History Creator / MarioVargasLlosa

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* OverprotectiveDad: Mario’s father in ''Aunt Julia'', Cuéllar’s father in “The Cubs”.

He’s also the guy who said that Mexico “is the perfect dictatorship.” Of course, that was back then in 1990. He also [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown got in a fight with his once-friend]] Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[NoodleIncident for some reason]] and they haven’t spoken to each other since then.

He started being a leftist person, and even supported Castro’s government, before he became disillusioned with his dictatorship. Since then, he has allied with more centre-right politics. He competed for the presidency of his country in the early ‘90s, but was defeated by the EnsembleDarkHorse [[PresidentEvil Alberto Fujimori]] [[note]]And if you know something about him, maybe you could see it as a HarsherInHindsight[[/note]]. Disheartened by his loss, Vargas Llosa moved to Spain and became a Spanish citizen. (He's now also officially a Spanish nobleman; the King made him a marquis after Vargas Llosa was awarded his Nobel Prize.) That said, he still spends time in Peru.

* WildMassGuessing: Nobody knows why he fought with García Márquez; both of them avoid the issue on purpose.

Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician and winner of the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. He is a firm believer of WriteWhatYouKnow and tends to [[ShownTheirWork do the research]] of the subject he’s writing about.

He started being a leftist person, and even supported Castro’s government, before he became disillusioned with his dictatorship. Since then, he has allied with more centre-right politics. He competed for the presidency of his country in the early ‘90s, but was defeated by the EnsembleDarkHorse [[PresidentEvil Alberto Fujimori]] [[note]]And if you know something about him, maybe you could see it as a HarsherInHindsight[[/note]]. Disheartened by his loss, Vargas Llosa moved to Spain and became a Spanish citizen, though he still spends time in Peru.

He started being a leftist person, and even supported Castro’s government, before he became disillusioned with his dictatorship. Since then, he has allied with more centre-right politics. He competed for the presidency of his country in the early ‘90s, but was defeated by the EnsembleDarkHorse [[PresidentEvil Alberto Fujimori]] [[note]]And if you know something about him, maybe you could see it as a FunnyAneurysmMoment[[/note]]. Disheartened by his loss, Vargas Llosa moved to Spain and became a Spanish citizen, though he still spends time in Peru.

* IncestIsRelative: He caused a turmoil on his family when he married his uncle's sister-in-law. This is narrated in ''Literature/AuntJuliaAndTheScriptwriter''.

His critics still debate whether he is a modernist or postmodernist. [[InternetBackdraft Better not to get caught in the middle]].

He started being a leftist person, and even supported Castro’s government, before he became disillusioned with his dictatorship. Since then, he has allied with more centre-right politics. He competed for the presidency of his country in the early ‘90s, but was defeated by the EnsembleDarkHorse [[PresidentEvil Alberto Fujimori]] [[note]]And if you know something about him, maybe you could see it as a FunnyAneurysmMoment[[/note]].

He’s also the guy who said that Mexico “is the perfect dictatorship.” Of course, that was back then in 1990. He also [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown got in a fight with his once-friend]] GabrielGarciaMarquez [[NoodleIncident for some reason]] and they haven’t spoken to each other since then.