Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. He is one of the leading authors of his generation and has written numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. His most famous works include 'The Time of the Hero', 'Conversation in the Cathedral', and 'The War of the End of the World'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.