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complete name:	Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
nobel prize:	literature
award year:	2010
prize share:	Prize share: 1/1
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
biography:	Biography
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
birth name:	Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
given name:	Mario
family name:	Llosa
occupation:	screenwriter
occupation:	writer
occupation:	politician
occupation:	playwright
occupation:	dramaturge
occupation:	journalist
occupation:	literary critic
occupation:	novelist
occupation:	essayist
work location:	Princeton University, 1 Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544-0070, United States of America
notable work:	The Time of the Hero
description:	Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, college professor, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. Upon announcing the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy said it had been given to Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966), The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral, 1969/1975). He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982), have been adapted as feature films. Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian. Increasingly- however- he has expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa has made many criticisms of nationalism in different parts of the world. Another change over the course of his career has been a shift from a style and approach associated with literary modernism, to a sometimes playful postmodernism. Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa has been politically active throughout his career; over the course of his life, he has gradually moved from the political left towards liberalism. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with his policies. He ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating classical liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori. He is the person who, in 1990, "coined the phrase that circled the globe", declaring on Mexican television, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship", a statement which became an adage during the following decade. In 1995, he wrote and published a children's book called, Hitos y Mitos Literarios (English version as "The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works"), which is illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and published by Círculo de Lectores.
pronunciation:	Mario Vargas Llosa (/ˈvɑːrɡəs ˈjoʊsə/; Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβaɾgas ˈʎosa]),
image copyright:	© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2010/summary/>
date birth:	1936
usual name:	Jorge Llosa