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, has died at age 89, according to his family.

The distinguished Peruvian author, who won the Nobel Prize and courted controversy most of his life, dies at 89.