Nobel Prize-winning Author to Visit Georgia
By Mariam Chanishvili
Monday, January 28
Mario Vargas Llosa, an internationally recognized author, journalist and professor and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, will visit Georgia in September 2019 to learn about the local culture and arts.
The author’s meeting is planned not only with Georgian, but also Armenian and Azerbaijani publishers and translators, as well as with Georgian readers and students. Public discussions will also be planned.
The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia.
The Ministry and the Georgian National Book Centre will host the five-day visit.
It is worth mentioning that the presentation of his book “Conversation in the Cathedral” will also take place, which at the moment is being translated into Georgian. The author wrote the book in 1969. The book tells the story of the political situation in Peru under the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría in the 1950s.
Georgian National Book Centre is financially supported with the funds earmarked under the Law of Georgia on State Budget. The Center serves to the interests of the national policy for promotion of Georgian books and literature abroad.
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru's second largest city. During his childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Piura. Vargas Llosa studied law and literature at the University of San Marcos.
One of the most fundamental experiences in his life was a journey he made in the Amazon jungle in 1958, which inspired novels such as The Green House (1966), Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973), The Storyteller (1987) and The Dream of the Celt (2010).
