Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025.
Rubé n Gallo is the author of several books, including Proust's Latin Americans, Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis, and the novel Muerte en La Habana. He is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. , Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Anna Kushner has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Guillermo Rosales, and Gonç alo M. Tavares. She has also translated works by Marcial Gala and Leonardo Padura, both of whom are published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
