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Mario Vargas Llosa
He was born in Arequipa [Peru] on the 20th of March 1936 to his first marriage was to Julia Urquidi in 1955 and he got divorced in 1964.
He married Patricia Llosa Urquidi in 1965.
Children: Alvaro (Lima, 1966), Gonzalo (Lima, 1967), Morgana (Barcelona, 1974).
Studies of:
1941-1944 Colegio La Salle, Cochabamba, Bolivia
From first class to fourth class of primary school
1945 Colegio Salesiano, Piura, Perú
Fifth class of primary school.
1946-1949 Colegio La Salle, Lima, Perú
Sixth class of primary school and first and second year of secondary school
1950-1951 Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, Lima, Perú
Third and fourth years of secondary school.
1952 Colegio National San Miguel, Piura, Perú
fifth year of secondary school.
1953-1958 Universidad National Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
Literature degree.
1959 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ph.D. (Cum laude) in 1971
Work and academic activity:
1952 Column writer for local newspapers in Piura, Perú.
1955 Journalist for the Turismo and Cultura Peruana magazines and for the Sunday supplement of El Comercio, head of news on Radio Panamericana, Lima, Peru.
1959 Spanish teacher the Berlitz school, journalist for the France-Presse agency and for French radio and television, Paris, France.
1965 He formed part of the jury for the House of America awards, La Habana Cuba.
1967 He taught at Queen Mary's College, London University.
Translator for UNESCO in Greece, with Julio Cortázar.
1968 Guest lecturer at Washington State University, United States, during the autumn semester.
1969 He taught at Kings College, London University and was Guest lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico.
1975 He became a member all of the Peruvian Academy of Spanish. A user Guest lecturer in at the Edward Larocque of Tinker chair in Columbia University, the United States, during the autumn semester. He was the co-director, along with José Maria Gutiérrez, of the cinema version of Pantaleón y las visitadoras.
1976 President of the INTERNATIONAL PEN CLUB.
Took up the Simón Bolívar chair at the University of Cambridge, England
1980 Resident writer at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, the United States
Director of the La torre de Babel television program, Lima, Peru.
1983 Following a request from the president of the Republic he became a member of the investigating commission of the events at Uchuraccay, Lima, Peru
1986 He was invited by the Scottish arts Council to give the lecturer as the Neil Gunn international fellow.
1988 He gave a seminar about his work as Guest lecturer at Syracuse University
He set up the Freedom movement and became a member of the Democratic Front (FREDEMO), Lima, Peru.
1989 Presidential candidate for the 1990 Peruvian elections
1991 Given literature course at the Edna Gene and the Jordan Davidson chair at Florida international University, Miami, the United States
1991-1992 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Germany.
1992 Guest lecturer at the Robert Kennedy chair, Harvard University, the United States, during the autumn semester
1994 Guest lecturer at Georgetown University. He participated in the "Distinguished Writer in Residence" programme, Washington DC
1995 President of the jury of the Iber-American film Festival in Huelva, Spain.
1997-1998 Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany.
1998 Member of the Instituto Cervantes patronage.
Member of the jury and for the ECHO television and radio awards
Member of the Jury for the Miguel de Cervantes Award.
He gave a seminar on "Novels and Politics" in the summer courses of the Menéndez Pelayo international University, Santander, Spain.
Guest lecturer at Georgetown University, Washington DC, for the autumn semester.
Member of the Jury for Miguel de Cervantes award, 1999
2001 Summer courses at the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Santander, Spain. Gave a seminar on " History and Fiction: Flora Tristan and Paul Gaugain”
Works
1952 La huída del Inca, play
1957 El Desafio, short story
1959 Los jefes, short story compilation
1963 La ciudad y los perros, novel
1966 La casa verde, novel
1967 Los cachorros, short story
1969 Conversación en La Catedral, short story
"Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc", prologue to the novel by Joanot Martorell.
1971 Historia secreta de una novela
García Márquez: historia de un deicidio, literary prose.
1973 Pantaleón y las visitadoras, novel
1975 La orgía perpetua: Flaubert y Madame Bovary, literary prose.
1977 La tía Julia y el escribidor, novel
1981 La señorita de Tacna, play
La guerra del fin del mundo, novel
Entre Sartre y Camus, prose.
1983 Kathie y el hipopótamo, play
Contra viento y marea, political and literary prose.
