Mario Vargas Llosa is dead. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says goodbye to the outstanding Nobel Prize winner

“At the age of 89, Mario Vargas Llosa, an outstanding writer, Nobel Prize winner, author of” Conversations in the cathedral “and Polish friend. Objected to the imposition of martial law in Poland and supported the Solidarity Movement” – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in social media.” We convey to his family and the entire Peruvian nation, “he added.

Mario Vargas Llosa is dead

Llosa was born in 1936 in the city of Arequipa in the south of Peru. The novels “City and Dogs”, “Green House” and “Conversation in the cathedral” published in the 1960s. In 1990 he ran for president of Peru, but lost in the second round with Alberto Fujimori. He was a winner of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in 2010, as well as a member of the French Academy.

Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize Literary Award and one of the most influential Latin American writers, died on Sunday in Lima.