Rezo Kiknadze, a 26-year-old detained during anti-government protests in Tbilisi in December, faces six years in prison. In a Georgian court, Kiknadze addressed the judge and quoted Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel The Feast of the Goat: “This book is about a tyrant’s end — in the end, everyone leaves the dictator and he dies alone.”

It’s proof that Vargas Llosa’s critiques of authoritarianism will continue to inspire long after his death. The 89-year-old writer died on April 13, in his home in Peru.