2017-03-28 Tue

Born on 28th March, 1936, Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, a college professor. He is the recipient of the 2010 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 stood for Presidential elections in 1990 but was unsuccessful.

He was interested in poetry since childhood but was forced into military training by his father. Despite this, he still pursued his interests and became an author. La huida del Inca (1952) was his first published work after which he became a recognized name in Peruvian Literature.

Some of his best novels are La ciudad y los perros (1963) {The Time of the Hero), La Tia Julia y el Escribidor (1977) {Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter}, La Guerra del fin del fin del undo (1981) {The War of the End of the World}, La Fiesta del Chivo (2000) {The Feast of the Goat}, Travesuras de la Nina mala (2006) {The Bad Girl}, etc.

In 2015 he made his acting debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid, where he appeared as a duke in Los Cuentos de la peste (Tales of the Plague), his stage adaption of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron.

Correos (Spain Post) issued this 0.80 Euro commemorative stamp of Mario on 3rd October 2011.