This Monday, July 3, it was announced that the Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa He is hospitalized in a Madrid for a new contagion of Covid-19. The information was released by his son Álvaro, through his official Twitter account.
“In view of the media’s interest in our father’s state of health, we make public that He has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family. We ask the media to respect his privacy and ours at this time, ”wrote the son of the Peruvian writer.
In view of the interest of the media in our father’s state of health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family. We urge the media…
— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) July 3, 2023
It should be remembered that the Nobel prize he had been hospitalized in April 2022 for the same cause. In recent months the 87-year-old writer had been very active; in April he was in Peru, in May he came to Mexico, among other literary and cultural activities.
But who is Mario Vargas Llosa, where and what did he study? There is no doubt that Vargas Llosa is known worldwide and recognized as one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?
Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, Peru. The writer, journalist and politician received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.
The writer was also visiting professor at various universities of Great Britain, the United States, Puerto Rico, Germany and Spain, and president of the International Pen Club. In addition, he is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language since 1975 and of the French Academy since November 2021.
It has been distinguished with awards such as: the Rómulo Gallegos Award in 1967, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 1986, the Planeta Award in 1993, the Cervantes Award in 1994 and the Ibero-American Libertad Cortes de Cádiz Award in 2014.
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Among the works of the novelist and essayist are: The city and the Dogs (1962), The Green House (1965), Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Pantaleon and the Visitors (1973), The War of the End of the World (1981), the truth of the lies (1990), Lituma in the Andes (1993), The Goat Party (2003), Mischief of the Bad Girl (2006) and The Celtic Dream (2010), Conversations in Princeton (2017), Hard Times (2019), between many more.
In addition, the Peruvian collaborated as a columnist in different media, both in Peru and in France and other countries, an activity that has continued until today. His column Piedra de toque is published biweekly in the newspaper El País.
His political life. Vargas Llosa He was a Democratic Front candidate in the 1990 Peruvian presidential elections, which gave victory to Alberto Fujimori.
What study?
The writer He studied Literature and Law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
“I was seventeen years old when I entered San Marcos to pursue studies in Letters and Law, the first by vocation and the second for resigned food reasons. My admission to this University was a manifestation of rebellion. My family would have preferred that I study at the Catholic University, where young people from a “good family” went, “he wrote in one of his newspaper columns. The Country, in 2001.
In 1958 he obtained the “Javier Prado” scholarship at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy and Letters. A year later he moves to Paris, and there he works in different media.
2023-07-03 23:13:28
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