In these three plays--each introduced by the author--Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed novelist and a cultural and political figure in Peru, explores the complexities of Peruvian society and the writer's imagination.
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Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, 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.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. The first American edition, translated by David Graham-Young. Small octavo. Original black cloth binding, with white titles. Typical mild toning to the contents; else near fine in a clean and bright dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 71308
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1990. Noonday Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0809093677. Translated from the Spanish by David Graham-Young. 217 pages. hardcover. keywords: Drama Translated Peru Latin America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mario Vargas Llosa is a novelist of international stature. He is also the author of three highly successful plays-The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus and La Chunga -here collected for the first time in new translations by David Graham-Young. Each of these plays explores the central theme of Mario Vargas Llosa's work-how and why stories come into being, and the relationship of fact to fiction-and is an indispensable addition to our understanding of his work as a whole. MARIO VARGA5 LLO5A was born in Peru in 1936; he had a scholarship to study in Madrid in 1958 and went on to live in Paris, His first story collection, The Cubs and Other Stories, was published in 1959. Vargas Llosa's reputation grew with the appearance of The Time of the Hero in 1963, though the Peruvian military publicly burned a thousand copies of the book. He continued to live abroad until 1986, returning to Lima just before the restoration of democratic rule. Always politically outspoken, Mario Vargas Llosa served as president of PEN, an international organization which champions the rights of journalists and authors, from 1976 to 1979. He headed the commission appointed by the Peruvian government to investigate the massacre of eight journalists in the Andes in 1983. Mario Vargas Llosa has produced critical studies of Garcia Márquez, Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus, as well as of the roots of contemporary fiction, He has received virtually every important international literary award for his fiction. inventory #15419. Seller Inventory # z15419