Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature'for his cartography of structures of power and histrenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, anddefeat.' He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, theSpanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor.His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise ofthe Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. John King (translator) is the co-editor of The CambridgeCompanion to Mario Vargas Llosa, and he has edited andtranslated several volumes of Vargas Llosa's essays, includingMaking Waves and Touchstones.