Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life

Dazzling and deeply researched, Gerald Martin provides a compelling account of the astonishing and profoundly contradictory life of Mario Vargas Llosa, a literary colossus.

When he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, and in the Spanish-speaking world unchallenged as its greatest living writer and most influential intellectual. He was also indisputably the most controversial: he was never out of the headlines ...