Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life

"Could any biographer have been better suited to this gargantuan undertaking?" -The New York Times, on Gerald Martin's Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life

The long-awaited biography of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize–winning literary colossus and debonair provocateur whose contradictory life is rendered here in astounding detail.

By the time he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, considered to be perhaps the gre...