Peruvian novelist and former politician Mario Vargas Yosa has died at the age of 89.
Yosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature for his life’s work.
In 1990 he even ran for the Peruvian presidency but lost to Alberto Fujimori.
Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez takes a look back at his life.
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