Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) is a Peruvian writer, one of the outstanding representatives of Latin American prose, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, the Cervantes Prize and other prestigious prizes, member of the French Academy, Knight of the Legion of Honor. "The City and the Dogs", the first and largely autobiographical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the twenty best Spanish-language novels of the twentieth century, and it is from him, as is commonly believed, that the "boom" of Latin American prose began. However, in the writer's homeland, the fate of the novel was not easy. In 1962, he was awarded the prestigious Spanish Breve Library Prize, and in the same year, the leadership of the military school described in the book branded the novel as defamatory and staged a demonstration ceremony to burn 1,000 copies in the schoolyard. The heroes of the novel are sixteen–year-old cadets of the prestigious Leoncio Prado Military School. Parents send their wayward children here in the hope that strict barrack discipline will knock the crap out of them and help them grow up to be decent people.... From the author of the novel "The Doomsday War". Mario Vargas Llosa is a Nobel Prize winner in literature and one of the most prominent representatives of Latin American prose. — The novel "The City and the Dogs" won the prestigious Spanish prize of the Breve Library and is one of the twenty best Spanish-language novels of the 20th century. It is believed that it was with him that the real "boom" of Latin American prose began. — An edition in the "Exclusive Classics" series — in a convenient pocket format and recognizable design.