Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes ...

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 ...

A liberal who revered order, a novelist devoted to realism, a critic of radicalism who once flirted with revolution, Vargas Llosa was, in many ways, an anachronism. However, his contradictions did not ...

"Learning to read was the most important thing that happened to me in life. If I became a writer, it was because of the extraordinary pleasure I found in reading and the adventures I ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.