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Mario Vargas Llosa, in conversation

Mario Vargas Llosa in conversation with Professor Efraín Kristal and Professor Michael Wood FBA on 6 June 2012.

Literature • Mario Vargas Llosa

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Published in British Academy Review, Issue 20 (Summer 2012).

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