Popular Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Passes away

On Sunday, popular Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who is a Nobel literature laureate, passed away at the age of 89 years old in Lima.

Llosa most celebrated novels include “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat.” 

He won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The news of his death was announced by his children, saying in a letter posted on X: “It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family."

It added: “His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we hope that they will find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him."

Llosa was born on 28 March 1936, in Arequipa, Peru.

Vargas Llosa started writing early, and he worked as a part-time crime reporter at the age of 15 at La Crónica newspaper. 

He published his first short story collection, The Cubs and Other Stories ("Los Jefes") in 1959. 

In 1963, he published his first novel, The Time of the Hero, which echoed his experiences at a Peruvian military academy and angered the country’s military.