His family said that Peruvian-born writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima on Sunday at 89. He was one of the leading figures in the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 70s. The death of the Spanish-Peruvian Nobel Prize-winning writer marks the end of the golden generation of Latin American literature, of which Vargas Llosa was the last great representative. In recent months, he had been away from public life in Lima.
"It is with deep sadness that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, died today in Lima, surrounded by his family and in a peaceful atmosphere," his eldest son, Alvaro, wrote on the social network X. There had been much talk in recent months about the writer's deteriorating health.
His works have been translated into many languages, including Armenian: "Harsh Times of Soskal," "Two Solitudes," "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," and "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service."
