He had also come a long way from his student days in the University of San Marcos when he longed to leave Peru for the heady stimulation of Europe where so many of his favorite novels at the time were set and written. His escape came in after winning a fellowship to pursue a doctoral degree in literature at the University of Madrid.
Nevertheless, although he spent two years in Madrid and several more in Paris working for French radio and television, he continued to think and write about his home-land. As evident from his life and fiction, Vargas Llosa had an intense love-hate relationship with Peru from his boyhood when he first began to write.
He was born on March 28, , in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa. For the first 10 years of his life he lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with his mother and grandparents. He returned to Peru, however, in when his parents, who had divorced shortly before his birth, were reunited. The family settled in Magdalena del Mar, a middle-class Lima suburb.
By the time he was 16 he was working part-time for several Lima tabloids, covering crime stories mainly. His first book, Los Jefes, a collection of short stories, was published in when he was These years proved to be difficult for Vargas Llosa, however, since he and his father did not see eye to eye on Vargas Llosa's writing ambitions. Mario He was born on March 28, in Peru.
His parents were Ernesto Vargas and Dora Llosa , came from a middle class family. They divorced a short time later, the man had deceived his mother, Vargas went with his maternal family to Bolivia and they made him believe that his father was dead.
As a result of Ernesto Vargas's extramarital affair, two children were born, Mario's younger brothers. Tragically, the oldest died at the age of eleven from leukemia; the youngest still alive is a lawyer and an American citizen.
Vargas' grandfather managed to manage a farm in Bolivia, it was there that he started his primary school. In they returned to Peru and was reunited with his father. By order of him, part of his baccalaureate was attended in a military boarding school, in he completed his last year at the San Miguel de Piura school.
In Mario's student grant expired and he went to Paris in the hope that he will be awarded a scholarship again.
Upon arriving in the City of Light, he found out that his request had been denied and he decided to spend some time in France. During this period, Vargas Llosa wrote in abundance. He divorced in , a year later he remarried Patricia Llosa, they had 3 children and visited the City of Light. The book when published was immensely condemned by Peruvian military leaders who burned copies of the book in the courtyard of Leoncio Prado.
Llosa had begun working as a budding journalist a year before his graduation from Leoncio. After dropping out from the academy, Llosa completed his studies in Piura and worked as a journalist at a local newspaper. In , he married Julia Urquidi who was ten years his senior. During his childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Piura, a city in the north of Peru, he believed that his father had died.
However, this was a lie told by his mother to conceal their tortuous separation. At his side, he was to discover fear, injustice and violence for the first time. This period later inspired his novel Conversation in the Cathedral , published in The dominant presence of authoritarianism in both public and private spheres led Vargas Llosa to strongly condemn systems which, in one way or another, sought to inhibit individual initiative and restrict personal freedom.
The inspiration for this novel was the time he spent between and in the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, where he was sent by his father to stifle his literary ambitions through military discipline. He drew on these experiences to write his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter , published in
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