Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the most celebrated and best known spanish speaking writers of the twentieth century.Some of his best include works The Feast of the Goat and The End Of The World War. He has written many books and many pertain to the time that he lived in and their problems in . Mario always told a deeper story in his books, based on his view of a situation of something that he feels is wrong in the government. Mario won the nobel prize in 2010 his ‘cartography of structures of power & his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Mario Was born on March 28,1936 in Arequipa, Peru. Arequipa is Peru's second largest city behind the Lima District. He spent his life living in Cochabamba,Bolivia,and Piura,

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