Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.' He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. John King (translator) is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa, and...See more
Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.' He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. John King (translator) is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa, and he has edited and translated several volumes of Vargas Llosa's essays, including Making Waves and Touchstones. He is professor of Latin American cultural history at the University of Warwick, England. See less