Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and nearly became president of his country, died on Sunday aged 89.

A prolific novelist and essayist and giant of Latin American letters for many decades, Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel ...

Lima, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa ... In a famous incident in Mexico City in 1976, Vargas Llosa punched fellow Nobel Prize winner and ex-friend García Márquez, whom he later ...

LIMA, April 14 (Reuters) - Peruvians mourned the death on Monday of lauded writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a former presidential candidate. Peru's ...

He entered Peru’s San Marcos University to study literature ... Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, gives a speech at the Swedish Academy.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you ...

Seven environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 21. Known as the ...

A leading light in the 20th-century Latin American literature boom, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for literature ... In 1990, he ran for president of Peru, saying he wanted to save his country ...

LIMA, Peru—Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning author who ran for president in his native Peru and wrote vivid novels that explored themes of despotism, corruption and fanaticism in ...

April 14 (UPI) --Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific Peruvian novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature ... political repression or unrest in Peru, NPR said. The Nobel Swedish ...

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, gained renown as a young writer with slangy, blistering visions of the corruption, moral compromises and cruelty festering in Peru.