Which Peruvian author wrote the novel 'The Green House'?

Which Peruvian author wrote the novel “The Green House”? Mario Vargas Llosa wrote it.

First published in 1966 as La casa verde, The Green House was Vargas Llosa’s second novel and an important work of the Latin American Boom. Its setting shifts between Piura, a dry coastal city in northern Peru, and the Amazonian jungle near the Marañón River. The narrative spans roughly four decades and interweaves several storylines rather than presenting events in straightforward chronological order.

The title refers to a brothel in Piura, remembered by Vargas Llosa from his childhood. The author later drew additional material from a 1958 journey through the Peruvian jungle, including stories about isolated communities, military authority, missionaries, and figures living along the river. This blend of personal memory, travel observation, and formal experimentation gives the novel its layered structure.

Readers sometimes confuse the book with Vargas Llosa’s first novel, The Time of the Hero, published in 1963. The Green House is distinct for its multiple narratives, abrupt shifts in time, and movement between coastal and jungle Peru. It won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize.