(14 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 14 April 2025
1. Writer Mario Vargas Llosa’s house in Lima
2. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, son of the writer, arriving at his father’s house
3. Various shots of floral arrangements arriving
4. Granddaughters of the writer arriving, daughters of Alvaro Vargas Llosa (son of Mario)
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Gamarra, neighbour:
"Sadness, much sadness, he has been a great person and a great writer."
6. Neighbour walking with his little dog
7. Press
8. Various shots of newspapers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 13 April 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriel Rimachi, writer and editor of Writer’s Circle Magazine"
"And we are left as readers, with the satisfaction that at least he had dedicated an issue (of Writers’ Circle) to him during his lifetime, well obviously we are sad about him leaving us, but we are also aware that we are left with a very valuable work of a writer who brought a Nobel prize to Peru."
10. Various of Rimachi holding and showing an edition of his magazine which was issued in March and dedicated to Vargas Llosa
11. Photographers and camera operator recording at building
STORYLINE:
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.
His family was gathering early Monday at his house in Lima, Peru.
He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won myriad prizes.
The Nobel committee said it was awarding him in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat."
“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,” read a letter signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, and posted by Álvaro on X.
The letter says that his remains will be cremated and that there won’t be any public ceremony.
“His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we hope that they will find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him,” they added.
The author’s lawyer and close friend, Enrique Ghersi, confirmed the death to The Associated Press and recalled the writer’s last birthday on March 28 at the home of his daughter, Morgana.
Tributes poured in for Vargas Llosa.
In Spain, where he spent long stretches of his life, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia expressed their condolences, writing on social media that “the Olympus of universal literature has opened its doors to Mario Vargas Llosa.”
AP Video by Cesar Barreto and Mauricio Muñoz
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