The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
Awarded on: 2010-10-07
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
Mario Vargas Llosa
Born: 1936-03-28 in Arequipa, Peru
Gender: male
Field: Peruvian novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Biography
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".