Mario Vargas Llosa

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A Barbarian at the Olympus: Vargas Llosa Joins the Académie Française

Mario Vargas Llosa has become the first non-Francophone author admitted to the Académie Française — and he arrives not to praise French culture, but to argue with it.

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Sergio Ramírez Takes Vargas Llosa's Chair at the Royal Spanish Academy

Nicaraguan exile and Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez will join the Royal Spanish Academy, filling the seat left vacant by Vargas Llosa's death.