Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was the last survivor of a golden generation of Latin American literary giants, his writing exploring universal themes often set outside his native Peru.
Admired for his depiction of social realities but criticised within Latin American intellectual circles for his conservative positions, Vargas Llosa -- who died Sunday at age 89 -- was a leading light of the "boom" generation that included greats like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Julio Cortazar.
