Literature giant in Latin America

Mario Vargas Losa, who died at the age of 89 in his hometown of Peru, was a tall figure in literature and culture in Latin America, who rarely moved away from controversy.

With more than 50 works in his name, he was widely translated, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when the judges called him “Divine Divine Stories”. His depiction of tyranny, violence and automatic, using the rich language and images, made him a star in the Latin American prosperity movement, which referred to the global lights on the continent.

Initially, he sympathizes with left -wing ideas, as he was disappointed by the revolutionary causes of Latin America, in the end of the end of the day to the presidency of Peru with the center -right party in 1990.

Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 to a middle -class family in Arikaiba, southern Peru. After his parents separated while he was a baby, he moved to Kotshabba in Bolivia with his grandparents. He returned to the 10 -year -old and six -year -old after he wrote his first play, the Inca escape. He graduated from Lima University, studied in Spain and then moved to Paris.

His first novel, The Time of the Hero, was an indictment of corruption and ill -treatment at Peru Military School. He wrote at a time when the army was practicing important political and social power, and was published in 1962.

Her powerful pictures threatened by many Peruvian generals have been convicted. One accused Vargas Llosa of the presence of a “deteriorating mind”.

This was dependent on the time of the writer when he was a teenager at the Longio Prado Military Academy, which he described in 1990 as a “very painful experience”. He made him two years there they see his country “as a violent society, full of bitterness, and it consists of social, cultural and ethnic factions in complete opposition.” The same school claimed 1000 copies of the novel on its soil.

His second experimental novel was appointed (1966) in the desert and forest in Peru, describing an alliance of pimps, missionaries and soldiers in a prostitution house.

The two novels helped find the movement of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. The mutation was characterized by experimental and frankly political actions that reflect a continent in the turmoil.

Her prominent authors, who included her Colombian boyfriend in Vargas Losa and the competition at some point Gabriel Garcia Marquise – who was a leader in the magic reality style of writing – became home names and read their works all over the world.

The authors have not spoken to each other for decades after Vargas Llosa made García márquez in his face in a Mexican cinema in 1976. Reports about the difference of Vargas Llosa, his Colombian friend.

Garcia’s friends said that the conflict may revolve around Garcia’s friendship with the wife of Vargas Losa at the time, Patricia, but Vargas Losa told students at Madrid University in 2017 that she was reaching their opposition views on Cuba and Communist leader Fidel Castro.

They received success in 2007 and three years later, in 2010, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize – the first writer in South America was chosen for the Literature Award since Gabriel Garcia Marquis was the honor in 1982.

Many Vargas Llosa work cannot be separated from instability and violence in parts of Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century, when the region witnessed waves of revolutions and military rule.

His talks were celebrated in the cathedral (1969) to expose how the Peruvian dictatorship dominated in 1948-1956 under the control of Manuel Odra and destroyed the lives of ordinary people in the end.

Like many intellectuals, Vargas Llosa Fidel Castro supported it but has become disappointed by the Communist leader after “Affair” when the poet Hebeto Padilla was imprisoned because of his criticism of the Cuban government in 1971.

In 1983, Vargas Llosa was appointed head of a committee to investigate the heinous killing in a village in the Andes Mountains in Peru from eight journalists, which became known as the UchUraccay massacre.

Peruvian officials confirmed that journalists were killed by the indigenous villagers who had mistaken journalists for the members of the guerrilla group of guerrillas in Maoi.

The committee’s report was supported by the official line, which led to great criticism of Vargas Losa by those who believed that the heinous nature of the terrible crime and distortion that was inflicted on the body was the distinctive feature of an anti -terrorist police instead of the signs of “original violence”.

Moving further on the political spectrum, in 1990, Vargas Llosa ran to the Peruvian presidency with the FRENTE DEMOCRáTico Coalition at the right of the center right on a new liberal platform. He lost to Alberto Fujimuri, who went to Peruvian rule over the next ten years.

Despite the criticisms of his warning about an investigation into the UchruracCay massacre, Vargas Llosa continued to expose the state’s terror and abuse power through literature.

His novel The Weast of The Goat, published in 2000, focused on dictator Rafael Trugilo, who ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years until his assassination in 1961. The novel won the praise of the Nobel Prize for its interest in “power structures” and “images of individual resistance, traffic, and defeat.”

Other works of the large screen were adapted. His book Aunt Julia and script writer, based on his first marriage, was adapted in 1990 in the Hollywood feature movie Tune In Tomorrow.

His work later covered various numbers such as Irish nationalities, Roger Kasent (Dream Celt, 2012).

He spent the last years of his life in Peru as well as Madrid.

The author appeared on the pages of the Spanish magazine Gossip after he left his 50 -year -old wife in 2015 to be with the Spaniard Social Spaniari PRYARER, the mother of the famous Latin singer Enrique Iglesias.

He also continued to attract criticism for controversial statements.

In 2019, he was convicted to blame for a rise in the killing of journalists in Mexico – more than 100 in the past decade – to expand the freedom of the press “that allows journalists to say things that are not permitted in advance.” While he also said that “drug trafficking plays a completely major role in all of this,” some commentators felt that he failed to express sympathy for the victims and their families.

In 2018, it caused a stir when, in a column for the Spanish newspaper El País, describing feminist as the enemy the most designed literature, trying to remove its pollution from machines, multiple and non -moral biases. “

He died in Lima on April 13 and surrounded by his family and “in Salam”, his son Alvaro Vargas Losa announced.

With his death, another of the stars of the great Latin America boom went.