Mario Vargas Llosa

  • Mario's Birth

    Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Perú, in 1936
  • Mario's first etape in the school

    He studied in the school La Salle of Cochabamba, until the fourth year of primary, in Colombia.
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    All of his plays/novels/short stories

    He has written more than 60 plays, novels or short stories
  • First trip to Spain

    First trip to Spain
    In 1959, Mario travelled to Spain, due to a scholarship of studies, to make a Doctorate in the Complutensian University of Madrid, this way obtain the title of Doctor of Philosophy and Letters.
  • Divorce

    In 1964, one divorced Mario of his first wife, Julia Orquidi, in Peru
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    His first wife

    His first wife was Julia Urquidi
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    His second wife

    In 1965 he married with his cousin, Patricia Llosa
  • Rómulo Gallego

    One of his maximum awards that are granted in the area of the Hispanic letters is the Galician Romulus, in the year 1967
  • Nobel Prize of Literature

    In 2010, he had the Nobel Prize of Literature
  • His new girlfriend

    His new girlfriend
    In 2015, it started a stable relationship with Isabel Preysler
  • Juror cargues

    Mario has taken part as juror in many events, but in the only one that has occupied the president's post of the juror it was in the International Festival of Cinema of San Sebastian in Spain in the year 2004
  • His third marriage

    In 2017, he get marry with Isabel Preysler