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Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work explored the dangers of totalitarianism and who once ran for president, has died at the age of 89, according to his family.
Vargas Llosa is best remembered for novels such as Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), The War of the End of the World (1981), and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), the latter of which was adapted into the 1990 film Tune in Tomorrow, starring Barbara Hershey and Keanu Reeves.
Vargas Llosa is best remembered for novels such as Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), The War of the End of the World (1981), and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), the latter of which was adapted into the 1990 film Tune in Tomorrow, starring Barbara Hershey and Keanu Reeves.