Remembering the great Mario Vargas Llosa

The great Peruvian novelist and classical liberal Mario Vargas Llosa passed away on April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.

Vargas Llosa was a key figure driving the Latin American Boom of literature in the 1960s and 1970s, with classic works like “The Time of the Hero,” “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” and “Conversation in The Cathedral.”

He would go on to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions to the written word, particularly “for his cartography of structures of...