Llosa was an outstanding figure in the prosperity of Latin American literature in the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and won works such as “Aunt Julia and Auntie in Script”, “Death in the Andes” and “The War of the Doomsday”.
Early on, he abandoned the socialist ideas his peers were working on, and his political and conservative views did not go well with many of the left-wing intellectual classes in Latin America.
Llosa ran for the president of Peru in 1990, saying he wanted to save his country from economic chaos and Marxist insurgency. However, he lost to Alberto Fujimori, an unknown agronomist and university professor at the time, who defeated the rebels but was later sentenced to jail for human rights crimes and corruption.
After his loss, the writer moved to Spain but remained influential in Latin America and criticized the new left-wing leader led by then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
In his novels, dramas and prose, Llosa tells the story from several angles and tries to move back and forth in time and switches the narrator’s form. His work spans genres and establishes his fundamental figures as a generation of writers who led the revival in Latin American literature in 1960. “Feast of Goats” (2000) details the brutal regime of the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo, while “The End of the World” (1981) tells the true story of a fanatical missionary whose flock died in the deadly war with Brazilian troops in the 1890s.
Novels through experience
Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in middle-class parents in Arequipa, Peru. He lives in Lima, the capital of Bolivia and Peru. Later, he made some Madrid but maintained influence in Peru, and he wrote articles about current affairs for the newspaper.
He often writes letters from personal experience and family, often based on his own life and his own life.
His critically acclaimed novel The Time of The Hero (1963), based on his teenage life at a military academy in Lima and his 1993 memoir Fish in The Water In Water, focusing on his 1990 presidential election.
The focus of other works is on the concerns of his country. “The Storyteller” (1987) deals with the conflict between the indigenous and European cultures of Peru, while “The Death of the Andes” (1993) tells the horrible time of the guerrilla movement.
Llosa constantly experiments with perspective and its subject matter. Bad Girl (2006) was his first attempt in a love story and was widely praised as one of his best stories.
In the 1970s, Llosa was a supporter of the Cuban revolution, condemning Fidel Castro and criticizing literary colleagues such as Colombian writers and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In 1976, the two writers had a famous argument and beat each other outside the theater in Mexico City. A friend of Marquez said Llosa was unhappy that the Colombian comforted his wife during estrangement, but Llosa refused to discuss it.
His personal life deserves a novel itself, “Aunt Julia and Screenwriter” (1977) is loosely based on the story of his first marriage to Julia Urquidi when he was 19, who was only 10 years old and was the ex-wife of his mother’s brother.
His second wife was his first cousin, Patricia, but he left her in 2015 after 50 years to stay for singer Enrique Iglesias’ mother, Isabel Preysler. This relationship ends in 2022. He has three children, including Alvaro, and Patricia.
