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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist and essayist, a leading figure of the Latin American literary boom, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. His novels include The Time of the Hero (1963), Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) and The Feast of the Goat (2000). Turning from the left to liberalism, he ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 and lost to Alberto Fujimori. He died in Lima in 2025.
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