Mario Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician. Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero, The Green House (1968), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (1975). He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982), have been adapted as feature films. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize Less