LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel lit laureate and a elephantine of Latin American letters for galore decades, has died, his boy said Sunday. He was 89.
“It is pinch heavy sorrow that we denote that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed distant peacefully successful Lima today, surrounded by his family,” publication a missive signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, and posted by Álvaro connected X.
The missive says that his remains will beryllium cremated and that location won’t beryllium immoderate nationalist ceremony.
“His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers astir nan world, but we dream that they will find comfort, arsenic we do, successful nan truth that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves down him a assemblage of activity that will outlive him,” they added.
He was writer of specified celebrated novels arsenic “The Time of nan Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of nan Goat.”
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A prolific novelist and essayist and victor of myriad prizes, Vargas Llosa was awarded nan Nobel successful 2010 aft being considered a contender for galore years.