MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 “ for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’ s resistance, revolt, and defeat. ” Peru’ s foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’ s most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.
