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Biography
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Awards & recognition
- Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá · 2019
- honorary doctor of the University of Miami · 2018
- Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit · 2018
- Hayek Medal · 2016
- honorary doctorate of the University of Burgos · 2016
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- Library of Congress Living Legend · 2016
- Don Quijote Journalism Prize · 2015
- gold Medal of the Community of Madrid · 2015
- Carlos Fuentes International Prize — Literary Creation in the Spanish Language · 2012
- honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria · 2012
- Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle · 2011
- St. Louis Literary Award · 2011
- Alfonso Reyes International Prize · 2010
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 2010
- Viareggio-Versilia International Prize · 2010
- honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University · 2009
- honorary doctorate of the University of Granada · 2009
- Premio Ceppo Pistoia · 2009
- Freedom Prize · 2008
- honorary doctor of the University of Alicante · 2008
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca · 2008
- honorary doctorate of the University of Reims · 2007
- Maria Moors Cabot Prizes · 2006
- Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío · 2006
- Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin · 2005
- honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University · 2005
- Irving Kristol Award · 2005
- Caonabo de Oro Award · 2002
- Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of the Sun of Peru · 2001
- honorary doctor of the University of Pau · 2001
- honorary doctorate from University of French Polynesia · 2001
- honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos · 2001
- Menéndez Pelayo International Prize · 1999
- Ortega y Gasset Awards · 1999
- Mariano de Cavia' Price · 1997
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism · 1997
- Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association · 1996
- honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia · 1995
- honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid · 1995
- Jerusalem Prize · 1995
- honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2 · 1994
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize · 1994
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 1993
- Premio Planeta de Novela · 1993
- Scanno Prize · 1989
- Officer of Arts and Letters · 1987
- Grinzane Cavour Prize · 1986
- Princess of Asturias Literary Prize · 1986
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 1985
- Castilian Narrative Critic Award · 1967
- National Culture Award · 1967
- Prix Formentor · 1967
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize · 1967
- Castilian Narrative Critic Award · 1964
- Premio Biblioteca Breve · 1962
- Austrian Decoration — Science and Art
- honorary doctor from the NOVA University Lisbon
- honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
- Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral
- Order of Christopher Columbus
- Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa
