Born: 28-Mar-1936
Birthplace: Arequipa, Peru

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: Peru
Executive summary: Conversación en la Catedral

Wife: Julia Urquidi (m. 1955, div. 1964)
Wife: Patricia Llosa (m. 1965, 3 children)
Son: Alvaro (writer)
Son: Gonzalo
Daughter: Morgana

    University: National University of San Marcos
    University: PhD, Complutense University of Madrid (1959)

    Cervantes Prize 1994
    Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1996

Author of books:
Los jefes (1959, short stories)
La ciudad y los perros (1963, novel, trans. The Time of the Hero)
La casa verde (1966, novel, trans. The Green House)
Los cachorros (1967, novel)
Conversación en la catedral (1969, novel)
Panteleón y las visitadoras (1973, novel, trans. Captain Pantoja and the Special Service)
La orgía perpetua (1975, essays, trans. The Perpetual Orgy)
La tía Julia y el escribidor (1977, novel, trans. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter)
La guerra del fin del mundo (1981, novel, trans. The War of the End of the World)
Historia de Mayta (1984, novel, trans. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta)
¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? (1986, novel, trans. Who Killed Palomino Molero?)
El hablador (1987, novel)
Elegio de la madrastra (1988, pornography, trans. In Praise of the Stepmother)
La verdad de las menitras (1990, essays, trans. A Writer's Reality)
Letra de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc (1991)
Lituma en los Andes (1993, novel, trans. Death in the Andes)
El pez en el agua (1993, novel, trans. A Fish in the Water)
El loco de los balcones (1993)
Desafíos a la libertad (1994)
Los cuadernos de Don Rigoberto (1997, novel, trans. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto)
La fiesta del chivo (2000, novel, trans. The Feast of the Goat)
El lenguaje de la pasión (2001, essays)
El paraíso en la otra esquina (2002, novel)

Wrote plays:
La senorita de tacna (1981, trans. The Young Lady from Tacna )
Kathie y el hipopótamo (1983, trans. Kathie and the Hippopotamus )

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