Mario Vargas Losa died at the age of 89

The Peruvian writer and politician Mario Vargas Llosa is dead. This was announced by his family on the X platform. Vargas Losa died on Sunday evening (local time) in Lima Friedlich with his family. « We announced with deep grief that our father died, » wrote his son on X.

In 2010 Mario Vargas Losa received the Nobel Prize for Literature

Vargas Losa is known for his works such as « The City and the Dogs » (1963), « The Evil Girls » (2006) or « The Festival of the Tails » (2000). He wrote his last novel « Die Great T tempting » in 2010. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature « For his cartography of the power structures and sharp -edged images of individual resistance, turmoil and defeat. » Compared to the British Guardian said Vargas Losa back then Nobel price It was like a fairy tale for a week, but also a nightmare for a year, since he had little time to write because of sheer interviews and book fairs.

In 2023, Perus President Vargas Losa presented the most important award in the country, the « Order of the Sun of Peru ». In the same year, the then 86-year-old was admitted to the venerable Académie Française in France as the first writer who did not write in French.

Mario Vargas Losa withdrew after an election defeat from politics

Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in the city of Arequipa in the south of Peru. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was considered one of the big names of Latin American literature. Vargas Losa also worked politically. In the eighties, Vargas Losa became chairman of the liberal Movimiento Libertad. In 1990 he applied for the office of Peruvian president. Ultimately, in the second ballot he lost to the outsider Alberto Fujimori and then withdrew from politics. From his political experiences he learned that he was a writer, not a politician, said Vargas Losa in 2012 im Guardian.