Jorge Mario Pedro 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. 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".

- The Time of the Hero 1962 novel military, masculinity, corruption, coming-of-age en

- Conversation in the Cathedral 1969 novel oppression, peru, class, corruption en

- Captain Pantoja and the Special Service 1973 novel satire, sex, military, absurdity en

- The Perpetual Orgy 1975 non-fiction essays, literary criticism en

- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 1977 novel love, youth, writing, comedy en

- The War of the End of the World 1981 novel revolution, historical, utopia, war en

- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta 1984 novel revolution, idealism, oppression, latin america en

- Who Killed Palomino Molero? 1986 novel thriller, mystery, military, corruption en

- The Storyteller 1987 novel latin america, storytelling, anthropology, identity en

- In Praise of the Stepmother 1988 novel eroticism, desire, jealousy, family en

- Three Plays 1990 drama peru, storytelling, desire, identity en

- Cubs & Other Stories 1991 short-stories coming-of-age, machismo, violence, peer pressure en

- A Fish in the Water: A Memoir 1993 biography autobiography, politics, childhood, peru en

- Death in the Andes 1993 novel historical, mystery, love, cannibalism en

- Letters to a Young Novelist 1997 non-fiction essays, writing, style, storytelling en

- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto 1997 novel eroticism, art, desire, jealousy en

- The Feast of the Goat 2000 novel historical, tyrrany, fear, trauma en

- The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary 2000 non-fiction essays, politics, culture, literature, latin america en

- Making Waves 2002 non-fiction essays, politics, literature, latin america en

- The Way to Paradise 2003 novel historical, art, latin america, utopia, revolution en

- The Bad Girl: A Novel 2006 novel obsession, love, identity, desire en

- Touchstones 2007 non-fiction essays en

- In Praise of Reading and Fiction 2011 non-fiction speech, nobel prize en

- The Dream of the Celt: A Novel 2012 novel historical, ireland, africa, colonialism en

- The Discreet Hero 2013 novel honor, corruption, loyalty, fatherhood en