Mario Vargas Llosa with Paul Holdengräber: A Life in Letters

Mon. May 14, 2018 at 7:00pm EDT
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Legend has it that Mario Vargas Llosa was notified of winning the Nobel Prize while working in the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library. Vargas Llosa has worked on at least two of his novels here—The Storyteller and The Dream of the Celt—and while teaching at Princeton he spent afternoons off here reading. This year, after publishing his novel, The Neighborhood, the titan of contemporary Western literature travels from the stacks to the stage to discuss his life in letters.


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Celeste Bartos Forum The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
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