Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, making them laureate number 107 since the prize was first awarded in 1901.
They are the only writer from Peru to have won the prize.
Our pick for reading Mario Vargas Llosa for the first time is La ciudad y los perros. It is one of the most widely read Nobel books in the world and an easy way in.
The Time of the Hero is set in a military academy in Lima, where cadets live amid discipline, violence and fear after an exam is stolen. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel, and copies were reportedly burned at that very school. It moves like a thriller and is the perfect place to start with him.
One email on announcement day with the winner and where to start reading. Then one Nobel read a month.