Global Comment’s Book Club: May 2025 - Global Comment

The Colombian novelist recalled that Mario Vargas Llosa dedicated his work to revealing how politics and history impact on private life. In addition, he highlighted his role in the literary boom and his fight against false narratives of power. Vargas Llosa’s death marks the closure of a generation fundamental to Latin American literature.

It is the first book after the death of Mario Vargas Llosa last April, a work that the biographer managed to read. Its author is Pedro Cateriano: Biography in Politics. Mario Vargas Llosa, his other great passion (Planeta, 2025), 459 pages. As his title indicates, it addresses the Peruvian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, based on his convictions and actions in the political world, from the young revolutionary to a liberal man who was (or “wha…

Global Comment’s Book Club: May 2025 - Global Comment

In April, the literary world bid farewell to one of its most influential voices: Mario Vargas Llosa, a master of narrative, political insight and human complexity. Vargas Llosa leaves behind a monumental body of work that redefined Latin American literature and earned him global recognition, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, the Cervantes

Mario Vargas Llosa is not only one of the great novelists of universal literature, but also an extraordinary essayist and critic, whose exercise he has reflected in many articles and various books, to which we devote today a special attention. SEE MORE: Danilo, Capuli, Vallejo and his landTHE PEZ IN THE WATER (1993)In this exhaustive and vigorous book, the author refers two primordial stages of his life: the first, between 1946 —years of his chi…

The Queen Letizia will inaugurate this Friday the 84th edition of the [[LINK:TAGtag633614495c059a26e23f7863Feria del Libro de Madrid,]] citation that will be "illuminated" by the city of New York and that will have tributes to authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Carmen Martín Gaite, Federico García Lorca, Paul Auster, Ana María Matute or Gabriela Mistral. Thus, there will be a total of 365 cassettes, 7 more than in the previous edition of 2024, …

After the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Madrid Book Fair decided to pay homage to the Nobel Prize in Literature in its 84th edition.