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Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Nobel laureate in literature, dies in Lima at 89

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Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel laureate and renowned Peruvian writer, passed away on April 14, 2025, at the age of 89 in Lima, Peru. His death was confirmed by his family through social media. His works include notable novels such as "The Time of the Hero", "Conversation in the Cathedral", "The War of the End of the World", and "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter". Vargas Llosa was known for his epic novels that probed the moral depravity of authoritarian rule in Latin America.

  1. PE
    Dina Boluarte
    National University of San Marcos
    1. His intellectual genius and vast body of work will remain an everlasting legacy for future generations. We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and the world of literature.
  2. DE
    Jürgen Dormagen
    Suhrkamp Verlag
    1. Vargas Llosa is a curious cosmopolitan who has a clear interest in phenomena that occur around the world, and at the same time he actively partakes in them. That explains his presidential run in Peru or why at his age he continues to fervently write about issues in Venezuela or Mexico.
  3. PE
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    1. Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand.
    2. I am convinced that, for example, democratic culture, culture based on freedom, on respect of human rights, was something that was possible because we had people that were sensibilized by art, by literature, by culture in general, about the sufferance, the injustices, the inequalities, the abuses who were so extended in real life.
    3. If you're a writer in a country like Peru or Mexico, you're a privileged person because you know how to read and write, you have an audience, you are respected — even by people who repress you and sometimes put you in prison or even kill you.
    4. Peru is a kind of incurable illness and my relationship to it is intense, harsh and full of the violence of passion.
    5. I realized I was losing touch with the reality of my country, and above all its language, which for a writer can be deadly.
    6. Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.
    7. Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilious codes of conduct — how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them?
    8. It's about fanatics. People who believe they have a plan to lead everyone to a utopia — whether political or religious — are fanatics. This desire for some kind of heaven on earth has brought only catastrophe and totalitarianism.
    9. We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.
    10. In fact, if you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect. ... It is a moral obligation of a writer in Latin America to be involved in civic activities.

sources

  1. 1.The Times of India
  2. 2.CNN
  3. 3.France 24
  4. 4.The Washington Post
  5. 5.DW News
  6. 6.Agence France-Presse
  7. 7.Washington Post

perspectives

  1. 1.Obituary
  2. 2.Nobel Prize
  3. 3.Literature
  4. 4.Peru under Dina Boluarte
  5. 5.Dictatures in South America

countries

  1. 1.ArgentinaAR
  2. 2.Bolivia, Plurinational State ofBO
  3. 3.ColombiaCO
  4. 4.CubaCU
  5. 5.CzechiaCZ
  6. 6.GermanyDE
  7. 7.DenmarkDK
  8. 8.SpainES
  9. 9.FranceFR
  10. 10.GuatemalaGT
  11. 11.MexicoMX
  12. 12.PeruPE

organizations

  1. 1.BOOM
  2. 2.Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesSE
  3. 3.Academie Francaise
  4. 4.Leoncio Prado Military Academy
  5. 5.Royal Society of Literature
  6. 6.King's College London
  7. 7.La Cronica
  8. 8.Louisiana Channel
  9. 9.PEN International
  10. 10.Suhrkamp Verlag
  11. 11.Washington State University

persons

  1. 1.Mario Vargas LlosaPE
  2. 2.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  3. 3.Dina BoluartePE
  4. 4.Carlos Fuentes
  5. 5.Ernesto Vargas Maldonado
  6. 6.Vaclav Havel
  7. 7.Alberto FujimoriPE
  8. 8.Dora Llosa Ureta
  9. 9.Isabel Preysler
  10. 10.José Ortega Y Gasset
  11. 11.Louise Gluck
  12. 12.Mo Yan

technicals

  1. 1.Nobel Prize
  2. 2.Time of the Hero
  3. 3.Conversation in the Cathedral
  4. 4.Nobel Prize for Literature
  5. 5.Feast of the Goat
  6. 6.Green House
  7. 7.Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
  8. 8.Harsh Times
  9. 9.Marxism
  10. 10.Piano Teacher
  11. 11.Spanish Critics' Award
  12. 12.War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Nobel laureate in literature, dies in Lima at 89