Their relationship ended abruptly after a tense encounter in Mexico City in 1976, one that would become literally legend.

Do you know about the most famous punch in the history of world literature? It was thrown by the Peruvian Nobel laureate ...

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

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

At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Mario Vargas Llosa famously punched his soon-to-be ex-friend, novelist Gabriel García Márquez, in the face. Some theorize the ruckus was about Vargas ...

It was February 12, 1976, and Poniatowska found herself standing next to Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his wife Mercedes Barcha at a screening of the documentary "La odisea de los ...

Mexico City (AFP) – 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 fight of the century as two ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died ...

The Latin American literary giants reportedly stopped speaking and drifted apart for decades after the punching incident in 1976 ...

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...