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Mario Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010, nació en Arequipa, Perú, en 1936. Aunque había estrenado un drama en Piura y publicado un libro de relatos, Los jefes, que obtuvo el Premio Leopoldo Alas, su carrera literaria cobró notoriedad con la publicación de La ciudad y los perros, Premio Biblioteca Breve (1962) y Premio de la Crítica (1963). En 1965 apareció su segunda novela, La casa verde, que obtuvo el Premio de la Crítica y el Premio Internacional Rómulo Gallegos. Posteriormente ha publicado piezas teatrales (La señorita de Tacna, Kathie y el hipopótamo, La Chunga, El loco de los balcones, Ojos bonitos, cuadros feos, Las mil noches y una noche y Los cuentos de la peste), estudios y ensayos (La orgía perpetua, La verdad de las mentiras, La tentación de lo imposible, El viaje a la ficción y La civilización del espectáculo), memorias (El pez en el agua), relatos (Los cachorros) y, sobre todo, novelas: Conversación en La Catedral, Pantaleón y las visitadoras, La tía Julia y el escribidor, La guerra del fin del mundo, Historia de Mayta, ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, El hablador, Elogio de la madrastra, Lituma en los Andes, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, La Fiesta del Chivo, El Paraíso en la otra esquina, Travesuras de la niña mala, El sueño del celta, El héroe discreto y Cinco Esquinas. Ha obtenido los más importantes galardones literarios, desde los ya mencionados hasta el Premio Cervantes, el Príncipe de Asturias, el PEN/Nabokov y el Grinzane Cavour.
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