Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peru Novelist, Dies at 89

Mario Vargas Llosa in Paris in 2023.Photographer: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
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Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose novels explored the military dictatorships and political corruption of Latin America, has died. He was 89.

His son, Alvaro, announced his death on social media, without attributing a cause. Mario Vargas Llosa, a towering figure in literature and politics throughout Latin America, had retired from public life at the end of 2023 and was living in Lima.