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Mario Vargas Llosa

1936 - 2025

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Vargas Llosa is the 121st most popular writer (up from 208th in 2019), the most popular biography from Peru (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Writer.

Mario Vargas Llosa is most famous for his novel, The War of the End of the World.

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Among writers, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 121 out of 7,302. Before him are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Gide, Theodor Herzl, Hafez, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Ismail I. After him are Federico García Lorca, Muhammad Iqbal, Ivo Andrić, Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, and Ammianus Marcellinus.

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Among people born in 1936, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 5. Before him are Pope Francis, Silvio Berlusconi, Václav Havel, and Sepp Blatter. After him are Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Barry Barish, Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, and Ismail Kadare. Among people deceased in 2025, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 5. Before him are Pope Francis, David Lynch, José Mujica, and Gene Hackman. After him are Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Boris Spassky, Richard Chamberlain, Val Kilmer, Brian Wilson, and Sebastião Salgado.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 1 out of 287. After him are Atahualpa (1502), Lina Medina (1933), Isabel Allende (1942), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920), Alberto Fujimori (1938), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Túpac Amaru (1545), Pachacuti (1380), Manco Cápac (1250), Rose of Lima (1586), and Túpac Amaru II (1738).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 1. After him are Isabel Allende (1942), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), José María Arguedas (1911), Ciro Alegría (1909), Ricardo Palma (1833), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), and Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854).

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