Winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 1986, the Cervantes Prize in 1993, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the acclaim of international critics and audiences with his novels and essays. Along with Julio Cortazar and Gabriel García Márquez, among others, he sparked the most prolific literary movement in Latin America, known as the Boom. In 1973, he published the satirical novel Pantaleón y las Visitadoras (Pantaleon and the Visitors), set in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. It revisits universal themes recurring in his work, such as power, corruption, morality, and sexuality, this time treated in a humorous tone that displays a biting critique of the society of the time and, ultimately, a masterful reflection on human nature.