Mario Vargas Llosa

In Praise of the Stepmother is an erotic novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Published in 1988, it is about a sexually open couple whose fantasies lead them to the edge of morality.

Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of …

The Temptation of the Impossible is a book-length essay by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. An English translation was published in 2007 and is reviewed in Graham Robb, "In His Nightmare City" The New York Review of Books 54/11 : 52-54.