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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist. Vargas Llosa is considered one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Some consider him to have had a larger international impact and world-wide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom.

Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (1966) (La casa de los perros, 1963), The Green House (1968) (La casa verde, 1965), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (1975) (Conversación en la catedral, 1969). He continues to write 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) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), have been adapted as feature films (the latter as Tune in Tomorrow). (more...)