Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades, has died at 89.

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism and who once ran for president, has died at age 89, according to his family.

Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday at the age of 89. The Peruvian writer was most known for his contributions to Latin American literature, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. His son,