Mario Vargas Llosa, 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 ...

That’s why this week’s edition is focused on Latin American literature in translation. Colombia’s most famous writer is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose 1967 masterpiece of magical realism ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, 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 ...

Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (originally published in 1967) has long been heralded as a masterpiece of magical realism and a cornerstone of Latin American literature.

That exam is a test of your competence in Latin and your familiarity with the field of Latin literature, rather than a test on this list. Read as much as you can in preparation. The pass mark is 80%.

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his children Álvaro ...

On the occasion of the 30th World Book Day, the Global Times and the Embassy of Colombia in Beijing hosted the "Spring Reading" - China-Latin America Literature Salon on Tuesday at the hall of the ...

Brilliantly, regularly, he wrote about the tyrants of right and left who seduced Latin America ... the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy’s citation praised Vargas Llosa’s ...

Lima, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such ...