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Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa has died at the age of 89. He passed away in Lima, Peru. Llosa turned 89 on March 28. The news was announced by his son, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, on social media.
"With deep sorrow, we inform you that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, died today in Lima, surrounded by family and in peace ," his son wrote.
According to the family's wishes, the funeral will be private and, according to his will, his remains will be cremated.
The Peruvian writer and playwright was considered one of the greatest contemporary novelists and essayists. In addition to the Nobel Prize in 2010, he has received numerous awards, including a prestigious award in 1994. Among his most famous novels are: "The City and the Dogs" (1963), "The Green House" (1966), "Conversation in the Cathedral" (1975).
Vargas Llosa returned to live in Lima in 2022, after a long period of residence in Europe since 1990, when he ran in Peru's presidential elections as the candidate of a center-right coalition.
One of the most significant voices in South American literature, he achieved fame with the realistic novels "The City and the Dogs", a brutal and realistic (partly autobiographical) description of life in the military college of Lima, and "The Green House", a novel set in a brothel in the Peruvian province.
In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of power structures and his sharp images of resistance, revolt, and individual defeat."
His later novels are characterized by a deep look at the relationship between reality and fiction, in which eroticism was often one of the most dominant motifs. His theatrical output was also abundant.
Peruvian President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra expressed her condolences to Vargas Llosa's family, who wrote in a post on social media: "Rest in peace, the outstanding Peruvian of all time."
"His intellectual genius and great work will remain an eternal legacy for future generations. We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends and the world of literature ," Peru's presidential office said in a statement on X.
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