The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist. By Dwight Garner Once upon a time, during the last quarter of the 20th century ...

At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Mario Vargas Llosa famously punched his soon-to-be ex-friend, novelist Gabriel García Márquez, in the face. Some theorize the ruckus was about Vargas ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his children Álvaro ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate who died this past Sunday, spent the better part of his literary career novelizing the history of Latin America. It's curious ...

He also won myriad awards, including the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died in Lima on Sunday.

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who wrote more than 30 novels including "The Time of the Hero," was one of Latin America's most significant novelists. https://p ...

Lima, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such ...

“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 ...