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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:48:32.848Z

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description: "A Peruvian novelist who spent six decades mapping how power crushes individuals, then tried to seize it himself — and lost spectacularly. The 2010 Nobel laureate began as a champion of revolution and ended as its fiercest critic, writing monumental fictions while stumping for the right across two continents."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Vargas Llosa broke into international view in the 1960s with The Time of the Hero, The Green House, and the sprawling Conversation in The Cathedral, novels drawn from his Peruvian life and its suffocating hierarchies. The Nobel committee would later cite his "cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He supported Castro's Cuba early on, then turned hard against it after poet Heberto Padilla's imprisonment in 1971, drifting toward classical liberalism. In 1990 he ran for Peru's presidency on a platform of free-market reforms and lost in a landslide to Alberto Fujimori. He kept writing — comedies, thrillers, historical novels — and kept winning: the Cervantes in 1994, the Nobel in 2010, a Spanish marquessate in 2011, a seat in the Académie Française in 2021. He died in April 2025, having outlived the Boom and most of its debates.