“‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.”

Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician

Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Born in 1936, he became one of the major Latin American writers of his generation, and his work reached a wide international audience. He has 73 quotes on the site. He was especially noted for novels and essays that examine power, conflict, and the fate of the individual under pressure. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for writing about structures of power and for his vivid portrayals of resistance, revolt, and defeat.