Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa died


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  • Monday, 14 Apr 2025

FILE PHOTO: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian-Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner, poses in the library of the Institut de France, in Paris, France, February 9, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on Sunday in the country's capital Lima at the age of 89, surrounded by his family and "at peace," his son Alvaro Vargas Llosa said on his X social media account.

(Reporting by Diego Ore; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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