By Klaus Blume

Lima - The Peruvian Nobel Prize winner for literature Mario Vargas Llosa (†89) is dead.

He died on Sunday (local time) in Lima at the age of 89, as announced by his son Álvaro Vargas Llosa on the X platform. His agency confirmed the death to the German Press Agency.

He was one of the great Spanish-language writers. He was one of those who made Latin American literature known throughout the world.

A true citizen of the world, he was at home both on his native continent and in Europe. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work in 2010.

Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa and, like many other writers, he began his career as a journalist.

He published his first novel, "The City and the Dogs", in 1962 (Engl. 1966). In it, he turned his time in a Peruvian cadet school into a grandiose study of authoritarian systems. It was an immediate international success.