Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian author and Nobel laureate who significantly impacted Latin American literature, has died at the age of 89. His family announced his peaceful passing in Lima ...

As much a novelist of ideas as a storyteller of psychological and political nuance, Mario Vargas Llosa was a central figure of the Latin American Boom, alongside Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar ...

MEXICO CITY – Thinking of the Peruvian Nobel laureate author Mario Vargas Llosa just a few weeks before he died at the age of 89, I remembered a poem that has been sung at the Passover Seder ...

With his death, Mario Vargas Llosa has closed the door on the most splendid era of our literature. The light, however, will remain on. HAVANA TIMES – In a lecture some years ago at Casa de América in ...

Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP/Jon Elswick/AP The most striking thing you can say about Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel laureate in literature who died ...

Peruvian-Spanish author and 2010 Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa passed away Sunday at the age of 89. Across a career spanning more than six decades, he became one of the most formidable voices in ...

“At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?” So begins the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa’s 1969 masterpiece, Conversation in the Cathedral. What made the opening so famous and effective ...

There was a stoic soldier in Mario Vargas Llosa’s soul – always ready to respond to evil with imagination, irony, humor, intelligence, and an inexhaustible moral combativeness. Over many decades of ...

Garcia Marquez's friend, Peruvian literary sensation Mario Vargas Llosa, was also attending the event. Smiling, Garcia Marquez went to greet his fellow writer, "but Vargas Llosa punched him in ...

Mario Vargas Llosa had known for almost five years that he was going to die. His doctors told him in the summer of 2020. According to the writer’s closest associates, one of the first things the Nobel ...

When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska headed to a film premiere in Mexico City, she had no idea she was about to witness the literary fight of the century as two future Nobel laureates ...

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