Overview

• Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner and influential novelist, passed away on April 13, 2025, at his home in Lima, Peru, at the age of 89.
• His children confirmed his peaceful passing and announced that his body will be cremated, with no public ceremony per his wishes.
• Vargas Llosa was a pivotal figure in the 20th-century Latin American literary boom, known for novels such as 'The Time of the Hero,' 'The Feast of the Goat,' and 'Conversation in the Cathedral.'
• In addition to his literary achievements, he ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 and later became a prominent critic of authoritarianism and leftist regimes in Latin America.
• He was celebrated internationally, receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 and becoming the first living Spanish-speaking writer inducted into France's Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 2016.