Vargas Llosa sees himself as commoner, not marquis

He said receiving the noble title was "a huge surprise because if there is something that never entered my head it is that I would be made a marquis."
The author of novels ranging from "Conversation in the Cathedral" to "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" and "Feast of the Goat," Vargas Llosa is one of the leading lights of a Latin American literary boom that burst onto the scene in the 1960s.
The king granted him the title of Marquis for "don Jorge Mario Vargas Llosa's extraordinary contribution, which is universally appreciated, to Spanish literature and language."
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