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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Cesar Vallejo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Hernando de Soto Polar, Blas Valera, Manuel Quimper, Ricardo Palma, Academia Antartica, Jose Maria Arguedas, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Francisco Garcia Calderon Rey, Gisela Valcarcel, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Gonzalo Rodriguez Risco, Jose Santos Chocano, Diego Valverde Villena, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Abraham Valdelomar, Juan de Espinosa Medrano, Alfredo Bryce, Clemente Palma, Carlos Yushimito, Cesar Miro, Teodoro Nunez Ureta, Jaime Bayly, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Mariano Melgar, Jorge Eielson, Carlos Thorne Boas, Blanca Varela, Angelica Palma, Eric Frattini, Manuel Scorza, Santiago Roncagliolo, Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Jose Luis Mejia, Martin Adan, Guillermo Thorndike, List of Peruvian writers, Marco Martos Carrera, Antenor Orrego, Cesar Calvo de Araujo, Manuel de Mendiburu, Sergio Bambaren, Jose Watanabe, Gamaliel Churata, Mateo Rosas de Oquendo, Luis Jochamowitz, Sebastian Salazar Bondy, Drago Montalban, Jose Maria Eguren, Federico Barreto, Jose de la Torre Ugarte y Alarcon. Excerpt: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (Spanish pronunciation: born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, l...