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“... Thomas and attended by writers he thought she might admire (Larkin, Isaiah Berlin, V.S. Pritchett, Mario VargasLlosa and Anthony Powell, among others), which Larkin had found tough going. ‘The Thatcher dinner was pretty grisly. Even now I shudder and moan involuntarily. M says: “Is it death again, or Mrs ...”

“... quickly from being a protest artist to a ‘song and dance man’. In his little book on Grosz, Mario VargasLlosa similarly claims him for liberalism. Like Orwell, Llosa writes, he ‘was not a social artist … Grosz’s work is born of a total authenticity.’ Advertising his ...”

“... new literary superstar: charming, intelligent, trilingual, exchanging email addresses with Mario VargasLlosa and fielding calls from Angela Merkel. In reality, Glavinic and Kehlmann are better matched. They are very similar writers, a literary double act: for a recent article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...”

“... novel, Winter in Lisbon. These two strands are sandwiched together in alternate chapters in that Mario VargasLlosa way (though for all I know others did it earlier) that seems mechanical, undemanding, irrational and so perfectly ubiquitous it’s rare to get a single-strand novel going from A to Z these days. Both ...”

“... they want. On this journey, all you have to do is learn to juggle with disparately shaped objects. Mario VargasLlosa turned out to be something of a juggler, and provided a finely balanced introduction to the world of creativity. A novelist who has also entered the sphere of politics; a very public man, neatly suited ...”

“... Union, which would of course make us much more of an American satellite even than we are now. Mario VargasLlosa, who used to be Margaret Thatcher’s admirer, now fears that ‘she will be remembered more as a very bitter Conservative fighting against Europe, and saying absurd things about Europe.’ That fits her ...”

“... photographs. He may no longer even be alive. Nevertheless, according to the Peruvian novelist Mario VargasLlosa, Guzman is ‘the object of religious devotion’ to his Senderista followers and of holy terror to Peru’s middle classes. Nicholas Shakespeare’s fascination with Sendero Luminoso expressed itself in ...”

“... harassed, just because he broke ranks with the Miami orthodoxy. Even so dubious a figure as Mario VargasLlosa is regarded by the Cuban groups as a Communist. Didion’s way with all this, plus the numerous scams and hits run by the Cuban gangs, is to expose them mercilessly, to get her readers angry. But she ...”

“... which he had once been secretary general, began to wonder whether he’d been a police informer. Mario VargasLlosa wrote an ironic tribute to his powers as a fabulator in El País, and two pieces were published suggesting he ought to kill himself. But Marco, who was now 84, wasn’t going quietly. Instead he showed ...”

“... without relying on the equally predatory army. The 1990 presidential election, which pitted Mario VargasLlosa against the agronomist Alberto Fujimori, unfolded against this uncertain backdrop. Having campaigned against the novelist’s platform of harsh neoliberal measures, once in office Fujimori turned around ...”

“... more melancholy creole imaginings of Miguel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas...”

“... uninterrupted, from 1929 to 2000 by stealing elections, buying the press and stubbing out dissent. Mario VargasLlosa called the Mexican system the perfect dictatorship, since it was dressed up in enough elections to pass as a democracy. The PRI of this period is sometimes described by historians as a dictablanda, a ...”

“... society then substantially richer per capita than Brazil is today. In the same year, Fujimori beat Mario VargasLlosa in Peru by attacking his financial orthodoxy with a violence far exceeding any PT discourse today, and then became the architect of a particularly corrupt and cruel version of it. In Argentina, Menem’s ...”

“... and García Márquez: Roa Bastos, Carlos Fuentes, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Fernando del Paso, Mario VargasLlosa and many more. Here, unquestionably, was the pacemaker for the global diffusion of these forms, which, like the concept of the postmodern itself, were invented in the periphery. Not that sources in the ...”