The Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa has recently been in the spotlight as much for his personal life as for his work.
The 87-year-old Peruvian’s separation from the Spanish socialite Isabel Preysler and his reconciliation with Patricia Llosa, his cousin and former wife, appear to have caught the public imagination.
But now Vargas Llosa, hailed by some as one of the greatest living authors and the Hispanic world’s most celebrated living intellectual, has announced that he has written his last novel. “I’m saying goodbye to the novel because I am 87 years old and I cannot imagine that these stories, which take three or four years to construct, can be approached with all the rigour necessary at this stage of my life,” he
