Mario Vargas Llosa has died this Sunday, April 13 in the city of Lima at age 89. Considered one of the most important writers of contemporary literature, he was the author of works such as ‘Conversation in the Cathedral’, ‘The city and dogs’ or ‘The Chivo party’. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was the year he published ‘Celta’s dream’.
In 2023 he edited his latest novel, ‘I dedicated my silence’, which openly supposed his farewell, and also said goodbye to his facet of columnist in media such as the country, where he had the tribune called «Touch stone«.
The statement of his children indicates that “his departure will be sad to his relatives, his friends and his readers, but we hope they find comfort, like us, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, multiple and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a work that will survive him».
They also ensure that, following their “instructions”, “no public ceremony will not take place”: “Our mother, our children and ourselves trust to have the space and privacy to fire him as a family and in the company of close friends. His remains, as was his will, will be incinerated. ”
Apart from his work as a novelist and multiple awards, from Cervantes to the Prince of Asturias; Vargas Llosa was news for his political drift -of communism in his youth to liberalism from the 80s, presenting himself to the elections of Peru in 1990 -and for his partners, which included his cousin Patricia Llosa Urquidi, and Isabel Preysler between 2015 and 2022.
