Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique, one of the last exponents of the Latin American literary boom, has died at the age of 87, as announced Tuesday by the House of Peruvian Literature and the Vargas Llosa Chair on their social media accounts, and later confirmed by Peruvian writer Jorge Eduardo Benavi. Bryce Echenique wrote novels such as A world for Julius, The exaggerated life of Martín Romaña and Nighttime prisonerwho won the National Narrative Prize in 1998. Four years later he won the Planeta Prize for The garden of my belovedIn 2012, he won the Guadalajara International Book Fair award as a "great chronicler of life" with prose "full of good humor, satirical wit, and a fantastic record of orality."