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  • NAME: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
  • OCCUPATION: Author
  • BIRTH DATE: March 28, 1936 (Age: 76)
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Arequipa, Peru
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

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Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has written many novels that reflect on Peruvian society and politics.

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Born in Peru in 1936, prolific novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has written a great deal about the society and politics of his home country and made an unsuccessful bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.

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