MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (b. 1936) is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, and essayist.  He was 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."

Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation.  Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American boom.  Gerald Martin, writing in 1987, asserted that Vargas Llosa was "perhaps the most successful [and] certainly the most controversial Latin American novelist of the past twenty-five years."

He rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as THE TIME OF THE HERO (1963) and the monumental CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL (1969).  He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism.  His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers.  Several, such as CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE (1973) and AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER (1977), have been adapted as feature films.

Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian.  Increasingly, however, he has expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the world.  In his essays, Vargas Llosa has made many criticisms of nationalism in different parts of the world.  Another change over the course of his career has been a shift from a style and approach associated with literary modernism to a sometimes playful postmodernism.

This collections features a large selection of his novels and short fiction, essays, and journalism, including a memoir, three plays, and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.


The following books are in ePUB/MOBI format unless otherwise indicated:


                             == Novels & Short Fiction ==

* AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER (FSG, 1982).  Translated by Helen Lane.

* THE BAD GIRL (FSG, 2007).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE (FSG, 1990).  Translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ.

* CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL (Faber & Faber, 1993).  Translated by Gregory Rabassa.

* THE CUBS & OTHER STORIES (FSG, 1979).  Translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ.

* DEATH IN THE ANDES (FSG, 1996).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* THE DISCREET HERO (FSG, 2015).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* THE DREAM OF THE CELT (FSG, 2012).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* THE FEAST OF THE GOAT (FSG, 2001).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER (FSG, 1990).  Translated by Helen Lane.

* THE NOTEBOOKS OF DON RIGOBERTO (FSG, 1998).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA (FSG, 1986).  Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.

* THE STORYTELLER (FSG, 1989).  Translated by Helen Lane.

* THE TIME OF THE HERO (FSG, 1966).  Translated by Lysander Kemp.

* THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD (FSG, 1984).  Translated by Helen Lane.

* THE WAY TO PARADISE (FSG, 2003).  Translated by Natasha Wimmer.

* WHO KILLED PALOMINO MOLERO? (FSG, 1987).  Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.



                                    == Drama ==

* THREE PLAYS: The Young Lady from Tacna / Kathie and the Hippopotamus / La Chunga (Hill & Wang, 1990).  Translated by David Graham-Young.



                                  == Nonfiction ==

* A FISH IN THE WATER: A Memoir (FSG, 1994).  Translated by Helen Lane.

* IN PRAISE OF READING AND FICTION: The Nobel Lecture (Route, 2011).  Translated by Edith Grossman.

* THE LANGUAGE OF PASSION: Selected Commentary (FSG, 2003).  Translated by Natasha Wimmer.

* LETTERS TO A YOUNG NOVELIST (FSG, 2003).  Translated by Natasha Wimmer.

* MAKING WAVES: Essays (FSG, 1996).  Translated and edited by John King.

* THE PERPETUAL ORGY: Flaubert & Madame Bovary (FSG, 1986).  Translated by Helen Lane.

* THE TEMPTATION OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables (Princeton UP, 2007). -- PDF

* TOUCHSTONES: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics (FSG, 2011).  Translated by John King.

* A WRITER'S REALITY (Syracuse UP, 1991).  Edited with an Introduction by Myron I. Lichtblau. -- PDF

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