Mario Vargas Llosa covered various literary subjects and addressed social issues in his native Peru and other South American countries. At the heart of his novels, which are also interesting from a literary-theoretical point of view, is often the central theme of all Latin American literature, political and military dictatorship, even when he did not address it directly. The Peruvian writer received the Nobel Prize in 2010, and we have been following him with Slovenian translations since the beginning. He rose to the literary stardom in the 1960s and 1970s, and soon after that, some of his brilliant works were translated into Slovenian. This year, our publishing house will also publish a translation of his historical novel The Feast of the Goat, which is also interesting because it can be described as a "novel with a dictator" and at the same time a "novel about a dictator".
Photography: Fiorella Battistini