Vargas Llosa

[ vahr-guhs yoh-suh; Spanish vahr-gahs yaw-sah ]

noun

1. Ma·ri·o [mahr, -ee-oh, mar, ‐, mah, -ryaw], born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.

Vargas Llosa

/ ˈbarɣas ˈʎosa /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Literature by Vargas Llosa, by Wendy Guerra, an exiled Cuban writer, and other lesser known writers as well as various magazines and newspapers complete the selection.

From Washington Blade

The party, which Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa once called “the perfect dictatorship,” has a long history of corruption.

From The Daily Beast

Almost certainly politics of various sorts had something to with making Vargas Llosa wait so long for the honor.

From The Daily Beast

If Vargas Llosa had never written a single novel, his nonfiction alone would have merited the Nobel.

From The Daily Beast

An honor that the million plus in attendance (excluding perhaps Vargas Llosa) will certainly not protest.

From The Daily Beast

According to the biographer, Dasso Saldivar, Vargas Llosa ran off to Stockholm with a Swedish stewardess he met while traveling.

From The Daily Beast