winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of Latin America’s greatest writers and a foremost intellectual both in his own country and abroad. In his large oeuvre, such classic novels as The Time of the Hero (1963), Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), the autobiographical Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), and The Feast of the Goat (1996) stand out. In 1990, Vargas Llosa was a candidate in the Peruvian presidential elections. About his campaign, he wrote A fish in the water (1994).