Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday, 14 April, 2025, aged 89.

The Nobel laureate died in Peru's capital Lima surrounded by his family and "at peace," his son Alvaro Vargas Llosa, a well-known political commentator, said on X.

Rumors of the writer's deteriorating health had spread in recent months, during which he had been living out of the public eye.

Vargas Llosa was a leading figure in Latin America's1960s literary scene. He continued to write novels and essays for decades, with his works being translated into many languages.

Vargas Llosa was granted honorary doctorates, prizes and awards worldwide throughout his lifetime. The most prestigious award was undoubtedly the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, which the Swedish Academy awarded him for "his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."

"We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life," said........

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