Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, 89, dies in Peru

Peruvian writer and Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday at the age of 89, his family announced, ending the era of Latin America's literary golden generation.

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“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,’ his eldest son Alvaro wrote in a message on X also signed by his siblings Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa.

Born into a middle-class Peruvian family, Vargas Llosa was one of the greats of the Latin American literary “boom” of the 1960s and 1970s, along with Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Argentina's Julio Cortazar.

Rumours of the writer’s deteriorating health had spread in recent months, during which he had been living out of the public eye.

In October, his son Alvaro said he was “on the verge of turning 90, an age when you have to reduce the intensity of your activities a little”

The writer's “passing will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world’, the family statement read.

“Butwe 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.”