Mario Vargas Llosa, posthumous protagonist of the Buenos Aires International Book Fair

There will be news and visits about the last Latin American Nobel Prize winner in Literature, including one from Peruvian lawyer Pedro Cateriano and Álvaro Vargas Llosa,

the writer's eldest son, to present The Mystery of the Last Stradivarius.

At the next edition of the Buenos Aires Book Fair, an event that has repeatedly hosted the writer Mario Vargas Llosa to a packed house and was scheduled to open the 2011 edition (which sparked the ire of some Kirchnerist intellectuals and officials), there will be news related to the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, who died this Sunday in Lima at the age of 89. In crowded talks in the José Hernández Room, Vargas Llosa was the subject of book presentations, both his own and others'.

On the one hand, copies of Vargas Llosa's articles on Peru will arrive at the Penguin Random House stand at the end of April. These articles are compiled under the title The Country of a Thousand Faces. Writings on Peru, the second volume of the author's journalistic work, with a prologue by Colombian writer and anthropologist Carlos Granés (an unmissable conversation between the two can be seen on YouTube).

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