Mario Vargas Llosa at Ca’ Foscari: ‘La literatura y la vida’

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 2010, will be hosted by Ca’ Foscari on Monday 4th June at 12pm in the Santa Margherita Auditorium, at his conference ‘La literatura y la vida’, where he will receive the Ca’ Foscari Honorary Fellowship. The event is part of the Ca’ Foscari project Nobel Prize Winners take the Stage, organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the University in collaboration with TheBauers and the Fondazione di Venezia

Speakers: Rector Michele Bugliesi, president of the Italian Latin American Studies Association AISI Dante Liano and Susanna Regazzoni, researcher in Latin American language and literature.

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1936. After his theatre debut staged in the city of Piura and Los jefes, and a volume of short stories that won the Leopoldo Alas Award, his literary career achieved notoriety with the publication of Le ciudad y los perros, Biblioteca Breve Award (1962) and the Critica Award (1963). In 1965 his second novel, The Green House emerged, which received the Critica Award and the International Rómulo Gallego Award. Subsequently, he published theatrical texts, studies and critical essays, memoirs, stories and above all, novels. He boasts the most prestigious literary awards; in addition to those already mentioned, the Cervantes Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize, the PEN/Nakobov, the Grinzane Cavour and the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature are noteworthy. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.

The event will be held in Italian and Spanish.

To confirm your attendance please email:  events@unive.it