Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday at the age of 89. This was announced by his son, TASR reports based on AP and AFP reports. Llosa was considered one of the most influential Latin American authors and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
“With great sorrow, we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, died today calmly in Lima, surrounded by his family,” says a letter published on the social network, written by his eldest son Elvaro and signed his siblings Gonzalo and Morgan. According to the letter, the remains of Vargas Llos will be cremated and a public funeral will not be held.
Life message
“His departure will be grieved by his relatives, friends and readers around the world, but we hope that, as we will find comfort, he has lived a long, adventurous and fruitful life and leaves the work to survive,” his children added.
The novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, South American Peru. In his youth he studied at the Military Academy. At the University of Madrid, Spain, he received a doctorate from philosophy, while his studies made a living of all sorts of jobs and wrote.
Literary peaks
Especially in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century he was one of the giants of the Latin American literature. Together with Colombian Gabriel Garci Márquez and Argentine Julio Cortázar, they followed the top legacy of Jorge Louis Borges in the sphere of magical realism. This literary direction developed in the second half of the 20th century and reflected the postmodern era in the South American region. It is characterized by the depiction of Hispanic reality, often by means of symbols and with a philosophical undertone in the intertwining with everyday life.
Llos has partly brought popularity to the autobiographical novel City and Dogs (1963) about the non -human adolescence of the military school pupils. In the book of the Green House (1965), stories capturing the multifacetedness and colorfulness of Peruvian reality take place in the Amazon Forest and Indian settlements. Its important also include the novels of the Cathedral (1969) and Pantalaleon and Visitors (1973), who penetrated one of the widest reading strata. Violence in Peruvian politics is dealt with by the book who killed Palomin Molera? (1986). The novel The narrator (1987) has drawn readers into the world of myths and legends of the Amazon Mačigen tribe with considerations of the benefits of the arrival of the advanced civilization into this environment.
Awards and politics
For his work, in broader global contexts reflecting the policy and history of the region, he has won a number of awards, including the Nobel Literature Award in 2010 or the Romul Galga Award (1967) and the Cervantes Award (1994). In addition to literary circles, Mario Vargas Llos became famous for the Peruvian President’s candidacy. In 1993 he acquired Spanish citizenship.
In recent months, the arguments of the deteriorating health of Vargas Llos have spread. Last October, his son Alvaro said that the writer is on the threshold of the nineties and in this age he must reduce the intensity of his activities.
