For 10 points, name this major figure of El Boom and later Presidential candidate in his native Peru.
One work by this person resulted in a response from his first wife regarding what he didn't say. Another of this writer's works recounts the War of the Quandos. Another militaristic novel by this author contains a thinly veiled portrait of the Leoncio Prado Military Academy. This novelist promoted the theory of what he called the "total novel," which simultaneously exposited all strata of society; his first "total novel" by his own account is Conversion in the Cathedral, which was proceeded by Time of the Hero and followed by The War of the End of the World and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. For 10 points, name this major figure of El Boom and later Presidential candidate in his native Peru.
One work by this person resulted in a response from his first wife regarding what he didn't say.
Mario {Vargas Llosa} [neither accept nor prompt on partial answers]