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Vargas Llosa, Mario

(Encyclopedia) Vargas Llosa, MarioVargas Llosa, Mariomärˈyō värˈgäs yōˈsä [key], 1936–, Peruvian novelist and politician, b. Arequipa. Although his works contain much external realism, emphasizing…

The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

Author:Mario Vargas LlosaPublisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux Peruvian expatriate Vargas Llosa has left the dry political allegory of his most recent novel, Death in the Andes, and returned…

2010 Nobel Prize Winners

Related Links Nobel Prize History Nobel Prize History Quiz Nobel Peace Prize Winners Quiz Women Nobel Prize Winners Quiz…

1997 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin)General Nonfiction: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Biography or…

2002 PEN Literary Award Winners

PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama Maria Irene Fornes, master American dramatist Tony Kushner, playwright in mid-career PEN/Nabokov Award for Career Achievement Mario Vargas Llosa PEN/…

The Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals

Who are the world's leading public intellectuals? The October 2005 cover of Prospect Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect magazine selected their top 100, and invited readers to vote…

Nobel Prize for Literature

The Most Famous Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize for Literature, one of the six international awards administered by the Nobel Foundation, honors outstanding achievement in letters. The estate…

Vargas, Getúlio Dornelles

(Encyclopedia) Vargas, Getúlio DornellesVargas, Getúlio Dornelleszhət&oomacr;ˈlyō dôrnĕˈlĭs värˈgəs [key], 1883–1954, Brazilian statesman, twice president (1930–45, 1951–54). The popular governor…