Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in PeruInterview: ‘The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year’Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the pivotal figures who ignited a global boom in Latin American literature, has died aged 89.His death on Sunday was announced in a statement from his children, Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa. Continue reading...