Personal details are boring and worth skipping. Suffice it to say life was changed, with a job transfer and admission to a university after that friend’s suggestion. The book was ‘ Conversation in The ...

Their relationship ended abruptly after a tense encounter in Mexico City in 1976, one that would become literally legend.

When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska headed to a film premiere in Mexico City, she had no idea she was about to witness the literary feud of the century as two future Nobel laureates came to ...

The 1960s literary movement travelled from Spanish and Portuguese to the English-speaking world on the back of acclaimed ...

Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima at age 89, was a protagonist of the Latin American Boom, a chronicler of his time, and a ...

The Peruvian-born writer died in Lima on Sunday. A leading Latin American author, he saw literature as a way of shaping consciences.