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

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 ...

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

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 was a pillar of the Latin American Boom, along with Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and Carlos ...

That body of work is huge. Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, Vargas Llosa was also with once close friend Gabriel García Márquez ... in Tomorrow,” written by William Boyd ...

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 ...

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Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes ...

"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 Nobel Prize winner had a romantic life worthy of a novel. He married a relative 12 years his senior, then left her for ...