Giant of Latin American Literature

Mario Vargas Llose, Who has died at the Age of 89 in His Native Peru, Was A Towering Figure in Latin American Literature and Culture Who Rarely Shied Away from Controversy.

With More Than 50 Works to His Name, Many Widely Translated, Vargas Llose Won Literature in Literature in 2010 When Judges Dubbed Him A “Divinely Gifted Story-Teller”. His Depictions of Authoritarianism, Violence and Machism, Using Rich Language and Imagery, Made Him A Star Literary Boom Literary Movement That Shone A Global Spotlight On The Continent.

At First Sympathetic to Left-Wing Ideas, He Grew With Latin America’s Revolutionary Causes, Eventually Running Unsuccessfully For The Peruvian Presidency With A Center-Right Party in 1990.

Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 to A Middle-Class Family in Arequipa in Southern Peru. After His Parents Separated While An Infant, He moved to Cochabamba Bolivia With His Great-grandparents. He returned to Peru Aged 10 And Six Years Later He wrote His First Play, The Escape of the Inca. He graduated from Lima University, Studied in Spain and Later Moved to Paris.

His First Novel, The Time of The Hero, Was An Indictment of Corruption and Abuse A Attachment at a Peruvian Military School. Written at a time when the country’s military wielded significant political and social power, it was published in 1962.

ITS Forceful, Menacing Imagery Was Condemned by Several Peruvian Generals. One Accused Vargas Llosa of Having A “degenerate mind”.

It was based on the writer’s own time as a teenager at The Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was described in 1990 as “An Extremely Traumity Experience.” His Two Years Him See His Country “As a Violent Society, Bitterness Completed, Made Up Of Social, Cultural, And Racial Factions in Complete Opposition”. The School Itself Burnt 1,000 Copies Of The Novel on the Novel, Claimed Vargas Llosa.

His Experimental Second Novel The Green House (1966) was in the Peruvian Desert and Jungle, and described An Alliance Of Pimps, Missionaries and Soldiers Based Around A Brothel.

The Two Novels helped the Latin American Boom Literary Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The Boom Was Characterised by Experimental and Explicitly Political Works That Reflected in Turmoil in Continent.

ITS Leading Authors, Who included Vargas’s Colombian Friend and Sometime Rival Gabriel García Márquez – Who Pioneered The Kaleidoscopic Magical Realism – Became Household Names and Their Works WORLD.

Famously The Two Authors did not talk to EACH OTHER AFTER VARCHED LLOSA MARCHED GARCÍA IN THE FACE IN THE MEXICAN CINEMA IN 1976. Reports of WHy Vargas Punched His Colombian Friend Differ.

Had Revolved Around the Brecía’s Friendship with Vargas Llosa’s, Patricia, But Vargas Llosa Told Students At Madrid University in 2017 Communist Leader, Fidel Castro.

They Reconciled in 2007 and Three Years Later, Vargas Llose Was the Nobel Prize – The First South American Writer to Be Chosen For The Literature Prize Márquez Took in 1982.

Much of Vargas Llosa’s Works From The Instability and Violence in Latin America in The Second Half of The 20th Century As the Region of Revolutions and Military Rule.

His Novel Conversations in the Cathedral (1969) was celebrated exposing How the Peruvian dictatorship of 1948-56 Under Manuel Odría Controlled and Eventually Ruined The Ordinary People.

Like Many Intellectuals, Vargas Llosa Supported Fidel Castro Leader With The Communist Leader Following The “Padilla Affair” When Poet The Poet The Cuban Government In 1971.

In 1983 Vargas Llose Was President of a Commission Investigating The Gruesome Killing in a Village in The Peruvian Andes of Eight Journalists, What Became Known As the Uchuraccay Massacre.

Peruvian Officials Maintained That The Journalists Had Been Killed by Indigentous Villagers Who Had Mistakn The Journalists of the Maoist Shining Path Guerrilla Group.

The Commission’s Report Backed The Official Line, Lollos by Those Those Those Those Those Those Those Those Gruesome Nature’s Inflicted On The Body Were On The Body Were An Infamous Anti-Terrorist Than Signs of “Indigenous violence. “

Moving Further On The Political Spectrum, in 1990 Vargas Llosa Ran For The Peruvian Presidency With The Center-Right Frente Democratic Coalition on A Neo-Liberal Platform. He Lost To Alberto Fujimori, who Went on the Following 10 Years for Govern Peru.

Despite The Criticalism Levelst Him over The Investigation Into The Uchuraccay Massacre, Vargas Llosa Continued to Expose State Terror and Abuse Of Power Through Literature.

His Novel Of The Goat, Published in 2000, Who Ruled The Dominican Republic for 31 Years Until His Assassination in 1961. The Novel Won Praise to Nobel Prize Committee for ITS ATTENTION ” of the Individual’s Resistance, Revolt, and defeat “.

Other works were already adapted for The Big Screen. His Book Aunt Julia and The Scriptwriter, Based on His First Marriage, was an Adapted in 1990 Into Hollywood Feature Film, Tune in Tomorrow.

His Later Work Covered Figures As Diverse As Irish Nationalist Roger Casement (The Dream of The Celt, 2012).

He spent the latter Years of His Life in Peru As well as Madrid.

The Author Appeared in the Spanish Gossip Magazine Hola Hola About 50 Years in 2015 to Be Spanish-Filipino Socialite Isabel Preysler, The Mother of Popular Latin Singer Enrique Iglesias.

He contact Continued Controversial Remarks for Criticalicism.

In 2019 he was Condemned in Killings of Killings in Mexico – More than 100 in The Past Decade – On The Expansion of Press Freedom “Wrimnels Journalists to Say Things That We Not Permitted Previously”. While He Also Said That “Narcotics Trafficking Places An Absolutely Central Part in All”, Some Commentators Felt It Ha Failed To Express With The Victims and Their Families.

And in 2018 he caused a Stir, in a column to Spanish Newspaper, HE Most Determined Enemy Literature, Trying to Decontaminate It From Machism, Multiple Prejudices and Immoralities “.

He died in Lima 13 April Surrounded by His Family and “At Peace”, His Son Álvaro Vargas Llosa announced.

With His Death, The Last of the Latin American Boom’s Great Stars has begun.