Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Novelist Who Became a Writer in France
Madeleine Cadoux, 14/04 13:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa literature France Peru
Born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru, Vargas Llosa left his homeland in the 1950s, believing that true literary ambition could only flourish elsewhere. He arrived in Paris in 1959 at the age of 23 with his first wife, Julia Urquidi, who would later inspire Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. He found a city pulsing with intellectual energy—where Sartre ...
