Álvaro Vargas Llosa

Álvaro Vargas Llosa (born 18 March 1966) is a Peruvian-Spanish writer and political commentator on international affairs with emphasis on Latin America. He is also the writer and presenter of a documentary series for National Geographic Channel on contemporary Latin American history that is being shown around the world.

Vargas Llosa is the eldest son of writer and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa (and his father’s heir apparent to the Marquisate of Vargas Llosa) and his wife Patricia Llosa. He is the brother of UNHCR representative Gonzalo Vargas Llosa and photographer Morgana Vargas Llosa. He is married, has a son and a daughter, and lives in Washington, D.C. He holds both Peruvian and Spanish nationalities.

Álvaro Vargas Llosa is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, who has been a nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, and is the author of the book Liberty for Latin America, which obtained the 2005 Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for its contribution to the cause of freedom. He was recently appointed Young Global Leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Vargas Llosa was born in Lima in 1966 and received his B.Sc. in international history from the London School of Economics. He has been a member of board of the Miami Herald Publishing Company as well as op-ed page editor and columnist, and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the BBC World Service, Time, Granta, El País, the International Herald Tribune, Investor's Business Daily, and other media outlets. In addition, Vargas Llosa has been a commentator at Univision TV, news director at RCN Radio, London correspondent for Spain's ABC daily newspaper, commentator at Radio Nacional de España in Madrid, host of the weekly TV program Planeta 3 that aired in twelve Latin American countries for five years, and columnist at La Nación (Argentina), El Nacional, Reforma (Mexico), El Tiempo, El País, and El Listín Diario (Dominican Republic).

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