Letters to Young Novelists Author: [Peru] Mario Vargas Llosa Series: Llosa Works Series Douban Rating 9

This is a collection of essays that specifically discusses novel creation talent and writing skills, consisting of twelve letters written by Vargas Llosa to a young novelist who is passionate about writing. In the letters, Llosa shared his lifelong creative ideas and reading experience, and quoted nearly 100 works by more than 80 writers, including Cervantes, Flaubert, Hugo, Hemingway, Kafka, Faulkner, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Robbe-Grillet, Virginia Woolf, Juan Rulfo... and put forward incisive analysis and insights on a series of basic issues about techniques and forms in novel creation.

Mario Vargas Llosa

A famous writer and world master of novels, he is known as the "master of structural realism". He has won many important literary awards around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature: Hemingway Prize in 1985, Prince of Spain's Aliturrias Literature Prize in 1986, Gold Medal of the Americas in 1988, the highest honor in Spanish literature - the Cervantes Prize in 1994, the Jerusalem Literature Prize in Israel in 1999, the Menendez Pelayo International Prize in 2000, was elected President of the International PEN in 1976, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.