Masterful profile by @valdesmarcela of Vargas Llosa.
He may well be the last of his kind: a towering figure in both the worlds of Spanish politics and letters, who can change the conversation with an essay.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-elder-statesman-of-latin-american-literature-and-a-writer-of-our-moment.html …
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In Japan, long-time (now ex-) mayor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara got his start as a novelist. His early novels are up there with Mishima, whose political leanings he shares (ie far-right).
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Fuentes in the spanish-speaking world? And certainly in some smaller languages/countries (Kadare, Saramago?)
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BHL is a joke for 99% of French people.
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