Fact and fiction circled each other in the works of Mario Vargas Llosa. Through realism, erotica, and even crude slang, the ...

OP/ED: The great Peruvian novelist and classical liberal Mario Vargas Llosa passed away on April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son said Sunday.