Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose epic novels probed the moral depravity of authoritarian rule in Latin America and who sought to remedy social ills — as he insisted ...

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 ...

News Nation/World Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89 Writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks to reporters in New York, Oct. 7, 2010. Credit: AP/Seth Wenig ...

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born March 28, 1936, in Peru’s southern city of Arequipa, high in the Andes at the foot of the Misti volcano. His father, Ernesto Vargas Maldonado, left the ...

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, Gonzalo ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose novels explored the military dictatorships and political corruption of Latin America, has died. He was 89.

Mario Vargas Llosa Dies: Peruvian Literary Giant Was 89Born on March 28, 1936, in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa, Vargas Llosa spent his early childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with his ...

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, it was ...

Critic’s Notebook: Mario Vargas Llosa’s work and life push boundaries By David L. Ulin Oct. 8, 2010 12 AM PT Los Angeles Times Book Critic ...

Mario Vargas Llosa the Politician Shows Up to Talk About His Nobel Prize Published Oct 07, 2010 at 5:30 PM EDT Updated Oct 08, 2010 at 7:48 PM EDT ...

Peruvian Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa (left) receives the Nobel Prize in Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Concert Hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2010.

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CIARÁN GILES LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son ...