At 89, the renowned Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died

This Sunday, April 13, at 89, the renowned died Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the greatest exponents of Latin American culture and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. His legacy is marked by works such as “Conversation in the cathedral “,” The city and dogs “or” The Chivo party “.

The news that generated strong shock throughout the literary world was confirmed by his family, which through a statement said that He died in Lima surrounded by his loved ones and in an environment of peace.

“With deep pain, we make public that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, has died today in Lima, surrounded by his family and in peace. His departure will be sad to his relatives, his friend and his readers around the worldbut we hope they find comfort, like us, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, multiple and fruitful life, and leaves behind his work that will survive him, “they said in the text.

In the statement, signed by their three children (Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa), in addition to highlighting the literary legacy that his father left, they reported that There will be no public ceremony to say goodbye and that will fulfill their last will by incinerating their remains.

Finally, they asked for privacy to cross the Moment of grief since they want to say goodbye in an intimate environment accompanied by family and loved ones.

In the past months, they had circulated on social networks rumors about his delicate state of healthalthough his son Álvaro had denied them with two photos in his X account. In one he saw the writer with his wife Patricia holding hands, sitting on a white armchair. In the second, I was reading a book.

Mario Vargas Llosa’s literary legacy

In 2023, the veteran writer published his latest novel, I dedicate my silence. At that time he had announced that this would be his fallen from fiction.

Its final publication arrived two months later when it wrote for the last time the journalistic column in the newspaper El País de España, which was published biweekly since 1990. In these articles, it not only talked about culture but also submerged political and social today.

At 74, and with a long career on his back, the writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his cartography of the structures of power and his sharp images of resistance, rebellion and defeat of the individual,” they said from the Swedish Academy in 2010.

His narrative work was characterized by the importance of Technical experimentation. By this aspect, it is considered a reference of the novelistic composition and a prominent Innovative of narrative and stylistic possibilities.

From the thematic point of view, their novels deal with Antinomy between the historical and the structuralas expressed by the title of several of his novels, such as The city and dogs, the green house, or conversation in the cathedral.

The novel was the most frequent genre throughout his career although he also became strong through essays to position himself politically and comment on social news.

The author began his literary rise with the publication of the novel “The city and dogs”which made it one of the fundamental figures of the Boom of Hispanic -American literature of the 1960s. Since then, he left his brand with new publications such as “Pantaleón and the visitors”, “La Fiesta del Chivo” and “RECIOUS TIMES”

His work was translated into more than 30 languages ​​and taken to cinema and theater, and even ventured into the performance.