Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa passed away

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died at the age of 89 ‘in Vrede’ in his hometown of Lima. His family announced this on Sunday. Vargas Llosa is considered one of the greatest writers and thinkers of Latin America and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.

He often wrote socially involved novels about power and violence, of which The city and the dogs from 1963 and The green house from 1965 the best known were. He was also active as a journalist and literary critic and he also wrote plays and essays.

Political career

He also became politically active in the late 1980s and participated as a candidate for the Democratic Front in 1990 in the presidential elections in Peru, but then lost to Alberto Fujimori. He wrote the book about that political power struggle The fish in the water.

In addition to the Nobel Prize, Vargas Llosa already received the Cervanta Prize in 1994, the most important literary prize in the Spanish -speaking world.

« His death will put his family members, friends and readers a lot of sorrow worldwide, » says a letter that was also signed by his grandchildren immediately after his death. « But we hope that, like us, they can find comfort in the fact that he has had a long, adventurous and fruitful life and leaves an oeuvre that will survive him. »

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