Chinese dissident who wrote a book critical of the country's leadership has said he fled into exile after being warned against publishing a biography of a jailed Nobel laureate.
This Sunday’s Gospel ends with a very familiar statement, “Many are invited, but few are chosen.” This was often told to us in our early years in the seminary, the grace of vocation, the call to the priesthood.
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has received an honorary prize named for another Nobel winner, the late Saul...
Mario Vargas Llosa was put on the spot right away. Noting that he had written about militarization, human rights and brutality in his novels, a member of the audience asked him what he thought of the current events in the Philippines.
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and his partner, the Philippine-born Spanish socialite Isabel Preysler, slipped quietly into the country last week.
The natural enemy of any dictatorship is literature, said Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa at De La Salle University. In...
A classic piece of literature has a way of changing an aspiring writer’s life. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, in...
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa said reading and literature fostered a critical attitude that could be a potent weapon for...
For Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, reading is a “magical operation” that has allowed him to live multiple lives. “My...
