Miscellaneous

A ray of light hits my face—sharp and blinding. I raise my hand to block it, but it’s no use. Turning to my side, I try to drift back to sleep, but the noise around me makes it impossible. I hear someone—probably my grandmother—telling my brother to go buy groceries. Voices echo from every corner […]

The Moon knows all about my lonely nights as a child after every argument I had with my parents or one of my siblings pissed me off as I storm off outside to take a breather to the back yard to look up at the moon and just wish for a comfortable and peaceful life

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country. Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America, while also writing essays that made him one of the most influential political commentators in the Spanish-speaking world, died on Sunday in Lima. He was 89.