When Mario Vargas Llosa, the precocious star of the 1960s "boom" in Latin American fiction, ran for president in 1990 in his native Peru, many of his most avid readers prayed he would lose. As his ...
A celebrated author and Nobel literature laureate with Syracuse University ties is dead at age 89. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, while surrounded by his family, ...
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders ...
FILE — Writer Mario Vargas Llosa in Central Park in New York, Jan. 15, 1986. Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for ...
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