Peru. The writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner, is dead

At the age of 89, Mario Vargas Llosa died – a Peruvian novelist, essayist, journalist and politician, winner of the Nobel Literary Award and one of the most influential writers of Latin America. The president of Peru called Llos “the most outstanding Peruvian of all time.”

The message about the writer's death was published by his children – Alvaro, Gonzalo and Morgan Vargas Llos. They said that their father had died with a calm death, surrounded by his family. “His departure will sadden his relatives, friends and readers around the world, but we hope that, like us, they will find relief in the fact that he has survived a long, full of adventure and fruitful life” – we read in the communiqué.

It was also added that, according to the wishes of the deceased, no public ceremony would take place after his death, and his remains will be cremated.

Mario Vargas Llosa is dead

Mario Vargas Llosa, the leading figure of the Latin American literary boom of the 20th century, won the Nobel Prize in the field of literature in 2010 for works such as “Aunt Julia and Skriba”, “Lituma in the Andes” or “The War of the End of the World”.

He was born in 1936 in the city of Arequipa in the south of Peru. The novels published in the 1960s “City and Dogs”, “Green House” and “Conversation in the cathedral” brought him fame. In his novels and essays he told stories from different points of view and experimented with form.

His books often described disturbing relations between leaders and their subjects. The “Festival of the Goat” (2000) describes the brutal regime of the dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo, and “War of the End of the World” (1981) tells the true story of a fanatical preacher, whose flock dies in a lethal war with the Brazilian army in the 1890s.

“The most outstanding Peruvian of all time”

President of Peru Dina Boluarte called Llosa “the most outstanding Peruvian of all time.” “His intellectual genius and huge achievements will remain eternal heritage for future generations,” she wrote.

In 1990, Llosa ran for president of Peru, but lost in the second round with Alberto Fujimori. A disappointed lost writer moved to Spain, but remained influential in Latin America and strongly criticized the new wave of radical leftist leaders under the leadership of the then president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez.