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The Green House (Original title: La Casa Verde) is the second novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1966.The novel is set over a period of forty years (from the early part of the 20th century to the 1960s) in two regions of Peru: Piura, a dusty town near the coast in the north, and Peruvian Amazonia, specifically the jungle region near the Marañón river.
The War of the End of the World. The War of the End of the World ( Spanish: La guerra del fin del mundo) is a 1981 novel written by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. [ 1 ] It is a fictionalized account of the War of Canudos conflict in late 19th-century Brazil.
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966), [8] The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in The Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral, 1969/1975).
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." [1] The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 7 October 2010. [2] He is the first Nobel laureate in Literature from ...
Jacobo Árbenz with his wife Maria Cristina Vilanova, during their exile in Brazil, 1955.. The name of the novel Tiempos recios refers to an expression used by Saint Teresa of Jesus in her autobiographical book Vida de la Madre Teresa de Jesús (chapter 33), "the times were harsh times", to describe the time she had to live, when in 1559, the Inquisition arrested the Archbishop of Toledo ...
Print. ISBN. 9788432203237. OCLC. 925805060. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ( Spanish: La tía Julia y el escribidor) is the seventh novel by Nobel Prize -winning author Mario Vargas Llosa. It was published by Seix Barral, S.A., Spain, in 1977.
Pages. 368 & 308. Conversation in The Cathedral (original title: Conversación en La Catedral) is a 1969 novel by Spanish-Peruvian writer and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Rabassa. One of Vargas Llosa's major works, it is a portrayal of Peru under the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría in the 1950s, and deals with the lives ...
Actions by corporate landlords creating harmful housing conditions affect the health of tenants and deepens racial and health inequities in Latino and Black communities, according to a study by ...