A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel Prize–winning novelist who famously labeled Mexico a “perfect dictatorship,” died ...

Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima at age 89, was a protagonist of the Latin American Boom, a chronicler of his time, and a ...

Vargas Llosa was one of the greatest of modern Latin American novelists, adapted on several occasions to the big screen.

The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a ...

Such was Updike’s influence that readers paid heed when, in the mid-1980s, he developed a sustained literary man-crush on the ...

He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was the last survivor of a golden generation of Latin American literary giants, his writing ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...