Mario Vargas Llosa makes his debut as an actor at 78

Nobel-winning novelist prepares for ‘terrifying’ appearance in his own play, Tales of the Plague

The Nobel prize-winning Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is making his debut as an actor next week in the premiere of his latest work in Spain.

In Tales of the Plague, his adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, the 78-year-old Vargas Llosa plays Duke Ugolino, a 14th-century nobleman.

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