Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa (birth name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa) (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer who is one of Latin America's leading novelists and essayists.

5 Quotes

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas Llosa

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mario Vargas Llosa

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Mario Vargas Llosa

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas Llosa