Rest in peace, Mario Vargas Llosa

“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

Recent stories of note: “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide”Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal “I learned to read at the age of five,” said Mario Vargas Llosa upon accepting his Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. “It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me.” The Peruvian novelist, essayist, and politician died last Sunday at the age of eighty-nine, and his learning to read doubtless stands as an …

He was one of those insatiable writers who wanted to devour the world and recreate it in defiance of earthly misery. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, he was a genius and a scoundrel, someone who lived in perpetual conflict with himself and his ghosts, using this to go from intimacy to politics

Rest in peace, Mario Vargas Llosa

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 Llosa’s wife. Others believe it was a row over politics,…

Rest in peace, Mario Vargas Llosa - Washington Examiner

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 Llosa’s wife. Others believe it was a row over politics, as Vargas Llosa would soon refer to García Márquez as “Castro’s courtesan.” I like to think the latter happened. Because the only thing Vargas Llosa, who died this week at the age of 87 in Spain, seeme…

Last Sunday, while participating in a group call of friends, in which we commented on the results of the presidential elections, and at the same time looking at social networks in search of new elections, I saw in X a text signed by Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa. “ Vargas Llosa died!” I told my friends, almost screaming.

This week, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa passed away. The Nobel laureate's books offer a new understanding of the world -- but his right-wing populist cantering on the fall of age has intensified in Sweden, writes Björn Wiman.