Vargas Llosa

American  

[vahr-guhs yoh-suh, vahr-gahs yaw-sah] / ˈvɑr gəs ˈyoʊ sə, ˈvɑr gɑs ˈyɔ sɑ /

noun

1. Mario born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.

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Vargas Llosa British  

/ ˈbarɣas ˈʎosa /

noun

1. ( Jorge ) Mario ( Pedro ) born 1936, Peruvian novelist, writer, and political figure. His novels include The City and the Dogs (1963), Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), The Storyteller (1990), and The Notebok of Don Rigoberto (1998). In 1990 he stood unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru. He won the Nobel Prize in literature 2010

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Example Sentences

Peruvian novelist with more than 50 titles to his name, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.

From BBC

In 2007, Vargas Llosa became a citizen of Spain, and he never lived in Peru again.

From Los Angeles Times

Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 to a middle-class family in Arequipa in southern Peru.

From BBC

Against all odds, Fujimori won with a 60% majority and soon adopted many of the shock economic measures that he had disparaged Vargas Llosa for advocating.

From Los Angeles Times

Through two volumes and more than 100 characters, Vargas Llosa contemplates the sinister military men who have held power in this country.

From New York Times