"Mario Vargas Llosa" has been shared to the blog from the Spanish reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your Spanish listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the Spanish listening exercises section.
Spanish online reading and listening practice – level A2
Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian writer who sadly passed away on April 13, 2025. He rose to fame in the 1960s, becoming a leading member of the Latin American Boom. Notably, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 and one of his books, the partly-autobiographical Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, was the basis for the film Tune in Tomorrow starring Keanu Reeves. Discover more about Vargas Llosa’s literary life in our bilingual reader below.
This reading and listening exercise can help you practise El Pretérito Indefinido, El Pretérito Imperfecto and gender of nouns ending in -umbre, -ión, -dad, -tad, -itis and -sis.
Text and audio by Silvia Píriz.
Exercise: Mario Vargas Llosa
Listen to the audio, then read the transcript. Click any phrase for the translation and links to related grammar lessons which you can add to your Kwiziq notebook to practise later.
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