Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate and leading figure in Latin American literature, has died aged 89. Over a 50 year career he charted power and corruption in a series of novels including The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral and The Feast of the Goat. In a colourful life he also launched a failed bid for the Peruvian presidency and nursed a long-running feud with Gabriel García Márquez.
He was born 28 March 1936 12.45 am Arequipa, Peru, with his parents splitting before his birth and he was told his father had died. After an unsettled childhood he started working as a crime reporter when he was just 15. Aged 19 he eloped with his 32-year-old aunt by marriage and was subsequently married twice.
His Aries Sun was in his communication 3rd house and he had the creative Saturn (Venus) in Pisces opposition Neptune of the mid 1930s which is his case squared onto a restless and thoughtful Gemini Moon opposition Jupiter.
An intense Pluto in his 7th house of close relationship square Mars in Aries in his 4th conjunct Uranus which would make for a heated domestic atmosphere and challenging relationships. Not an easy temperament to live with.
His creative harmonics were strong.
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