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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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

Decades after the Latin American literature “boom,” which made magical realism the region’s distinctive hallmark, several of its most notable books are gaining new momentum in the 21st century through ...

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 ...