The distinguished Peruvian author, who won the Nobel Prize and courted controversy most of his life, dies at 89.

Vargas Llosa was one of the greatest of modern Latin American novelists, adapted on several occasions to the big screen.

Vargas Llosa 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, including the 2010 Nobel