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Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize Winning Latin American Novelist, Dies at 89
Vargas Llosa was one of the greatest of modern Latin American novelists, adapted on several occasions to the big screen.
His third novel, 1969’s “Conversation in the Cathedral,” was commonly hailed a masterpiece, asking in its much quoted second sentence, “At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?” Vargas Llosa traces an answer to the corruption of Manuel A. Odría dictatorship and the mediocrity of Perú ruling elite. Blessed by dashing Latin looks, cosmopolitan – he spent much of is life in London, Paris and Barcelona – courteous and a gentleman, Vargas Llosa, like the world’s intelligentsia, supported Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba. Embracing neo-liberalism, Vargas Llosa distanced himself from Latin America’s left, had a celebrated fall out with García Márquez, and ran for Peru’s presidency with its center-right Frente Democrático.
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