<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Spanish Government has mourned the death of the Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner in Literature and Cervantes Prize winner, who died this Sunday in Lima at the age of 89.</strong></h4> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="lRu31" dir="ltr"><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">“The Olympus of universal literature has opened its doors to Mario Vargas Llosa,” the Royal Household declared on social media.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">“Thank you always for all his immense work to our eternal Spanish-Peruvian,” it continued.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">“Our deepest condolences to all his family and friends,” it concluded.</span></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr"></div> <div dir="ltr">"Spanish literature bids farewell to Mario Vargas Llosa, a universal master of words," wrote Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on social media. "My gratitude as a reader for an immense body of work, for so many key books for understanding our time," he continued. "On behalf of the Government of Spain, I send my heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and the large community of readers around the world," he concluded.</div> </div> <span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">"Mario Vargas Llosa, the Ibero-American author of a universal literary work in our equally universal language, has left us," wrote Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">"My condolences to his family and friends," he added.</span></span></span> "Winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1994 and Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was one of the greatest authors of the Latin American boom and a leading figure in Spanish literature in the last century," the Ministry of Culture stated in a message on social media. "We regret his passing. Rest in peace," it added.
