WRITER

Mario Vargas Llosa

1936 - 2025

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Vargas Llosa has received more than 2,841,616 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Mario Vargas Llosa is the 208th most popular writer (down from 188th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Peru (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Writer.

Mario Vargas Llosa is most famous for his novel, The War of the End of the World.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 208 out of 7,302. Before him are Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, and Stéphane Mallarmé. After him are Imre Kertész, Anacreon, Johanna Spyri, Sigrid Undset, Maurice Leblanc, and Carlo Goldoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 8. Before him are Silvio Berlusconi, Václav Havel, Sepp Blatter, Alan Alda, Yves Saint Laurent, and Barry Barish. After him are Robert Redford, Ken Loach, Mikhail Tal, Amancio Ortega, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Andrei Chikatilo. Among people deceased in 2025, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 2. Before him is Pope Francis. After him are David Lynch, Gene Hackman, Boris Spassky, Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Sam Nujoma, Horst Köhler, George Foreman, Aga Khan IV, and Val Kilmer.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 3 out of 287. Before him are Atahualpa (1502), and Lina Medina (1933). After him are Isabel Allende (1942), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Alberto Fujimori (1938), Túpac Amaru (1545), Manco Cápac (1250), Rose of Lima (1586), Pachacuti (1380), and Túpac Amaru II (1738).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Mario Vargas Llosa ranks 1. After him are Isabel Allende (1942), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), José María Arguedas (1911), Ricardo Palma (1833), Ciro Alegría (1909), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), and Alfredo Bryce (1939).

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