Vargas Llosa, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro)
VARGAS LLOSA, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro)
VARGAS LLOSA, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro). Peruvian, b. 1936. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Plays/Screenplays. Career: Writer. Journalist with La Industria, Piura, Peru, and with Radio Panamericana and La Cronica, both in Lima, Peru, during 1950s; worked in Paris, France, as a journalist with Agence France-Presse, as a broadcaster with the radio-television network ORTF, and as a language teacher; University of London, Queen Mary College and Kings ColIege, London, England, faculty member, 1966-68; Washington State University, Seattle, writer in residence, 1968; University of Puerto Rico, visiting professor, 1969; Libre, Paris, co-founder, 1971; Columbia University, NYC, Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor, 1975; Peruvian presidential candidate, Liberty Movement, 1990; Harvard University, Robert Kennedy Professor, 1992-. Publications: FICTION: Los jefes (story collection; title means: The Leaders), 1959, trans. in The Cubs and Other Stories; La ciudad y los perros (novel), 1963, trans. as The Time of the Hero, 1966; La casa verde (novel), 1966, trans. as The Green House, 1968; Los cachorros (novella; title means: The Cubs), 1967, trans. with six short stories, in The Cubs and Other Stories; Conversacion en la catedral (novel), 1969, trans. as Conversation in the Cathedral, 1975; Los cachorros, Los jefes, 1973; Pantaleon y las visitadoras (novel), 1973, trans. as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, 1978; La tia Julia y el escribidor (novel), 1977, trans. as Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 1982; The Cubs and Other Stories, 1979; La guerra del fin del mundo (novel), 1981, trans. as The War of the End of the World, 1984; Historia de Mayta (novel), 1985, trans. as The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, 1986; Quien mato a Palomino Molero? (novel), 1986, trans. as Who Killed Palomino Molero?, 1987; El hablador (novel), 1987, trans. as The Storyteller, 1989; Elogio de la madrastra (novel), 1988, trans. as In Praise of the Stepmother, 1990; Lituma en los Andes (novel), 1993, trans. as Death in the Andes, 1996; The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, 1998. PLAYS: La senorita de Tacna, 1981; Kathie y el hipopotamo: Comedia en dos actos, 1983; La chunga, 1986; Mario Vargas Llosa: Three Plays (contains The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, and La chunga), 1990; El senor de los balcones (play; title means: Lord of the Balconies), 1993; Le Huida (title means: The Escape). OTHER: La novela, 1968; (with G. Garcia Marquez) La novela en America Latina, 1968; (ed. with G. Brotherston) Seven Stories from Spanish America, 1968; Antologia minima de M. Vargas Llosa, 1969; Letra de batalla per Ti- rant lo Blanc, 1969, as Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc, 1991; (with O. Collazos and J. Cortazar) Literatura en la revolucion y revolucion en la literatura, 1970; Los cachorros; El desafio; Dia domingo, 1970; Dia domingo, 1971; Garcia Marquez: Historia de un deicidio (title means: Garcia Marquez: The Story of a Deicide), 1971; La historia secreta de una novela, 1971; (with M. de Riquer) El combate imaginario: Las cartas de batalla de Joanot Martorell, 1972; (with A. Rama) Garcia Marquez y la problematica de la novela, 1973; Obras escogidas: Novelas y cuentos, 1973; La orgia perpetua: Flaubert y Madame Bovary, 1975, trans. as The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary, 1986; Conversacion en la catedral; La orgia perpetua; Pantaleon y las visitadoras, 1978; Jose Maria Arguedas, entre sapos y halcones, 1978; La utopia arcaica, 1978; The Genesis and Evolution of Pantaleon y las visitadoras, 1979; Art, Authenticity and Latin American Culture, 1981; Entre Sartre y Camus, 1981; Contra viento y marea (journalism; title means: Against All Odds), 3 vols, 1983-90; La cultura de la libertad, la libertad de la cultura, 1985; El debate, 1990; La verdad de las mentiras (essays; title means: The Truth of Lies), 1990; A Writer's Reality, 1991; El pez en el agua: Memorias, 1993, trans. as A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, 1994; Desafios a la libertad, 1994, trans. as Making Waves, 1997; La utopia arcaica, 1996; (with P. Bowles) Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings, 1997; Ojos bonitos, cuadros feos, 1996; Cartas a un joven novelista, 1997; Una historia no official, 1998; Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, 1997; La fiesta del chivo, 2000; El lenguaje de la passion, 2000. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Agencia Carmen Balcells, Diagonal 580, 08021 Barcelona, Spain.