MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

BIOGRAPHY
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa.
(Arequipa, Peru, 28 of March of
1936).

Writer,

politician

and

Peruvian journalist. Nobel prize de

Literatura 2010.
It passes his childhood between
Bolivia and Peru and when finishing its
primary studies collaborates in newspapers The
Chronicle and The Industry. In 1952 a titled play
writes The fled one from Inca, that is released in
a theater of Lima.
It studies Letters and Right in the Greater National University of San Marcos
and begins professionally to collaborate in newspapers and magazines,
being publisher of Notebooks of Composition and the magazine Literature.
In 1958 they grant to the scholarship of studies Javier to him Prado in the
Complutensian University of Madrid, where he obtains the title of Doctor in
Philosophy and Letters. A year later is transferred to Paris, and there it
works in different means until it manages to enter Agency France Press and,
later, in the Radio French Television, where it knows numerous HispanoAmerican writers.
In 1965 Integra in the Cuban magazine House of the Amricas as member of
its writing advice and remains in her until 1971. In those years House of the
Amricas acts several times like jury of the prizes.
Later it travels to New York, guest to the World-wide Congress of the PEN
Club, and installs its residence in London, where Mary College works like
professor of Hispano-American Literature in the Queen.
During this period it works in addition like translator for UNESCO in Greece,
next to Julio Cortzar; until 1974 its life and the one of its family pass in
Europe, residing in Paris, London and Barcelona.
In 1975 it initiates a series of cinematographic works, and in March of that
year Member of Number in the Real Peruvian Academy of the Language is
chosen.

In 1976 he was elected president of PEN Club International, a position he

held until 1979.
In Peru presents the television program The Tower of Babel and in 1983
chaired the Investigation Committee of the case Uchuraccay, dedicated to
solving the murder of eight journalists. A late eighties enters the world of
politics in Peru and in 1990 he returned to London, where he resumed his
literary activity.
In March 1993 obtained Spanish citizenship, without renouncing the
Peruvian. Collaborate in the newspaper El Pas and cultural magazine Letras
Libres.
In 1994 he was appointed member of the Royal Spanish Academy and that
same year he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize; is subsequently
recognized honorary doctor at many universities. His work has been
translated into more than 30 languages.