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The jury of the FCGInternational Literature Award at a meeting in Valladolid and composed of thefollowing distinguished personalities: Mrs. Paz Ramos, Mr. Juancho ArmasMarcelo, Mr. Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, Mr. César Hernández Alonso, Mr.Javier Blasco Pascual, with Mrs. Paz Ramos acting as chairwoman and Mr. CésarHernández Alonso as secretary, decided by majority vote to award the FCGinternational literature prize to MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, for his narrative andprose work that have given Spanish literature of the 20th century a universal dimension.
Mario Vargas Llosa
He was born in Arequipa [Peru] on the 20th of March 1936to his first marriage was to Julia Urquidi in 1955 and he got divorced in 1964.
He married Patricia Llosa Urquidi in 1965.
Children: Alvaro (Lima, 1966), Gonzalo (Lima, 1967),Morgana (Barcelona, 1974).
Studies of:
1941-1944 Colegio La Salle, Cochabamba,Bolivia
From first class to fourth class of primary school
1945 Colegio Salesiano, Piura, Perú
Fifth class of primary school.
1946-1949 Colegio La Salle, Lima, Perú
Sixth class of primary school and first andsecond year of secondary school
1950-1951 Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado,Lima, Perú
Third and fourth years of secondary school.
1952 Colegio National San Miguel, Piura, Perú
fifth year of secondary school.
1953-1958 Universidad National Mayor de San Marcos, Lima,Perú.
Literature degree.
1959 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ph.D. (Cum laude) in 1971
Work and academic activity:
1952 Column writer for local newspapers in Piura, Perú.
1955 Journalist for the Turismo and Cultura Peruana magazines and forthe Sunday supplement of El Comercio, head of news on RadioPanamericana, Lima, Peru.
1959 Spanish teacher the Berlitz school, journalist for the France-Presse agency andfor French radio and television, Paris, France.
1965 He formed part of the jury for the House of America awards, La Habana Cuba.
1967 He taught at Queen Mary's College, London University.
Translator for UNESCO in Greece, with Julio Cortázar.
1968 Guest lecturer at Washington State University, United States, during the autumnsemester.
1969 He taught at Kings College, London University and was Guest lecturer at the Universityof Puerto Rico.
1975 He became a member all of the Peruvian Academy of Spanish. A user Guestlecturer in at the Edward Larocque of Tinker chair in Columbia University, theUnited States, during the autumn semester. He was the co-director, alongwith José Maria Gutiérrez, of the cinema version of Pantaleón y lasvisitadoras.
1976 President of the INTERNATIONAL PEN CLUB.
Took up the Simón Bolívar chair at the University ofCambridge, England
1980 Resident writer at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for scholars,Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, the United States
Director of the La torre de Babeltelevision program, Lima, Peru.
1983 Following a request from the president of the Republic he became a member ofthe investigating commission of the events at Uchuraccay, Lima, Peru
1986 He was invited by the Scottish arts Council to give the lecturer as the NeilGunn international fellow.
1988 He gave a seminar about his work as Guest lecturer at Syracuse University
He set up the Freedom movement and became a member of theDemocratic Front (FREDEMO), Lima, Peru.
1989 Presidential candidate for the 1990 Peruvian elections
1991 Given literature course at the Edna Gene and the Jordan Davidson chair atFlorida international University, Miami, the United States
1991-1992 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Germany.
1992 Guest lecturer at the Robert Kennedy chair, Harvard University, the UnitedStates, during the autumn semester
1994 Guest lecturer at Georgetown University. He participated in the"Distinguished Writer in Residence" programme, Washington DC
1995 President of the jury of the Iber-American film Festival in Huelva, Spain.
1997-1998 Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany.
1998 Member of the Instituto Cervantes patronage.
Member of the juryand for the ECHO television and radio awards
Member of the Juryfor the Miguel de Cervantes Award.
He gave a seminar on "Novels andPolitics" in the summer courses of the Menéndez Pelayo internationalUniversity, Santander, Spain.
Guest lecturer at Georgetown University,Washington DC, for the autumn semester.
Member of the Jury for Miguel de Cervantes award, 1999
2001 Summer courses at the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Santander,Spain. Gave a seminar on " History and Fiction: Flora Tristan andPaul Gaugain”
Works
1952 La huída del Inca, play
1957 El Desafio, short story
1959 Los jefes, short story compilation
1963 La ciudad y los perros, novel
1966 La casa verde, novel
1967 Los cachorros, short story
1969 Conversación en La Catedral, short story
"Carta debatalla por Tirant lo Blanc", prologue to the novel by JoanotMartorell.
1971 Historia secreta de una novela
García Márquez: historia de un deicidio,literary prose.
