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    -WIKIPEDIA: Mario Vargas Llosa
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    -OBIT:Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89: Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru (Richard Lea and Sian Cain, 13 Apr 2025, The Guardian)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89 (Simon Romero, Apr. 13th, 2025, NY Times)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89 (FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CIARÁN GILES, Apr. 14th, 2025, AP)
    -OBIT: Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel prize-winning novelist, dies at 89 (Reuters, April 13, 2025)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize-Winning Peruvian Author and Politician, Dies: The erstwhile Marxist-turned-free-marketeer wrote historical novels, semi-autobiographical comedies, murder mysteries, political essays and plays (Ryan Dubé, April 13, 2025, Wall Street Journal)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa: Giant of Latin American literature, with a punch to match (BBC, 4/14/25)
    -OBIT: Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa dies in Peru (AFP, April 13, 2025)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa has died at 89. (Emily Temple,m April 14, 2025, LitHub)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize Winning Latin American Novelist, Dies at 89 (John Hopewell, 4/14/25, Variety)
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    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author, dies at age 89 (Willem Marx, 4/14/25, NPR)
    -OBIT: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Nobel giant and critic of Israeli occupation, dies at 89: Latin American laureate giant Vargas Llosa condemned the occupation of Palestinian territories as colonial and denounced Israel's attacks in Gaza. (The New Arab, 14 April, 2025)
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    -TRIBUTE: The Great Neoliberal Novelist (Geoff Shullenberger, April 15, 2025, Compact)
    -TRIBUTE: Mario Vargas Llosa: Combatting Unhappiness Until the End: The Nobel Prize winner, considered to be one of the great Spanish language writers of the 20th century, uniquely transformed every experience into literature. (Javier Villamor, April 14, 2025, European Conservative)
    -TRIBUTE: Mario Vargas Llosa: An Appreciation (Dwight Garner, Apr. 13th, 2025, NY Times)
    -TRIBUTE: Vargas Llosa, last of Latin America’s literary golden generation (Hazel WARD, 4/13/25, AFP)
    -TRIBUTE: The Inexhaustible Mario Vargas Llosa (Enrique Krauze, 4/15/25, Project Syndicate)
    -TRIBUTE: Mario Vargas Llosa ‘put Peru on the world’s literary map’ (Howard LaFranchi, April 14, 2025, CS Monitor)
    -TRIBUTE: ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction,/a>: His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictions (Alberto Manguel, 14 Apr 2025, The Guardian)
    -TRIBUTE: The Last of the Boom: Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa (Santiago Ramos, April 21, 2025, Commonweal)
    -TRIBUTE: Mario Vargas Llosa: The Man Who Broke From the Tribe: In his moral defense of individual liberty, the late scholar raged against against propagandizing tyrants and ornamental intellectuals. (Emmanuel Rincon, April 28, 2025, Daily Economy)
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    -ESSAY: Mario Vargas Llosa: The novelist who lectured Latin America: The Peruvian novelist wove tales of political corruption and moral compromise (The Week, 4/22/25)
    -ESSAY: The silent suffering of Mario Vargas Llosa: Five years of dealing with an incurable disease: The Nobel Prize winner was diagnosed with a serious illness in the summer of 2020. He didn’t want to make it public, but his closest friends knew. He spent his final months visiting the settings of some of his most celebrated novels (Martín Bianchi, Apr 15, 2025, El Pais)
    -ESSAY: Mario Vargas Llosa’s great loves: His aunt Julia, his cousin Patricia, and socialite Isabel Preysler: The Nobel Prize winner had a romantic life worthy of a novel. He married a relative 12 years his senior, then left her for another one. In 2015, he began a high-profile relationship with a star of gossip magazines (Martín Bianchi, Apr 16, 2025, Al Pais)
    -ESSAY: Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion: He swapped Leftism for Pinochet (Pratinav Anil, April 18, 2025, UnHerd)
    -ESSAY: Mario Vargas Llosa on Looking Back, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers: “It is the job of readers whose sensitivity is awakened by what is imagined there to know how to respond." (Mario Vargas Llosa, September 23, 2022, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: All Things Are Possible: Mario Vargas Llosa on the Eternal Youth of Flaubert’s Writing: "If we are to be honest, the true creator of the modern novel was Flaubert." (Mario Vargas Llosa, August 29, 2022, LitHub)
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    -INTERVIEW: Mario Vargas Llosa: ‘The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year’: The Peruvian Nobel laureate on winning literature’s biggest prize, his feud with Gabriel García Márquez and coming to accept that he is ‘not a politician’ (Stuart Jeffries, 15 Jun 2012, The Guardian)
    -PROFILE: One Man’s Political Education (JAY NORDLINGER, November 14, 2022, National Review)
    -PROFILE: Mario Vargas Llosa explores 1954 Guatemalan coup in new novel,/a> (Scott Simon, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento & Mia Estrada, 11/29/21, NPR)
    -PROFILE: One Man’s Political Education (JAY NORDLINGER, November 14, 2022, National Review)
    -ESSAY: The Miseducation of Mario Vargas Llosa: A recent collection, The Call of the Tribe, explains why the Peruvian writer rejected the left and embraced the thinking of Friedrich Hayek and his ilk. (JACK HANSON, 7/05/23, The Nation)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Making Men and Myths in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller (Elizabeth Gonzalez James, 7/08/21, Ploughshares)
    -REVIEW: of Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa (Rachel Nolan, LRB)
    -REVIEW:: of The Call of the Tribe: Essays Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by John King: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Damascene conversion to liberalism: Shocked by the authoritarianism of Cuba and the USSR, the Peruvian writer turned his back on communism in the 1960s, influenced by seven liberal European thinkers (Daniel Rey, 28 January 2023, Spectator)
    -REVIEW: of Call of the Tribe (javier fernández-lasquetty, Law & Liberty)