When journalist and novelist Elena Poniatowska headed to a film premiere in Mexico City, she had no idea she was about to ...

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.

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...

Llosa was a prolific author and essayist with several celebrated novels including “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los ...

The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a ...

Its leading authors, who included Vargas Llosa's Colombian friend and sometime rival Gabriel García Márquez - who pioneered .

The world bids farewell to Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian literary giant whose fearless novels and political defiance ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose novels explored the military ...

The erstwhile Marxist-turned-free-marketeer wrote historical novels, semi-autobiographical comedies, murder mysteries, ...