Arts & Letters Daily - <strong>Mario Vargas Llosa</strong>, the Peruvian novelist known for gritty realism, is dead. He was 89... <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/books/review/mario-vargas-llosa-appraisal.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k4.aNp8.yXqcty8piOSM&smid=url-share">Dwight Garner</a>... <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/we-waited-greedily-for-his-novels-mario-vargas-llosa-a-revolutionary-of-spanish-language-fiction">Alberto Manguel</a>... <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/vargas-llosa-stood-for-freedom-against-the-nationalist-tide-1fa120a0?st=5vyy2S&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Tunku Varadarajan</a>... <a href="https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/mario-vargas-llosa-nobel-prize-winning-peruvian-author-and-politician-dies-6112c157?st=qioSCV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><em>WSJ</em></a>...<em> </em><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-14/mario-vargas-llosa-a-giant-of-universal-literature-dies.html">El País</a>... <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/04/mario-vargas-llosas-political-journeys/682468/">Ilan Stavans</a>

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Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist known for gritty realism, is dead. He was 89... Dwight Garner... Alberto Manguel... Tunku Varadarajan... WSJ... El País... Ilan Stavans... more »