Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel prize-winning novelist, dies at 89

FILE PHOTO: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, sits behind his books during the presentation of his latest novel "Five Corners" in Madrid, Spain, March 1, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas/File Photo

LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and nearly became president of his country, died on Sunday aged 89.

He died in the country's capital Lima surrounded by his family and "at peace," his son Alvaro Vargas Llosa, a well-known political commentator, said on X.