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Nobel Prize-winning author Vargas Llosa dies at 89

14 April

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Peruvian author and politician Mario Vargas Llosa has died aged 89, his family announced. The author passed away peacefully in the company of his family in Lima, his son said in a post on X.

Llosa received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He was active in Peruvian politics and ran for president in 1990.

He was one of the most prolific Latin American authors who won international acclaim for his works.

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