The Spanish-Peruvian writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2010, author of masterpieces such as "Conversación en la Catedral," died in Lima at the age of 89.
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa died this Sunday in Lima, according to his children Álvaro, Gonzalo, and Morgana in a statement that did not provide further details about the serious illness he had suffered since 2019. Born in Arequipa on March 28th, 1936, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner for literature had just turned 89. Author of fundamental works such as "Conversació en la Catedral," "La ciudad y los perros”, and "La fiesta del chivo," he was one of the most important writers of contemporary literature in any language.
A novelist, essayist, polemicist, columnist, and academic, Vargas Llosa will go down in history as an extraordinary storyteller and an influential intellectual of the old school, that is, before social media.
