Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of the Vargas Llosa family (March 28, 1936 – April 13, 2025), better known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and university professor. Vargas Llosa is considered one of Latin America’s most important novelists and journalists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have a global influence and a wider international audience than any other writer from the Latin American literary boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the cartography of power structures his work has drawn and for his brilliant depiction of individual resistance, revolt, and defeat.”