1973 Pantaleón y las visitadoras, novel
1975 La orgía perpetua: Flaubert y Madame Bovary, literary prose.
1977 La tía Julia y el escribidor, novel
1981 La señorita de Tacna, play
La guerra del fin del mundo, novel
Entre Sartre y Camus, prose.
1983 Kathie y el hipopótamo, play
Contra viento y marea, political and literaryprose.
1984 Historia de Mayta, novel
"La suntuosa abundancia", and essayabout Fernando Botero.
1986 Contra viento y marea, volumes I (1962-1972) and II(1972-1983).
La Chunga, play
¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, detective novel
1987 El hablador, novel
1988 Elogio de la madrastra, novel
1989 Translation from the French and prologue to the story by Arthur Rimbaud, calledUn corazón bajo la sotana.
1990 Contra viento y marea, volume III (1983-1990)
La verdad de las mentiras, literary prose
(Tune in tomorrow is released, the filmbased on La tía Julia y el escribidor)
1991 A writer's reality, collection of lectures given at the University ofSyracusa.
1992 "Un hombre triste y feroz", and essay about George Grosz
1993 El pez en el agua, memoirs
El loco de los balcones, play
Lituma en los Andes, novel
1994 Desafíos a la libertad, essays about the culture of Freedom.
Ojos bonitos, cuadros feos, a play written forBBC radio.
1996 La utopía arcaica, José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenes,prose Making Waves, a prose selection from Contra viento y marea(published only in English)
1997 Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, novel; Cartas a un joven novelista,literary prose
2000 La fiesta del Chivo, novel
Nationalismus als neue Bedrohung, selection of politicalessays (published only in German)
El lenguaje de la pasión, a selection of articles fromthe series “Piedra de Toque”, published in El País newspaper, Madrid,and in a series of group publications, between 1992 and 2000.
2001 Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío, published by theUniversidad National Mayor of San Marcos. This was his graduation thesisfrom that University in 1958
His work has been translated into the followinglanguages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, English, German, Dutch,Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgaria, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, Estonian,Slovakian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish,Icelandic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, andMalaysian.
He collaborates with El País newspaper, Madrid,Spain, (Piedra de Toque series) and with the cultural magazine called LetrasLibres, Mexico city, Mexico, which is published monthly (Extemporáneosseries).
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
1952 Second Prize in the III School Theatre Contest of the Public EducationMinistry, for his play entitled La huída del Inca.
Revue Française Award for his short story entitled Eldesafío.
1959 Leopoldo Alas Award (Spain) for his short story collection, Los jefes.
1963 Biblioteca Breve Award, by Seix Barral, the Spanish Critics’ Award andhe came second in the Prix Formentor, for La ciudad y los perros.
1966 Spanish Critics’ Award for his novel La casa verde.
1967 National Novel Award (Peru), for La casa verde and the RómuloGallegos International Literature Award (Venezuela).
1976 He was Awarded the Title of Honorary Member of the Hebrew University ofJerusalem
1977 He was awarded the Silver Medal and the Diploma of Honour of the ArequipaProvincial Council (Peru)
Member of the Peruvian Academy of Spanish(Incorporation Ceremony)
1977 Human Rights Award from the SouthAmerican Jewish Association.
1979 He received the Ramón Godó Lallana Journalism Award, from LaVanguardia Newspaper of Barcelona.
1981 Critics’ Award (Argentina).
He was awarded the Golden Medal of Congreso by theCongress of the Republic of Peru, for his literary career.
1982 Illa Award of the Italian-Latin Americanan Institute of Rome for Latía Julia y el escribidor.
He received the Pablo Iglesias Literature Awardfrom the Chamartín Socialist Group for La guerra del fin del mundo.
1985 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award (France) for La guerra del fin del mundo.
Legion of Honour Award, awarded by the FrenchGovernment.
Prince of Asturias Literature Award (Spain).
Honorary Fellow of the Modern LanguageAssociation of America (USA).
Honorary Member of the American Academy andInstitute of Arts and Letters (USA).
Oficial Insignia of the Order of Arts andLetters, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture.
1988 Golden Medal of the Pan American Society (USA).
The Freedom Award from the Max Schmidheiny Foundation(Switzerland).
1989 The Scanno Award, from Rizzoli Libri (Italy), for his novel Elhablador.
1990 Castiglione de Sicilia Award (Italy).
Doctor Honoris Causa from Florida InternationalUniversity in Miami.
Legion of Freedom, from the Ludwig von MisesCultural Institute (Mexico).
1991 Doctor in Humane Letters from Connecticut College (USA).
T.S. Eliot Award from the Ingersoll Foundationof The Rockford Institute (USA) for creative writing.
1992 Doctor Honoris Causa from the Boston University (USA).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University ofGenoa (Italy).
INTAR 1992 Golden Palm Award from INTAR Hispanic AmericanArts Centre of New York, (USA).
