Mainstream WeeklyThe death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American boon has faded. As Angel Esteban del Campo of University of Granada, Spain, writes,
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