1984 Historia de Mayta, novel
"La suntuosa abundancia", and essay about Fernando Botero.
1986 Contra viento y marea, volumes I (1962-1972) and II (1972-1983).
La Chunga, play
¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, detective novel
1987 El hablador, novel
1988 Elogio de la madrastra, novel
1989 Translation from the French and prologue to the story by Arthur Rimbaud, called Un corazón bajo la sotana.
1990 Contra viento y marea, volume III (1983-1990)
La verdad de las mentiras, literary prose
(Tune in tomorrow is released, the film based on La tía Julia y el escribidor)
1991 A writer's reality, collection of lectures given at the University of Syracusa.
1992 "Un hombre triste y feroz", and essay about George Grosz
1993 El pez en el agua, memoirs
El loco de los balcones, play
Lituma en los Andes, novel
1994 Desafíos a la libertad, essays about the culture of Freedom.
Ojos bonitos, cuadros feos, a play written for BBC radio.
1996 La utopía arcaica, José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenes, prose Making Waves, a prose selection from Contra viento y marea (published only in English)
1997 Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, novel; Cartas a un joven novelista, literary prose
2000 La fiesta del Chivo, novel
Nationalismus als neue Bedrohung, selection of political essays (published only in German)
El lenguaje de la pasión, a selection of articles from the series “Piedra de Toque”, published in El País newspaper, Madrid, and in a series of group publications, between 1992 and 2000.
2001 Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío, published by the Universidad National Mayor of San Marcos. This was his graduation thesis from that University in 1958
His work has been translated into the following languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, English, German, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgaria, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Slovakian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Malaysian.
He collaborates with El País newspaper, Madrid, Spain, (Piedra de Toque series) and with the cultural magazine called Letras Libres, Mexico city, Mexico, which is published monthly (Extemporáneos series).
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
1952 Second Prize in the III School Theatre Contest of the Public Education Ministry, for his play entitled La huída del Inca.
Revue Française Award for his short story entitled El desafío.
1959 Leopoldo Alas Award (Spain) for his short story collection, Los jefes.
1963 Biblioteca Breve Award, by Seix Barral, the Spanish Critics’ Award and he came second in the Prix Formentor, for La ciudad y los perros.
1966 Spanish Critics’ Award for his novel La casa verde.
1967 National Novel Award (Peru), for La casa verde and the Rómulo Gallegos International Literature Award (Venezuela).
1976 He was Awarded the Title of Honorary Member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1977 He was awarded the Silver Medal and the Diploma of Honour of the Arequipa Provincial Council (Peru)
Member of the Peruvian Academy of Spanish (Incorporation Ceremony)
1977 Human Rights Award from the South American Jewish Association.
1979 He received the Ramón Godó Lallana Journalism Award, from La Vanguardia Newspaper of Barcelona.
1981 Critics’ Award (Argentina).
He was awarded the Golden Medal of Congreso by the Congress of the Republic of Peru, for his literary career.
1982 Illa Award of the Italian-Latin Americanan Institute of Rome for La tía Julia y el escribidor.
He received the Pablo Iglesias Literature Award from the Chamartín Socialist Group for La guerra del fin del mundo.
1985 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award (France) for La guerra del fin del mundo.
Legion of Honour Award, awarded by the French Government.
Prince of Asturias Literature Award (Spain).
Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America (USA).
Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (USA).
Oficial Insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture.
1988 Golden Medal of the Pan American Society (USA).
The Freedom Award from the Max Schmidheiny Foundation (Switzerland).
1989 The Scanno Award, from Rizzoli Libri (Italy), for his novel El hablador.
1990 Castiglione de Sicilia Award (Italy).
Doctor Honoris Causa from Florida International University in Miami.
Legion of Freedom, from the Ludwig von Mises Cultural Institute (Mexico).
1991 Doctor in Humane Letters from Connecticut College (USA).
T.S. Eliot Award from the Ingersoll Foundation of The Rockford Institute (USA) for creative writing.
1992 Doctor Honoris Causa from the Boston University (USA).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Genoa (Italy).
INTAR 1992 Golden Palm Award from INTAR Hispanic American Arts Centre of New York, (USA).
1993 Doctor Honoris Causa from Dowling College (USA).
Doctor Honoris Causa from Francisco Marroquín University (Guatemala).
