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The Problem With the Supreme Court's 'Shadow Docket'

Plus: Did Mario Vargas Llosa write the world’s greatest political novel?

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The Peruvian Nobel Prize winner

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mario Vargo Llosa. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button…

Radio France Internationale

The Liberal Legacy of Mario Vargas Llosa

The Peruvian novelist, who passed away this Sunday, was a lifelong defender of freedom in all its forms.

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Why Trump's China Tariffs Won't Work

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'The world of literature is mourning': How Mario Vargas Llosa brought Spanish to splendour

The world of literature is mourning the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner. He was 89. The author of 'The Feast of the goats' leaves behind an indelible legacy. With sadness and admiration, fans and friends have described him as an 'eternal scribe.'

Euronews

‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictions

The Guardian - UK

Mario Vargas Llosa obituary

Peruvian novelist, essayist and aspiring politician who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2010

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Farewell to Mario Vargas Llosa, the end of an era for Latin America’s literary luminaries

The death of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 1936 - Lima, 2025) marks the end of a Golden Age of Latin American literature. Just as there will not be another generation in Spain like that of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Góngora and…

The Conversation

Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

Peruvian authorities on Monday declared a day of mourning with flags to fly at half mast on government buildings following the death of the Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

Radio France Internationale

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies aged 89

Llosa was a prolific author and essayist with several celebrated novels including “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat.” He also won myriad awards, including the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Euronews

Nobel Literature Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Dies In Peru

Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died Sunday at the age of 89 in the Peruvian capital, his family announced on the social network X. Vargas Llosa's passing marks the close of the era of Latin America's literary golden generation, of which he was the last living member.

International Business Times

Vargas Llosa, Last Of Latin America's Literary Golden Generation

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was the last survivor of a golden generation of Latin American literary giants, his writing exploring universal themes often set outside his native Peru.

International Business Times

Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89

Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru

The Guardian - AU

Mario Vargas Llosa death: Peruvian Nobel literature laureate dies aged 89

Nobel literature laureate and giant of Latin American letters for many decades

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World Book Day: five unmissable Latin American classic novels

The Latin Times compiled a list of the most significant fiction books in Latin America

International Business Times

Netflix Releases Teaser For '100 Years Of Solitude'

Netflix on Wednesday released a sneak peek of its TV series adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning author's death.

The Guardian - US

Argentina’s far-right Milei angers Falklands veterans with Thatcher praise

Presidential candidate calls former UK prime minister one of ‘the great leaders in the history of humanity’ during debate

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Mario Vargas Llosa says latest novel will be his last

Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’

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Mexico 1968: Between repression and the fight for democracy

The XIX Olympic Games, held in Mexico from October 12 to 27, 1968, were the first to be hosted by a "developing" country. A long struggle had preceded the awarding of the JJOO to Mexico.

The Guardian - UK

Edith Grossman obituary

Exceptional translator of novels by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa as well as other Hispanic authors

Bangkok Post

Nobel winner Vargas Llosa recovering from Covid

MADRID: Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been discharged from the Madrid hospital where he was admitted at the weekend for complications linked to Covid-19, his son said Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator

Radio France Internationale

Macron dinner for Vargas Llosa and controversial Spanish former king

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Friday have dinner with Spain's exiled former king Juan Carlos I and Peruvian Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The literature laureate joined the élite French Academy on 9 February.

Radio France Internationale

Peruvian Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa joins French Academy

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has been chosen to join the French national linguistic watchdog, the Académie Française, becoming the first member of the élite institution never to have written a book in French.

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell and Are You Happy Now by Hanna Jameson.

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