Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa taught at FIU

Mario Vargas Llosa, this year’s Nobel Prize winner in Literature, received an honorary doctorate of letters degree from Florida International University in 1990 and taught in the Department of Modern Languages in 1991.

Peruvian novelist and one-time presidential candidate co-taught a graduate-level literature course.  Politics and international relations professor Eduardo Gamarra, whose office was next to the Nobel Laureate, comments on Vargas Llosa’s political relevance and his eventual shift from a left-leaning approach to politics to a leading thinker with a right-of-center perspective.