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Realmadrid.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Renowned Peruvian author and Department Head of the Masters in Sports offered by Real Madrid, Mario Vargas Llosa expresses his satisfaction in seeing how the world of sport has come to understand its role and commitment to society. Perhaps one day football and Real Madrid will appear in one of his works, but until then, he has given us his analysis of how sport continues to evolve to become an integral...
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Mi novela favorita (My favourite novel) is a Peruvian radio program (aired by Radio Programas del Perú - RPP) that features each week a new one hour dramatization (by Alonso Alegría and Alonso Cueto ) of a classical novel selected by Mario Vargas Llosa . In its first season, and adaptation of Wuthering Heights was aired (July 2007). This weekend is Jane Eyre's turn : RPP (Radio) (Peru) September 13...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Yes, folks, I'm talking about those two once-notable authors, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, who have both decided to keep their names in the news by turning their pens to machetes in the name of right-wing hackery. Since it's currently fashionable in certain circles to bash Chavecito for everything from his impoverished background to his military career to his friendship with Fidel to, yes,...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa says Barack Obama would make a "magnificent" U.S. president.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa says Barack Obama would make a “magnificent” U.S. president….
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa says Barack Obama would make a "magnificent" U.S. president.
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Mundifrases (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
De Mario Vargas Llosa, temática: Incertidumbre
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Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Mohammed Hanif’s debut novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes had already started reminding me of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of The Goat before I saw Hanif's reference to that work in his Acknowledgements page. Not only are both books novelized treatments of the final days and the assassination of a real-life dictator (the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo in the Llosa book, Pakistan’s Zia ul Haq...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Thanks to a late surge of votes from his countrymen, Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen beat out Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, to win a British magazine poll to name the world's number one intellectual. Gulen's popularity in Turkey is already immense and now his message of tolerance and understanding may start to reach the world. - Fazile Zahir...
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Rare Bird Finds (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
When I was in grad school I had to read a book by Mario Vargas Llosa called In Praise of the Stepmother. The newer cover for this novella blocks out the risque bit of the cover artwork, but back in...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Mario Vargas Llosa's Wellsprings.
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Babalu Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
"The hopes awakened by the Cuban revolution have not been realized," So says Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, as quoted in today's Sun-Sentinel on-line edition. He is also quoted as saying: "Cuba is today a poorer country, with huge inequalities...
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klephblog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
ometimes, when the enormity of reality is simply to great a burden for the mind to comprehend, literature can serve as a midwife to understanding. It certainly is the case with Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Death in the Andes . The Peruvian writer's effort to distill the sense of helplessness and horror that gripped his country for the better part of two decades due to a bloody and violent Maoist insurgency...
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Peruvuian author Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most influential writers in Latin America, said history will not absolve ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Copyright © 2008 by PEN/Beowulf Sheehan On October 10, 1995, London's Royal Festival Hall hosted a historic night of readings by three of the world's most distinguished writers: Umberto Eco from Italy, British-Indian Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru. At dinner afterward, Eco anointed the trio as The Three Musketeers . On Friday May 2, 2008, over 12 years later, the PEN World Voices Festival,...
