Walking Mompox’s charming streets is like stepping back in time to a lost and romantic era where little has changed in centuries. It has baroque facades, local legends of supernatural events, and a ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy.

After his parents separated while he was an infant, he moved to Cochabamba in Bolivia with his great-grandparents ... Colombian friend and sometime rival Gabriel García Márquez - who pioneered ...

Lima, Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa, the towering Peruvian novelist, essayist and political figure whose prolific career spanned ...

A universal writer emerging from the complex Peruvian reality, Vargas Llosa was part of the so-called Latin American “boom” alongside other greats such as the Colombian Gabriel García ... by his ...

Peruvian Nobel literature laureate and Latin American literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa has died in Lima at the age of 89. The writer’s son Álvaro Vargos Llosa announced Sunday that his father ...

Picture: AFP Born in the mountain city of Arequipa, Peru, in 1936, Vargas Llosa was raised by a single mother in the middle-class home of his maternal grandparents in Bolivia. They later settled ...

He joined a cohort of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia ... Dora Llosa, and his grandparents. They made up a middle-class family of modest means but patrician ancestry, and ...

Born into a middle-class Peruvian family, Vargas Llosa was one of the greats of the Latin American literary "boom" of the 1960s and 1970s, along with Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and ... Bolivia ...