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He ran for president of Peru in 1990 against Alberto Fujimori, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory after leading for most of the race. Vargas Llosa moved to Spain soon after, eventually ...
Mr. Varadarajan’s portrayal of Vargas Llosa’s 1990 electoral loss as a matter of racial aesthetics is dismissive of Peruvian voters’ political agency. Alberto Fujimori’s appeal rested on ...
Robert E McGinnis, an illustrator whose lusty, photorealistic artwork of curvaceous women ... to fill the shoes of its illustrator Alberto Vargas, who drew the magazine’s signature “Vargas ...
Vargas Llosa agreed that when Spanish inquisitors set about suppressing the novel in their new colonies, they were targeting a subversive art form ... soon-to-be dictator Alberto Fujimori.
In his work, however, Vargas Llosa the polemicist yielded to the artist who turned the utopian ... His failure, at the hands of Alberto Fujimori’s crooked but cunning brand of populism, would ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian author and Nobel laureate who significantly impacted Latin American literature, has died at the age of 89. His family announced his peaceful passing in Lima ...
In the brittle dawn of 1990, as Peru's economy haemorrhaged and Shining Path guerrillas carved their nihilism into the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa, a man who had spent decades wrestling dictators ...
Vargas Llosa also used his literary talents to write several successful novels about the lives of real people, including French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and his grandmother ...
In a COVID-19 anthology, And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, in which 50 writers from around the world responded to the rampaging virus, Mario Vargas ... He lost to Alberto Fujimori ...
(He lost to Alberto Fujimori ... One could argue that all of Vargas Llosa’s work springs from a distrust of unchecked power, and that his art remained political even when his politics weren ...