Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, 1936
Mario Vargas Llosa is a writer. He studied literature and law in Lima and worked as a journalist. He broke through with his debut novel, The Time of the Hero (English translation 1969), in 1963. Other classic novels by Vargas Llosa are Conversation in the Cathedral (1969, English translation 1975), the autobiographical Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, English translation 1982),The Feast of the Goat (2000, English translation 2002) and The Dream of the Celt (2010). In 1990, he was a candidate in the Peruvian presidential elections. About his campaign, he wrote the memoir A Fish in the Water (1994). In 2012, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Future of Humanism
Nexus Lecture Mario Vargas Llosa
8 June 2013
14.30 - 17.00
Auditorium Tilburg University

The Return of the Ghosts
Nexus Symposium
11 November 2010
13.30 - 17.45
Auditorium Tilburg University

What Is a Good Society?
Part I. Mass Democracy on Trial
13 November 2005
09.45 - 21.30
Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam

Europe: A Beautiful Idea?
Nexus Conference 2004
4 december 2004
9.00 - 18.10
Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam

The Quest for Life
Part II. Evil
11 June 2002
9.20 - 21.45
Tilburg University

The Quest for Life
Part I. Love and Death
4 February 2001
9.30 - 20.00
Tilburg University