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

Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific Peruvian novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, died Sunday in Lima, his family said. He was 89.

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 government declared Monday a national day of mourning,