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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 ...

In 2010, the prolific, debonair but combative author of 20 novels and a shelf of essays and memoirs gained the one accolade that saluted his true gifts: the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish ...

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