Mario Vargas Llosa

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  Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Hospitalised With Covid

  Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has been hospitalised after contracting Covid-19, but his condition is "developing favourably," his son said on Friday.

• Nobel Writer Vargas Llosa Backs Islam Critic Hirsi Ali

  Nobel-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa today praised Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a women's rights advocate and leading critic of Islam, calling her "one of the most valuable" adversaries of "Islamic fanatics".

• Life and times of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and popularized the genre of magical realism, died on Thursday at the age of 87.

• Garcia Marquez and Fidel Castro: A controversial friendship

  Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez met Fidel Castro after the Cuban leader grabbed power in the 1959 revolution - the beginning of a decades-long and controversial friendship.

• Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?

  Great literature needs tumult. For the body of a great tale. Mario Vargas Llosa has used the tumult of his times and of his region to tell story after gripping story. The 74-year-old is indubitably one of the most important Latin American authors. Standing right there with his one-time friend and for many years now not-a-friend Gabriel Garcia Marqu...

• Nobel prize for literature goes to Mario Vargas Llosa

  Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. (Read: Who is Mario Vargas Llosa)The Swedish Academy said it honoured the 74-year-old author "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images...