The great Peruvian novelist and classical liberal Mario Vargas Llosa passed away on April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.

The Latin American Boom, a literary phenomenon that consisted of the Latin American narrative, spread throughout the world.

Vargas Llosa agreed that when Spanish inquisitors set about suppressing the novel in their new colonies, they were targeting ...

Carla Colome. Carla is a Cuban journalist based in New York. She is the founder of the magazine ‘El Estornudo’ and winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Award for Young Journalism.

Recent stories of note: “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street ...

Listen to this bonus episode of a conversation between the Peruvian writer and legendary translator Edith Grossman, recorded ...

At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Mario Vargas Llosa famously punched his soon-to-be ex-friend, novelist Gabriel ...

Mario Vargas Llosa’s works will continue to inspire young people and people everywhere to stand against authoritarianism.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you ...

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

There was a stoic soldier in Mario Vargas Llosa’s soul – always ready to respond to evil with imagination, irony, humor, ...

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes ...