Mario Vargas Llosa: a Nobel winner's life

Mario Vargas Llosa with his second wife, Patricia, in 1967. The pair married in 1965, a year after he divorced his first wife, Julia Urquidi. Vargas Llosa and Urquidi, who was originally his aunt by marriage, eloped in 1955; their relationship is the subject of his 1977 novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Photograph: H John Maier Jr/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Vargas Llosa at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, where he was working as a reporter Photograph: Sigfrid Casals/Cover/Getty Images

Vargas Llosa stood for president in Peru's 1990 elections. He is pictured here on the campaign trail, in the midst of a crowd at a fish market Photograph: H John Maier Jr/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Vargas Llosa (on the right), helmeted and accompanied by four miners, tours a silver mine during his 1990 campaign Photograph: H. John Maier Jr./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Vargas Llosa sits in a TV studio before making a campaign speech while his wife Patricia freshens his makeup Photograph: H John Maier Jr/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

The author speaks with director Joan Olle during a dress rehearsal of a new play, La verdad de las mentiras, in Madrid in 2006 Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

In his capacity as president of the International Foundation for Liberty, Vargas Llosa listens to a speech by Rodrigo de Rato, managing director of the IMF in 2006 at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images

Vargas Llosa pictured in London, in 2007 Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

Vargas Llosa is invested as Doctor Honoris Causa by Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2008. In his speech, he criticised the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and his constitutional amendment project to allow him to seek re-election indefinitely Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images

Vargas Llosa attends a press conference for his book The Liberty and the Life at Guadalajara's book fair in 2009 Photograph: Ivan Garcia/AFP/Getty Images

Vargas Llosa at his home in Lima, Peru in 2009, modelling a suit made from recycled paper to highlight environmental concerns. Photograph: Paolo Aguilar/EPA

The author poses with his new book Sabres and Utopias: Visions of Latin America (Sables y utopias: Visiones de America Latina in 2009) Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images

Vargas Llosa waiting to receive the Don Quixote 2009 award from Spain's King Juan Carlos at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images

Vargas Llosa after receiving his Doctor Honoris Causa title from the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico at the Palacio de Mineria, in Mexico City, September 2010 Photograph: Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images