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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, died in Lima on April 13. His critics and followers ...
Pope Francis and Mario Vargas Llosa were unique voices that transcended frontiers. Their deaths offer a sharp reminder of the ...
Journalist and author Suleika Jaouad, known for her series "Life, Interrupted," shares how her new book "The Book of Alchemy" ...
Though he held Spanish citizenship, Vargas Llosa remained Peruvian in his civic commitments, literary imagination and ...
The great Peruvian novelist and classical liberal Mario Vargas Llosa passed away on April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.
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Vargas Llosa agreed that when Spanish inquisitors set about suppressing the novel in their new colonies, they were targeting ...
Listen to this bonus episode of a conversation between the Peruvian writer and legendary translator Edith Grossman, recorded ...
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 ...
The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you ...
When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska headed to a film premiere in Mexico City, she had no idea she was about to ...
The Peruvian Nobel laureate championed values unfashionable in Latin America.