Member of the last generation that popularized Latin American literature in the world in the 60s and 70s, Vargas Llosa died at his house in Lima. The Nobel Prize in literature and author of over 30 novels had 89 years of age of a member of a gold generation of Latin American literature, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosamererere as they reported 89 years old, in his residence in Lima, the Nobel Prize family of literature 2010 on social networks.
Vargas Llosa joined the so -called “Latin American boom”, which popularized the literature of the region all over the world in the 60s and 70s, together with other big names such as Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, Argentine Julio Cortázar and Mexicans Carlos Fuentes and Juan Rig.
“With deep pain, we made public that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, died peacefully today in Lima, surrounded by his family,” wrote his son Álvaro Vargas Llosa in his account on the X network.
“Your departure sad that your relatives, your friends and readers all over the world, but we hope you find comfort, like us, in the fact that you have enjoyed a long, multiple and fruitful life and leaves you a work that will survive,” says the message.
The family explained that, in the next few days, it will proceed “according to its instructions”, including “no public ceremony”.
“Our mother, our children and we trust that we will have space and privacy to greet him as a family and in the company of his closest friends. As he wanted, his remains will be cremated,” says the message.
Back to Lima and ex -wife
Vargas Llosa returned to live in his apartment in the capital of Peru, in the Boémien district of Barranco and overlooking the Pacific Ocean in 2022, where he resumed his relationship with his wife, Patricia Llosa, and walks for the city.
In November last year he visited the place where the Cathedral of La Cathedrale was located, which inspired his famous conversation for novels to the cathedral, published in 1969. A few days earlier, Álvaro Vargas Llosa published a photo of his father in front of the Leôncio Prado Military College, where he studied and where he said, as he said, he consolidated his literary vocation.
The author of Baptism of Fire (1963) and the litums in the Andes (1993) won the Nobel Prize for the 2010 literature for his “cartography of power structures and resistance, rebellion and defeat of the individual”.
Vargas Llosa became the first author to join the French Academy of letters without having works in French in February 2023. In his speech, he said that “Thanks to France”, where he began to write some of his most important novels, he discovered “another Latin America”.
He has always shown a great ability and discipline for work and a vital desire that led him to be involved in several fields beyond writing. For example, he was a candidate for the presidency of Peru in 1990.
With a life marked by success – with the exception of the failure of his political experience – the appreciation for readers and all possible prizes (Nobel, Cervantes and Prince of Astuias, among others), Vargas Llosa faced his father’s resistance, an authoritarian man who never wanted to be a writer.
In recent months, Barranco’s residents have become accustomed to the image of Vargas Llosa, supported by his stick, walking through the corners of his beloved Lima.
Important voice of Latin American literature
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru on March 28, 1936. He spent his childhood in Bolivia with his single mother, who belonged to the Peruvian middle class, before the whole family settled in the north of Peru.
As a teenager, he attended the Leôncio Prado Military College of Lima and then worked as a local journalist. Vargas Llosa published his first stories as a law student and literature in the late 1950s. In 1959, he moved to Paris for a few years.
His first novel, Baptism of Fire, was published in 1963 and became an immediate success. The book takes place at the military college to which he attended when he was a teenager. Three years later, Green House was published, also set in Peru. The work has certainly consolidated the reputation of Vargas Llosa as a new most important voice in Latin America.
In the following decades, Vargas Llosa wrote several other successful novels, including The War of the End of the World (1981), on the War of Canudos, a work that dedicates to the Brazilian writer Euclides from Cunha, author of OS Sertants.
Other works by the writer include “Pantaleão and the Visitors” (1973), “Who killed Palomino Molero?” (1986), “Praise of the stepmother” (1988) and The notebooks of Dom Rigoberto “(1997).
Political activity
Vargas Llosa has lived in many cities in the world throughout his career and has taught universities in the United States, South America and Europe. From 1976 to 1979, he was president of the International Association of Writers Pen. He was also politically active during his career. Like many other writers of his generation, he was influenced by Marxism in his youth, but then he turned to liberal democracy. In 1990, he applied for the presidency of Peru, but was not elected, losing against the authoritarian Alberto Fujimori.
Later, he became Spanish citizen. King Juan Carlos raised Vargas Llosa to the nobility in 2011 and granted him the hereditary title of Marquis de Vargas Llosa. In an interview with the Danish canal of Louisiana in 2020, the author warned that “the images replaced ideas as the great protagonists of contemporary culture”. A phenomenon that worries you, “because if the images completely replace ideas, the powerful of this world will be able to manipulate society very easily”.
In his last years of life, however, Vargas Llosa began to stay on the right, even declaring support for Keiko Fujimori’s presidential candidacy – Alberto’s daughter – in 2021 and claiming in 2022 that he would have preferred to see Jair Bolsonaro beat Lula in Brazil.
Privacy
Mario Vargas Llosa was married twice. His second marriage to Patricia, his first grade cousin, lasted over 50 years. In 2015, the Nobel Prize in literature became the goal of the paparazzi when he was publicly revealed his love story with Isabel Preysler, ex -wife of the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and widow of the former Spanish minister of the Economy Miguel Boyer and Vargas Llosa left his wife Patricia. Preysler and Vargas Llosa separated by 2022.
Vargas Llosa also had a great friendship with the Colombian writer García Márquez, who ended abruptly with a Peruvian punch in an episode surrounded by mystery. “Biographers can take this theme,” said Vargas Llosa.
Source: Terra
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