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

Vargas Llosa was one of the greatest of modern Latin American novelists, adapted on several occasions to the big screen.

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism and ...

The erstwhile Marxist-turned-free-marketeer wrote historical novels, semi-autobiographical comedies, murder mysteries, ...

A prolific novelist and essayist and giant of Latin American letters for many decades, Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel ...

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and ...

By Simon Romero Mario Vargas Llosa ... Teresa Suarez/EPA, via Shutterstock In addition to the Nobel Prize, Mr. Vargas Llosa was awarded, among other distinctions, Spain’s Miguel de Cervantes ...

Nobel-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, whose vivid novels explored Latin American despotism, corruption and fanaticism and who once ran for president, has died. The literary giant was 89.

Lima, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa ... In a famous incident in Mexico City in 1976, Vargas Llosa punched fellow Nobel Prize winner and ex-friend García Márquez, whom he later ...