“He spent it happy; his close friends surrounded him, he ate his cake, we joked that day that there were still 89 more years ...

In Spain, where he spent long stretches of his life, King Felipe ... alongside Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. Vargas Llosa started writing early, and at 15 was a part-time crime ...

But early on he abandoned the socialist ideas that ... at times inserting characters based on his own life into his tales. His acclaimed debut novel, "The Time of the Hero" (1963), was loosely ...

Llosa was a prolific author and essayist with several celebrated novels including “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los ...

A pampered early life and ‘hell’ in a military school ... former wife of singer Julio Iglesias and mother of singer Enrique Iglesias. They separated in 2022. Vargas Llosa is survived by ...