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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.
PEN Translation Prize for Prose. Nobel Prize in Literature (2010) 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 ...
Series. Mario Vargas Llosa. Publication date. 2019. Preceded by. The Neighborhood. Harsh Times ( Spanish: Tiempos recios) is a novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa published in 2019, which narrates the turbulent history of Guatemala in the mid-1950s. [ 1] The book won the ninth edition of the Francisco Umbral Book of the Year Award 2019 ...
The Time of the Hero. First Spanish edition. (publ. Seix Barral) The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros, literally "The City and the Dogs") is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima ...
The Feast of the Goat (Spanish: La Fiesta del Chivo) is a 2000 novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May 1961; and ...
Álvaro Vargas Llosa. Álvaro Vargas Llosa (born 18 March 1966) is a Peruvian -Spanish writer and political commentator and public speaker on international affairs. [ 1] He is also the writer and presenter of a documentary series for National Geographic Channel on contemporary Latin American history that is being shown around the world.