Peruvian writer continues to inspire

The newly crowned Nobel laureate in literature, 74-year-old Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, is no stranger to Chinese readers.

Vargas Llosa was introduced to the country in the early 1980s amid the craze for Latin-American writers, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

By the 1990s, this craze had died down as readers were confronted with more choices.