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Mario Vargas Llosa Dies: Peruvian Literary Giant Was 89
Mario Vargas Llosa Dies: Peruvian Literary Giant Was 89
The writer’s son Álvaro Vargos Llosa announced on Sunday that his father had “passed away peacefully in Lima…, surrounded by his family” in a social media post, signed by himself and his siblings Gonzalo and Morgana. “His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we 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,” read the post. This work and further early novels, including The Green House(1966) and Conversation in the Cathedral(1969), would earn him a place as one of the key figures of the Latin American Boom literary movement of the 1960s and 70s, alongside the likes of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Julio Cortázar and Carlos Fuentes.
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