Vargas Llosa died at 89

The writer Mario Vargas Llosa died yesterday at age 89 in Lima, Peru, surrounded by his family and peacetheir children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa spread. The novelist, last living representative of the boom Latin American, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 for its cartography of the power structures and their scathing images of the resistance, the rebellion and the defeat of the individualaccording to the organizers.

The brief statement for his death recorded that the essayist’s departure He will be sad to his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, 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.

Their children reported that they will comply with the provisions of the narrator and will not be developed No public ceremony. Our mother, our children and ourselves trust to have the space and privacy to fire him as a family and in the company of nearby friends. His remains, as was his will, will be incinerated.

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1936, in a middle class family. Until 10 years of age he lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Then he moved to the Peruvian city of Piura, where he said that his native country began to know. Later, he lived with his family in Lima. Since 1993 he had Spanish and Dominican nationality from 2022.

He got international notoriety with the novels The city and dogs (1963), The Green House (1966) y Conversation in the cathedral (1969), which later accentuated with its exploration of literary genres such as essay, article and theater, as well as subsequent novels such as THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD, The goat party y Celta’s dreamlocated in other countries.

He won the 1994 Cervantes Awards, the Prince of Asturias of the Letters in 1986, the Romulo Gallegos in 1967 and the planet in 1993, among others.

In the 80s he opted for liberalism and in 1990 he was a candidate for the presidency of Peru, a election he lost in the second round in front of change candidate 90, Alberto Fujimori. In 2011 he received the appointment of First Marqués de Vargas Llosa, from King Juan Carlos of Spain.

When it was announced that the Nobel Prize for Literature won, the narrator commented: I think it is a recognition of Latin American literature and Spanish -language literature, that should be happy to all.

Around recognition, he mentioned that the writing of the region In recent decades, a right in the world of culture has gradually conquered. When I was young and began to write it was practically ignored in the rest of the world.

A short time before the Nobel Prize for Literature, Vargas Llosa said in an interview with The day (10/8/2010) that democratic customs in Mexico “barely begin to take root; democracy will take time, because it came out of 70 years of a dictatorial government, which kept certain forms, yes, but it was a dictatorship that controlled power and that it did not even hesitate to resort to brutal repressions when it was needed.

That is a very strong tradition that weighs on Mexican society. There is a very large change, because today Mexico is an open society where the right of criticism is exercised very visible, but there are still those intolerances that dictatorships usually produce and that the political debate tweet.

The Spanish naturalized writer considered that the violence that accompanies drug trafficking It is terrible, cruel, sadistic, that leaves it to a paralyzed of fright. But you have to give a battle to win, you can’t miss. If Mexico loses it, it is a battle that Latin America will have to free, because drug trafficking is a criminal industry that has taken advantage of globalization better than anyone.

Vargas Llosa was close to another Nobel Prize in Latin American Literature and also attached to boom Latin American, Gabriel García Márquez. In 1966 they had a disagreement they never wanted to speak in public. Photographer Rodrigo Moya narrated in The dayon March 6, 2007, what he knew from hematoma in the left eye and a nose wound for a punch that his colleague had given him and until that moment a great friend.

Moya said that Gabo attributed the aggression to differences insurmountable because author of THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD He leaned towards the right -wing thought, while the narrator born in Aracataca was still faithful to the causes of the left.

Mercedes Barcha told the photographer that in a private film exhibition Gabriel García met the Peruvian and when he was going to greet him with open arms Vargas Llosa He received it with a dry blow.

According to the version, the fact had its origin that while both couples lived in Paris, the García Márquez mediated in the conjugal disagreements between Vargas Llosa and his wife, Patricia. When the first was reconciled with his wife, She felt seriously offended and her fury resolved her in that expeditious and wild way.