Peru [Lima], April 15: Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has died aged 89, his agency confirmed to dpa on Monday.
He "passed away peacefully" in Lima on Sunday surrounded by his family, Vargas Llosa's children said on social media platform X.
"His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we hope that they will find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him," Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa wrote in English.
The Peruvian government ordered a day of national mourning on Monday, according to media reports.
Vargas Llosa is considered one of the most important Latin American writers of his generation. Rising to international fame thanks to novels including "The time of the hero," "Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter" and "The feast of the goat," he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
Source: Qatar Tribune
