Abila

Biography

As of its 14 years he studies the Military academy Leoncio Prado of Lima, which lets a disaster to him remember and the matter its book the city and the dogs .

He studies at the University San Marcos of Lima and occupies various professions in parallel; Corrector, then collaborator at the headings cinema of literary reviews, in particular Literatura (1957-1958) or El Comercio . For a short period it was implied in a branch coed of the Peruvian Communist party, which it gives up while protesting against the line stalinist on the literature and Article the cuban revolution makes during a time to revive its revolutionary feelings.

Thanks to a purse, it continues its studies with Madrid and obtains in 1958 a doctorate with a thesis on Rubén Darío. After having written a noticed collection of news, Caïds ( Los Jefes , 1959), work which obtained the Leopoldo Price Alas, it settles with Paris.

It is there that it writes the city of the dogs in 1963, work which makes of him an author of reputation (Price of Biblioteca Breve and Prix of Crítica). Its novel is translated almost at once in a score of languages. It described there the life carried out by the juniors (the dogs of the title), and puts in contrast the oppression of the discipline and the brimades undergone by young people with the wind of freedom which blows on the city.

Since, Mario Vargas Llosa is a recognized writer, regularly invited in the universities of the whole world to give courses and conferences to it. In the green House (1966), the author describes the life in the remote Peruvian forest and the urban area of Piura. It again receives the Price of Criticism and the International prize of Literature Rómulo Gallegos in 1967.

Among principal the other novels of Vargas Llosa, one will retain Conversation in the cathedral (1969), Pantaléon and the Visitors (1973), satire of military and religious fanaticism in Peru, the perpetual Orgy (1975) and an semi-autobiographical novel, Aunt Julia and Scribouillard (1977). The novel the War of the end of the world (1982), which deals with the Brazilian policy with the 19th century, was a broad public and critical success, especially in Latin America. Let us quote also Which killed Palomino Molero (1986), novel devoted to political violences in Peru, the Man who speaks (1987) and Éloge about the mantle (1988).

Tried for one period by the Communism, it became liberal by seeing the drifts of the cuban revolution. It founds in its country a democratic movement of right-hand side, Libertad. He was the liberal right-wing candidate to the Peruvian presidential elections of 1990 and was beaten with the second turn. He gained Spain then and settled in Madrid. The government of Felipe González granted the Spanish Nationalité to him without it having to give up the Peruvian one. He is member of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy).

He received the Prix Cervantes in 1994.

Vargas Llosa is titular of 40 doctorates Honoris causa of which that of the Université Rennes 2 High Brittany and that of the Université of Rheims Champagne-Ardenne since September 19th, 2007.

Random links:

Sampler of ambient air | Louisiana Red | Code Lyoko (video game) | Columbus (Georgia) | The Door of Darkness