Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89

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. …

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A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares, and Her Own

A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares, and Her Own

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three minutes, for weeks on end, a caregiver carefully, dispassionately sinks needles deep into the sutures on each finger, …

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