Han Kang’s highly anticipated new book “Light and Thread” shot to the top of bestseller lists across Korea on its first day ...

The writer has died at the age of 89 in Lima surrounded by his family, as communicated by his children. Mario Vargas Llosa ...

Recent stories of note: “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific Peruvian novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, died Sunday in ...

FILE - Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa attends a ceremony where he was given an Honoris Causa degree by Lisbon Nova University, in Lisbon, Portugal, July 22, 2014. (AP ...

Vargas Llosa, born Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. A central figure in the 1960s “Latin American Boom” movement, Vargas Llosa ...

He wrote over 20 novels, the first one appearing in 1959. In 2010, he was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa was also a journalist, essayist, and university professor.

Lima, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant ... and "Feast of the Goat," and won myriad prizes. The Nobel committee said it awarded him in 2010 ...

A giant of Latin American culture, Llosa used powerful imagery and sometimes fantastical storytelling to explore issues of ...

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, gained renown as a young writer with slangy, blistering visions of the corruption, moral compromises and cruelty festering in Peru.

The most prestigious award was undoubtedly the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, which the Swedish Academy awarded him for "his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of ...