内容摘要：, presided over the graveside service for Sen. Ted Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in 2009, and celebrated Mass with Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to Washington.

, presided over the graveside service for Sen. Ted Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in 2009, and celebrated Mass with Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to Washington.

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.

Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)“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. “He spent it happy; his close friends surrounded him, he ate his cake, we joked that day that there were still 89 more years to go, he had a long, fruitful, and free life,” Ghersi said.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.”

Writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks at a rally in Lima, Peru, Aug. 21, 1987, to a crowd of more than 50,000 people. (AP Photo/A. Balaguer, File)

Writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks at a rally in Lima, Peru, Aug. 21, 1987, to a crowd of more than 50,000 people. (AP Photo/A. Balaguer, File), 88. A former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro. Jan. 5.

, 96. The founder of France’s far-right National Front was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him staunch supporters and widespread condemnation. Jan. 7., 86. The singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war. Jan. 7.

, 104. The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s. Jan. 8., 89. The surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave, which was known for such definitive hits of the era as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin.’” Jan. 10.