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Gerald Martin

Biography

Gerald Martin

Gerald Martin is Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and a former president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. His publications include JOURNEYS THROUGH THE LABYRINTH: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century and GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: A Life. He has visited or resided in all the nations of Latin America, as well as France, Spain and the United States, and currently lives in Hampshire in the United Kingdom.

Gerald Martin

Books by Gerald Martin

Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life
by Gerald Martin - Biography, Nonfiction

By the time he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, considered to be perhaps the greatest contemporary writer and most influential intellectual in the Spanish-speaking world. He also was indisputably the most controversial: He was never out of the headlines in more than six decades of literary and political activity, from the moment he exploded onto the cultural scene in the early 1960s with his first novel, THE TIME OF THE HERO, until his last, I GIVE YOU MY SILENCE, in 2023. Handsome, debonair and almost incomparably ambitious, Vargas Llosa's personal life was as head-turning as his politics, rendered here in outrageous detail.