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