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Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Alphabet Authors ~ V is for Vargas Llosa

I found this idea on Simon's blog @ Stuck in a Book. He picks an author for each letter of the alphabet, sharing which of their books he's read, which I ones he owns, how he came across them etc.

I haven't read many authors whose names begin with V but this was an easy one, the author in question received the Nobel Prize and I like every single one of his books.

Mario Vargas Llosa
- "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" (E: La tía Julia y el escribidor) - 1977
- "The Feast of the Goat" (E: La fiesta del chivo) - 2000 *
- "The Storyteller" (E: El Hablador) - 1987

Facts about Mario Vargas Llosa:
Born    March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru
Died     April 13, 2025 (age 89), Lima, Peru
He has been married twice and has three children.
He is a citizen of three countries: Peru, Spain, Dominican Republic.
He is also a political activist and has supported several different political parties, even ran for the presidency in Peru in 1990.

Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

He also received a lot of other awards, i.a. the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis) in 1996.

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This is part of an ongoing series where I will write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here.
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6 comments:

  1. Lark 28 May 2025 at 15:16

    Glad to know you've enjoyed every one of his books; he's another author I've never checked out.

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    1. Marianne 29 May 2025 at 12:52

      Thanks, Lark. I have enjoyed every book that I read. The Feast of the Goat is a tough one since it's about Rafael Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic. Not a nice but a true story. Something worth knowing about. And even that is very well written.

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  2. Captivated Reader28 May 2025 at 21:50

    I had never heard of Mario Vargas Llosa until he had won the Nobel Prize. In 2016, I read and reviewed In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa by Mario Vargas Llosa and didn't enjoy it much. Maybe I just read the wrong book? I don't know! I've never read another one of his novels. https://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2016/10/in-praise-of-stepmother-by-mario-vargas.html

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    1. Marianne 29 May 2025 at 12:55

      Thanks for that, Lisa. I have not read that one. A friend of mine had lend me The Storyteller before he won the Nobel Prize, so I knew him. But that's not always the case, I am often surprised that I never heard about the recipient.
      Still, thanks for the link, I will have a look at your review.

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  3. Emma at Words And Peace / France Book Tours1 June 2025 at 02:18

    I have only read The Storyteller, but I want to try more

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    1. Marianne 1 June 2025 at 12:40

      That was my first book by him and it is a great one.

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