Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Nobel Prize winner, brilliant storyteller and controversial intellectual, died on 13 April 2025 at the age of 89. Hispano-American literature since the 'boom' has thus lost one of its most authoritative and productive voices. While Vargas Llosa's political interventions sometimes attracted criticism, as a novelist and essayist he produced an incredibly multi-layered oeuvre that has long since become canonical. In addition to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 and many other honours, the Peruvian-born author, who also held Spanish citizenship, was also a member of the Real Academia Española and the Académie française.
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Anyone wishing to commemorate Vargas Llosa in light of his death will find him best in his books and may (re)read such important novels as 'La ciudad y los perros' ('The City and the Dogs', 1963), 'La casa verde' ('The Green House', 1965), 'La fiesta del chivo' ('The Feast of the Goat', 2000) and countless other texts.