- Category:
- Richest Celebrities › Authors
- Net Worth:
- $500 Thousand
- Birthdate:
- Mar 28, 1936 (88 years old)
- Birthplace:
- Arequipa
- Gender:
- Male
- Profession:
- Writer, Politician, Novelist, Journalist, Author, Essayist, Professor
- Nationality:
- Peru
What is Mario Vargas Llosa's Net Worth?
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, journalist, politician and college professor who has a net worth of $500 thousand. Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru in March 1936. Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. He is one of the leading writers of his generation as well as in Latin America. Llosa is part of the Latino American Boom movement. He became famous in the 1960s for his novels The Time of the Hero, The Green House, and Conversation in the Cathedral.
Llosa's books Captain Pantoja and the Special Serve and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter have been adapted to become feature films. He initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro but later changed his opinions. Llosa ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 but lost. He coined the phrase "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship" in 1990. His latest works include The Discrete Hero and Notes on the Death of Culture.
