Mario Vargas Llosa House Museum, Arequipa - Peru Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa was born and lived during his childhood in Arequipa. In his birthplace there is currently a museum that traces his life and work through interactive videos, holograms and objects belonging to him. Vargas Llosa is one of the most important and renowned Latin American writers. His worldwide recognition earned him important awards -in addition to the Nobel Prize, he won the Cervantes Prize in 1994- and accolades. His fame made him travel all over the world and for many years he has lived in Madrid, Spain, but he never forgets his origins. A few years ago, the regional government of Arequipa refurbished his birth house and inaugurated there, with the consent and presence of Mario himself, an interactive museum with videos and objects of his public and private life. The tour begins in the room he occupied when he was a child, recounting his early years of life and then moving into his adolescence, youth and adulthood. With videos and holograms where you seem to be seeing Mario himself in person, his travels, thoughts and relationships with other writers are narrated. In his House Museum there is a complete review from his early literary training to his incursion into Peruvian politics and the Nobel Prize for Literature obtained in 2010 -of which a replica can be seen-. Original editions of his books, manuscripts and other personal items are on display. At the back of the house there is also a cinema-theater where works and lectures related to the writer are often shown. What to do at the Mario Vargas Llosa House Museum? Visit Vargas Llosa's birthplace. The beautiful house where Vargas Llosa was born is in a perfect state of preservation and was restored to house
Mario Vargas Llosa House Museum, Arequipa – Peru Nobel Prize