Planeta Award (Spain), for Lituma en los Andes.
Spanish Citizenship was awarded by the Government of Spain.
Order of Arts and Letters Title, with the grade of Commander, awarded by the French Government.
1994 Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Doctor Honoris Causa from Georgetown University (USA).
Doctor Honoris Causa from Yale University (USA).
Doctor Honoris Causa from Rennes University II (France).
Miguel de Cervantes Award from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Literary Award in Santiago de Compostela, for Lituma en los Andes.
1995 Jerusalem Award, Israel.
International Literary Award, Chianti Ruffino Antico Fattore, (Florence, Italy), for Lituma en los Andes.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Murcia (Spain).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Valladolid (Spain)
Guest of Honour of the Province of Santa Fe (Argentina).
1996 Incorporation Ceremony to the Royal Spanish Academy.
Peace Prize, German Booksellers’ Association, Frankfurt Book Fair.
1997 Mariano de Cavia Award, from ABC Newspaper, (Spain), for his article entitled "Los inmigrantes" published in El País in August 1996.
Illustrious Visitor to the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Lima (Peru)
Golden Pen Award, from the Madrid Writing Club (Spain)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of San Agustín in Arequipa (Peru)
Medal and Diploma of Honour from the Catholic University of Santa María in Arequipa (Peru)
1998 Critics’ Circle National Award, in the category of "Critic" for Making Waves (USA).
Doctor Honoris Causa from Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (Israel).
Guest of Honour of teh city of Cordoba (Argentina).
Doctor Honoris Causa from University College London (Great Britain).
Honorary Citizen of the city of Asuncion, Paraguay.
1999 Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award, 1999 for his article "Nuevas inquisiciones" published in El País, on 8 November 1998.
XIII International Menéndez Pelayo Award for the revindication of fantasy and for the ethical aspect f his work
Doctor Honoris Causa from Harvard University (the United States).
Medal of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), (the United States).
Jorge Isaacs Award 1999 from the Cali International Art Festival, Colombia.
2000 Diploma of Honour from the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, (Peru) in homage to and recognition of his Alma Mater and by national consensus as "Prohombre del Siglo XX" [Man of the XX Century].
"Cultural Heritage of Humanity" Medal of Arequipa, awarded by the Arequipa Municipality in recognition of his literary career and his promotion and defence democracy and human rights.
2001 Recognition Plate and homage ceremony from the Lima Collage of Lawyers, in recognition if his permanent defence of freedom and law.
Crystal Award of the World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland) in recognition of his artistic achievements and his outstanding contribution to understanding between peoples.
Honorary Professor of the Peruvian University of Applied Science (UPC), Lima (Peru), in recognition of his outstanding academia, professional and cultural trajectory in arts, letters and ideas in the field of humanities.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad National Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (Peru) in recognition not only of his notable literary career but also of his way of continuously interpreting the life and history o Peru. This distinction is of special significance as it comes from his Alma Mater.
The Americas Award 2000-2001, given by the Americas Foundation, New York (USA), for his contribution to the cultural and political life in the Americas, by promoting free and democratic societies based on justice and respect for all citizens.
He inaugurated the Chair of Iber-American Literature and Culture in the Spanish and Portuguese Department of Georgetown University, Washington DC., (USA)
I Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers’ Association for La fiesta del Chivo.
IV Readers’ Award from the Crisol Bookshop Chain for his novel La fiesta del Chivo.
Son Latinos Festival Award, IV Edition, Tenerife, the Canary Islands, for his life’s career.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Roma Tor Vergata University (Italy).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Pau (France)
DECORATION of the Order of “THE SUN OF PERU”, with the Grade of “Great Diamond Cross”, the highest distinction awarded by the State of Peru, in recognition of his ethical and civil principles as well as his contribution to the re-establishment of a free democratic society in the country.
Recognition from the Government of Israel for his selfless work and dedication and his tireless effort for decades to create ties of friendship between the peoples of Peru and Israel.
2002 Doctor Honoris Causa from the National San Antonio Abad del Cusco University (Peru).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of French Polynesia.
Caonabo de Oro Award, of the Dominican Association of Journalists and Writers (Dominican Republic)
Golden Medal of the city of Genoa, (Italy), awarded by the Mayor of the city.
Nabokov Award from the PEN American Centre (USA) for his literary trajectory and the whole of his work
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