por S.E. Doña María Elena Rodriguez -La Rosa Embajadora Cultural en el Perú
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The Artist and her work- María Elena Rodríguez-La Rosa I am very happy, as Peruvian and artist, to see the recognition of the Academy in Stockholm to give the Nobel Prize in Literature to Mario Vargas Llosa, the great Peruvian writer.
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A recognition of Latin American literature.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born on Sunday March 28, 1936 in the city of ...Arequipa (Peru). His parents, Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta, and were separated when he came into the world and do not meet his father until he was ten years old. In elementary school through four years at Colegio La Salle Cochabamba in Bolivia. In 1945 his family returned to Peru and is installed in the city of Piura, where the fifth grade at the Salesian College in that city. Primary education culminates in Lima and starts high school in Colegio La Salle. The reunion with his father means a change in the formation of the teenager, who entered the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado de Lima, in which only studies the third and fourth year, but finished high school at Colegio San Miguel de Piura. In 1953 he returned to Lima. Enter the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, where he studied Arts and Law. His choice was not accepted by his father, so it was a very difficult stage, especially when at eighteen decides to marry his aunt Julia Urquidi, increasing their economic emergency. Parallel to his studies plays seven different jobs: writing news in Central Radio (now Radio Panamericana), sign books and check the names of the graves of a cemetery are some of them. However, total revenues barely allowed him to survive. In 1959, partly due to Spain thanks to the scholarship "Javier Prado" for a doctorate at the University Complutense of Madrid, well, you get the title of Doctor of Philosophy. After a year he settled in Paris. At first his life in the city of light passes between scarcity and distress to survive, so they accept jobs, or kept him in touch with their language through teaching (he taught Spanish at the Berlitz School ), or allowed him to make friends of literature, as when he was speaker in the French ORTF or journalist in the Spanish section of France Presse. Efforts to carry out his literary vocation given its first fruit when it was first published, a collection of stories published in 1959 under the title Heads, Leopoldo Arias won the prize. He had previously written a play, the drama The flight of the Inca. In 1964 he returned to Peru, was divorced from Julia Urquidi and made his second trip to the jungle where material collected on the Amazon and its inhabitants. Traveled to Havana in 1965, where part of the jury of the Casa de las Americas Award and the Editorial Board of the magazine Casa de las Americas until the Padilla case marks the final distance of the Cuban revolution in 1971. In 1965 he married Patricia Llosa. Álvaro born of the union (1966), Gonzalo (1967) and Morgan (1974). In 1967 working as a translator for UNESCO in Greece, together with Julio Cortázar; until 1974 his life and his family spent in Europe, living alternately in Paris, London and Barcelona. In Peru, her career continues to be fruitful. In 1981 he was conductor of TV's The Tower of Babel, broadcast on American TV, in 1983, at the express request of President Fernando Belaunde Terry, president of the Commission Investigating the case Uchuraccay to find out about the murder of eight journalists. The '87 is shaping up as a political leader in charge of Freedom Movement, which opposes the nationalization of banks as proposed by the then President Alan García Pérez. In 1990 participated as a candidate for President of the Republic by the Democratic Front-FREDEMO. After two fought elections (first and second round), lost the elections and returned to London, where he resumed his literary activity. In March 1993, obtained Spanish citizenship, without renouncing the Peruvian nationality. Currently working in the newspaper El Pais (Madrid, Spain, Touchstone Series) and the monthly cultural magazine Letras Libres (Mexico DF, Mexico and Madrid, Spain, Serie belated). The accompanying praise and awards throughout his career. In 1975 he was appointed member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and in 1976 was elected President of PEN International. In 1994 he was appointed as a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. It has been a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at several universities around the world, as at Queen Mary College and King's College, London University, University of Cambridge and the Scottish Arts Council (England); in Washington State, at Columbia University in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution, Florida International University, Harvard University, Syracuse University, Princeton University and the Georgetown University (United States), the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), in the Wissenschaftskolleg and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Berlin, Germany), University of Oxford, at the International University Menéndez Pelayo ( Santander, Spain), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Aranjuez, Spain), among others.
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On the other hand, has participated as a juror in the following events: "Awards Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba (1965)," Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva "(1995), where he is currently Chairman of the Jury; "Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain (1998 and 1999) and" ECHO Awards Television & Radio "(1998)," International Film Festival San Sebastian, Spain (2004), where he is currently Chairman of the Jury.
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The following works are part of his vast literary output:
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The flight of the Inca, theater piece (1952), The Challenge, a story (1957), The Heads, a collection of stories (1959), The City and the Dogs, a novel (1963 ), The Green House, a novel (1966), The puppies, story (1967), Conversation in the Cathedral, a novel (1969), Charter of battle Tirant lo Blanc, preface to the novel Joanot Martorell (1969), Secret History a novel, essay (1969), García Márquez: Story of a Deicide, literary essay (1971); Pantoja and the Special, a novel (1973), The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary, literary essay (1975), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, novels (1977), La Senorita de Tacna, theater (1981), The end of world war, novel (1981); between Sartre and Camus, essays (1981), Kathie and the Hippopotamus, theater (1983 ) Against all odds, political and literary essays (1983); History Mayta, novel (1984); The sumptuous abundance essay on Fernando Botero (1984), Against All Odds, Volumes I (1962-1972) and II (1972-1983), (1986), La Chunga, theater (1986), Who Killed Palomino Molero?, detective stories (1986), The Storyteller, a novel (1987), In Praise of the Stepmother, novel (1988); Against all odds, Volume III (1983-1990), (1990); The truth of the lies, literary essays (1990), A Writer's Reality, a collection of lectures delivered at Syracuse University (1991); A sad man ferocious essay on George Grosz (1992), The fish in the water, reports (1993), The Fool on the balconies, theater (1993), Death in the Andes, a novel (1993), Challenges to Freedom, Essays on culture of freedom (1994), Pretty eyes, ugly pictures, radio drama (1994); The archaic utopia, José María Arguedas and the fictions of Indianism, essay (1996), Making Waves, selection tests against wind and tide, published only in English (1996), The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, novel (1997), Letters to a young novelist, literary essay (1997), La fiesta del Chivo, a novel (2000); Nationalismus Bedrohung als neue, selection political essays, published only in German (2000), The language of passion, a selection of articles in the series Touchstone (2001), Paradise on the other corner, a novel (2003); Journal Iraq, selection of articles on War in Iraq (2003), The Temptation of the Impossible, an essay on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (2004); A demi-siècle avec Borges, interviews and essays on Borges, published only in French (2004), Mario Vargas Llosa. Complete Works, Vol III novels and plays (1981-1986), (2005), Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Amérique latine, trials published only in French, (2005), Israel / Palestine. Peace or holy war, collection of articles, (2006), Mischief of the bad girl, a novel, (2006), Odysseus and Penelope, theater (2007) and Dialogue drafts, poems related to the sculptures by Manolo Valdés, Barajas Airport Madrid (2007
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