Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel literature laureate who challenged Peru's powerful military in the early 1960s, has died at 89 ...

LIMA—The Peruvian flag flew at half-staff Monday (Tuesday Manila time) as the South American country grieved the passing of literary great Mario Vargas ...

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 ...

"His passing will mark a before and after in the history of world literature," one of them, 30-year-old artist David Marreros ... "My siblings Gonzalo and Morgana and I would like to express ...

Vargas Llosa also used his literary talents to write several successful novels about the lives of real people, including French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and his grandmother ...