(Arequipa, 1936) Peruvian writer, politician and journalist, who has also had Spanish nationality since 1993. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. As well as his prolific output, he has written articles for a wide range of newspapers. He was a presidential candidate in Peru at the 1990 elections with the centre-right political coalition, Frente Democrático. His literary work began to attract attention with the publication of La ciudad y los perros (1963), which won the Biblioteca Breve Prize and the Critics’ Award. In 1965 his second novel, La casa verde, was published and won the Critics’ Award and the Rómulo Gallegos International Prize. Since then he has published, plays, essays, memoirs, short stories and, above all, novels. He has won many major literary prizes, including, apart from those mentioned, the Cervantes Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, the PEN/Nabokov Prize and the Grinzane Cavour Prize. His latest work is entitled La llamada de la tribu and is an "intellectual autobiography" that talks about his road from Marxism to liberalism.
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