Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
Born: March 28 1936, Arequipa, Peru.
Education: Leoncio Prado military academy, Lima; San Marco University, Lima; Complutense University Madrid (PhD 1959).
Married: Julia Urquidi 1955-64; Patricia Llosa 1965- (two sons, Alvaro and Gonzalo; one daughter, Morgana).
Career: 1951- journalist and writer; 1990 presidential candidate Peru; 2001- professor of Ibero-American literature and culture, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Some books: The Time of the Hero 1963; The Green House 1966; Conversation in the Cathedral 1969; Captain Pantoja and the Special Service 1973; The Perpetual Orgy 1975; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 1977; The War of the End of the World 1981; The Storyteller 1987; A Fish in the Water 1993; Death in the Andes 1993; The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto 1997; The Feast of the Goat 2000.