Vargas Llosa’s crusade, a failure that seeded literary triumph, whispers a question: can stories outlive the frailty of those who write them?

Famed Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, slammed The New York Times on Sunday for publishing what he called “slanderous and perfidious” gossip culled from an article published by The Daily Mail, reports Poynter.