Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, is born
Peruvian novelist and unsuccessful presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa is born.Llosa who built his fame as a writer on works ranging from novels to plays to critical essays was educated in Bolivia where his grandfather was Peruvian consul.He attended military school in Lima and began to publish short stories in the early 1950s.
At San Marco University in Lima he became an avid Communist but his later politics became increasingly conservative.From 1959 to 1966 he lived in Paris and published his first novel The Time of the Heroes (1963).In 1966 he published The Green House and the following year produced The Cubs and Other Stories.After 1966 he lived in England the U.S.
and Spain and returned to Peru in 1974 where he wrote several bestsellers.In 1990 he ran unsuccessfully for president of Peru.In 1994 he received the Cervantes Prize the most prestigious international award for Spanish-language literature.