1993 Doctor Honoris Causa from Dowling College (USA).
Doctor HonorisCausa from Francisco Marroquín University (Guatemala).
Planeta Award(Spain), for Lituma en los Andes.
SpanishCitizenship was awarded by the Government of Spain.
Order of Arts andLetters Title, with the grade of Commander, awarded by the FrenchGovernment.
1994 Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Doctor HonorisCausa from Georgetown University (USA).
Doctor HonorisCausa from Yale University (USA).
Doctor HonorisCausa from Rennes University II (France).
Miguel deCervantes Award from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Archbishop Juan deSan Clemente Literary Award inSantiago de Compostela, for Lituma en los Andes.
1995 Jerusalem Award, Israel.
International Literary Award, Chianti RuffinoAntico Fattore, (Florence, Italy), for Lituma en los Andes.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University ofMurcia (Spain).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University ofValladolid (Spain)
Guest of Honour ofthe Province of Santa Fe (Argentina).
1996 Incorporation Ceremony to the Royal Spanish Academy.
Peace Prize, German Booksellers’ Association, Frankfurt BookFair.
1997 Mariano de Cavia Award, from ABC Newspaper, (Spain), for hisarticle entitled "Los inmigrantes" published in El País inAugust 1996.
IllustriousVisitor to the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Doctor HonorisCausa from the University of Lima (Peru)
Golden Pen Award, from the Madrid Writing Club (Spain)
Doctor HonorisCausa from the National University of San Agustín in Arequipa (Peru)
Medal and Diploma of Honour from the Catholic Universityof Santa María in Arequipa (Peru)
1998 Critics’ Circle National Award, in the category of "Critic" for MakingWaves (USA).
Doctor HonorisCausa from Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (Israel).
Guest of Honour ofteh city of Cordoba (Argentina).
Doctor HonorisCausa from University College London (Great Britain).
Honorary Citizenof the city of Asuncion, Paraguay.
1999 Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award, 1999 for his article "Nuevasinquisiciones" published in El País, on 8 November 1998.
XIII International Menéndez Pelayo Award for therevindication of fantasy and for the ethical aspect f his work
Doctor Honoris Causa from Harvard University(the United States).
Medal of the University of California, LosAngeles (UCLA), (the United States).
Jorge Isaacs Award 1999 from the Cali International Art Festival, Colombia.
2000 Diploma of Honour from the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, (Peru) in homage toand recognition of his Alma Mater and by national consensus as "Prohombredel Siglo XX" [Man of the XX Century].
"Cultural Heritage of Humanity" Medalof Arequipa, awarded by the Arequipa Municipality in recognition of hisliterary career and his promotion and defence democracy and human rights.
2001 Recognition Plate and homage ceremony from the Lima Collage of Lawyers, inrecognition if his permanent defence of freedom and law.
Crystal Award of the World Economic Forum(Davos, Switzerland) in recognition of his artistic achievements and hisoutstanding contribution to understanding between peoples.
Honorary Professor of the Peruvian University ofApplied Science (UPC), Lima (Peru), in recognition of his outstanding academia,professional and cultural trajectory in arts, letters and ideas in the field ofhumanities.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the UniversidadNational Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (Peru) in recognition not only of hisnotable literary career but also of his way of continuously interpreting thelife and history o Peru. This distinction is of special significance asit comes from his Alma Mater.
The Americas Award 2000-2001, given by theAmericas Foundation, New York (USA), for his contribution to the cultural andpolitical life in the Americas, by promoting free and democratic societiesbased on justice and respect for all citizens.
He inaugurated the Chair of Iber-AmericanLiterature and Culture in the Spanish and Portuguese Department of GeorgetownUniversity, Washington DC., (USA)
I Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers’ Association for La fiesta del Chivo.
IV Readers’ Award from the Crisol Bookshop Chainfor his novel La fiesta del Chivo.
Son Latinos Festival Award, IV Edition, Tenerife, the Canary Islands, for hislife’s career.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Roma Tor VergataUniversity (Italy).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Pau (France)
DECORATION of the Order of “THE SUN OF PERU”, with theGrade of “Great Diamond Cross”, the highest distinction awarded by the State ofPeru, in recognition of his ethical and civil principles as well as hiscontribution to the re-establishment of a free democratic society in thecountry.
Recognition from the Government of Israel forhis selfless work and dedication and his tireless effort for decades to createties of friendship between the peoples of Peru and Israel.
2002 Doctor Honoris Causa from the National San Antonio Abad del Cusco University(Peru).
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of FrenchPolynesia.
Caonabo de Oro Award, of the Dominican Association of Journalists and Writers(Dominican Republic)
Golden Medal of the city of Genoa, (Italy), awarded bythe Mayor of the city.
Nabokov Award from the PEN American Centre (USA) for his literary trajectory and thewhole of his work