Pagine1936–2025 · Arequipa, Peru · also known as Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa burst onto the scene with The Time of the Hero (1963), set in a Lima military academy, and became one of the giants of the Boom with Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), The War of the End of the World (1981) and The Feast of the Goat (2000), about the Dominican dictator Trujillo. He ran for president of Peru in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
Begin with The Feast of the Goat.
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Mario Vargas Llosa burst onto the scene with The Time of the Hero (1963), set in a Lima military academy, and became one of the giants of the Boom with Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), The War of the End of the World (1981) and The Feast of the Goat (2000), about the Dominican dictator Trujillo. He ran for president of Peru in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
The Time of the Hero is usually considered Mario Vargas Llosa’s best-known work, followed by Conversation in the Cathedral, The Feast of the Goat.
Most readers start with The Feast of the Goat.
Both refer to the same writer.
Mario Vargas Llosa’s books are still under copyright, so they are not free to download, but many can be borrowed free from your public library or Open Library — we link to them below.