Vargas Llosa on Fuentes: He Was A “Universal Man”

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru’s Nobel laureate, said that his Mexican contemporary, renowned author Carlos Fuentes, who passed away this week, was a “universal man” whose work has left a “deep footprint.” Fuentes died Tuesday in Mexico City. He was 83 years old. Along with Vargas Llosa and Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fuentes was a leading [...]

Vargas Llosa To Donate Personal Library To Arequipa

Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa is to donate his private library of some 30,000 books to the city of Arequipa, daily El Comercio reported. Vargas Llosa, the 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said that the majority of the books are literature and that he has written personal notes in [...]

Vargas Llosa: Upcoming Novel To Be Based In Piura

Peru’s best known author, Mario Vargas Llosa, said that his next novel will have the Andean country’s northern city of Piura as its scenario, Radio Programas reported. Vargas Llosa, the 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spent several years as a young boy in Piura.  Born March 28, 1936 in the southern city of Arequipa, he spent [...]

Non-renewal of Prensa Libre raises free press concerns

The Legal Defense Institute, IDL, issued a statement today in support of journalist Rosa Maria Palacios and in defense of freedom of speech, following the non-renewal of Palacios’ nightly political program “Prensa Libre” by America TV. Palacios, a lawyer –a graduate of the Catolica and the University of Texas at Austin– and prize-winning journalist whose [...]

Nobel writer Vargas Llosa removes weekly column from El Comercio

Novelist and Nobel 2010 winner Mario Vargas Llosa wrote a harsh letter to the publisher of El Comercio daily on Monday, explaining his reasons for rescinding any right to the newspaper to republish his syndicated column from Madrid’s newspaper El País: Dear Publisher, I have asked the daily El País to, as of today, cease sending [...]

OP-ED: Why Humala?

By Eleanor Griffis, Peruvian Times Publisher ~ Two weeks ago, presidential candidate Ollanta Humala took an oath to abide by a list of 12 conditions that would ensure the defense of democracy and rule of law if he is elected president. The event was significant but it didn’t get much press coverage, other than that [...]

Vargas Llosa, De Soto launch attacks in presidential campaign

As Peru’s second round presidential vote approaches and opinion polls continue to show a tight race between leftist Ollanta Humala and right-wing Keiko Fujimori, two of Peru’s most internationally acclaimed intellectuals are squaring off. The war of words between economist Hernando de Soto and Nobel Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, who are supporting Fujimori [...]

Presidential candidate Humala swears to God to respect Peruvian democracy (with podcast interview: Alvaro Vargas Llosa)

With his right hand resting on a gilded bible, presidential candidate Ollanta Humala swore before a who’s who of Peruvian civil society on Thursday to respect the nation’s democracy and make no attempt to alter the Constitution or the market economy if he is elected in the June 5 runoff ballot against Keiko Fujimori.

Peru gov’t to turn house where Vargas Llosa was born into museum

The house where Peruvian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa was born will be turned into a museum, Culture Minister Juan Ossio said. In October, Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Latin American to receive the award since 1990 when it was given to Octavio Paz of Mexico. [...]

Amnesty International: Peru sends contradictory messages on human rights

Peru’s government has been sending contradictory messages on its human rights stance to the international community, according to Hugo Relva, a legal advisor to Amnesty International. On the one hand, Peru has shown positive steps by inaugurating the Memory Museum. The museum is to honor the 70,000 people who died during the 20 years of political [...]

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