When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska headed to a film premiere in Mexico City, she had no idea she was about to ...

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When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska headed to a film premiere in Mexico City, she had no idea she was about to witness the literary feud of the century as ...

Personal details are boring and worth skipping. Suffice it to say life was changed, with a job transfer and admission to a university after that friend’s suggestion. The book was ‘ Conversation in The ...

"Learning to read was the most important thing that happened to me in life. If I became a writer, it was because of the extraordinary pleasure I found in reading and the adventures I ...

The 1960s literary movement travelled from Spanish and Portuguese to the English-speaking world on the back of acclaimed ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning author who ran for president in his native Peru and wrote vivid novels that ...

He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...