Peruvian Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa has died in Lima at the age of 90, his family said.
Llosa's son, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, wrote on the X platform that the writer passed away peacefully on Sunday, surrounded by his family, Tanjug reports.
Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and among his most famous works are "Aunt Julia and the Scribbler", "Death in the Andes" and "The War for the End of the World".
He was born on March 28, 1936, and his first novel, "The Time of Heroes," was written in 1963, after which he wrote dozens of novels, plays, and essays. He abandoned socialist ideas early on and embraced conservative views, and in 1990 he ran for president of Peru, stating that he wanted to save his country from economic chaos and Marxist rebellion, Reuters recalls.
He lost in the second round to Alberto Fujimori, a then-unknown agronomist and university professor who was later imprisoned for human rights and corruption crimes.
Frustrated by his election loss, the writer moved to Spain, but remained influential in Latin America, harshly criticizing leftist leaders, especially then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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