NMLP P-020798 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Mario Vargas Llosa · Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) / Faber & Faber (UK) · 1986

First English-language edition, translating Historia de Mayta (Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1984). The Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition is the true first in English; the Faber & Faber UK edition followed and does not precede the US printing.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020798 for "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" by Mario Vargas Llosa (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020798, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).