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Vargas Llosa, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro)
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Vargas Llosa, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro)
Peruvian novelist and politician. He wrote La ciudad y los perros/The Time of the Hero (1963) and La guerra del fin del mundo/The War at the End of the World (1982). In the course of his political career, Vargos Llosa began as a communist and later turned to the right; he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1990, when he was defeated by Alberto Fujimori.
As a writer, he belongs to the magic realist school. His other works include La tía Julia y el escribidor/Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), a humorously autobiographical novel, Historia de Mayta/The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1985), an account of an attempted revolution in Peru in 1958, and The Storyteller (1990).
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