Mario Vargas Llosa ‘put Peru on the world’s literary map’

Peru mourns Mario Vargas Llosa

The Peruvian flag flew at half-staff Monday as the South American country marked the passing of literary great Mario Vargas Llosa with a day of national mourning. Tributes poured in from around the world as President Dina Boluarte attended a private wake at the Vargas Llosa family home for the novelist and Nobel laureate who died there Sunday aged 89. The remains of the author of such acclaimed works as Conversacion en la catedral (Conversation …

REPORTAGE. The only Nobel Prize for Peru is due to expire this Sunday at the age of 89. In his home country, Mario Vargas Llosa's disappearance sparks mitige emotions.

The Peruvian writer, Nobel Prize winner 2010 and last of the Latin American giants of the so-called "boom" generation, died on Sunday 13 April at 89 years old. A round-up of his work in six novels.

In his speech, delivered under the title of Elogio of Reading and Fiction, at the reception ceremony of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in Stockholm on 7 December 2010, he stated that "literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the boundaries that erect between men and women ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages and stupidity."Mario Vargas Llosa knew what he was talking about. His guiding thread woven and weaved, wi…

The literary and essayistic work of Mario Vargas Llosa, who died on Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, has no parallel in the Spanish letters of the last century. The readers of this newspaper have known it for decades, because in it he wrote, from 1990 to 2023, both his articles of current opinion and his literary criticism. Vargas Llosa’s insatiable intellectual curiosity and the need to get involved in the debates of his time led him to become …

Mario Vargas Llosa the Great

The death of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 1936 - Lima, 2025) marks the end of a Golden Age of Latin American literature. Just as there will not be another generation in Spain like that of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Góngora and Quevedo, in America there will not be another like that of Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo C…