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Peruvian writer and Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died yesterday at the age of 89, his family announced, ending the era of Latin America's literary golden generation. "It is with ...
Llosa’s works comprise novels, plays, essays, literary criticisms, and journalism. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of ...
It was praised by the Nobel Prize Committee for its depiction of “the structures of power” and “images of the individual resistance, revolt and defeat.” Blessed by dashing Latin looks ...
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has died aged 89, after a career spanning decades that produced dozens of works, courted controversy, provoked powerful interests in his native Peru and earned him ...
Shortly after his Nobel Prize win, he told NPR that literature is about more than politics — it is about life in all its dimensions. In recent years, he attracted criticism for comments about ...
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 ...
LIMA, April 13 (Reuters) - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and nearly became president of his country, died ...
He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won myriad prizes. The Nobel committee ...