Death of Mario Vargas Llosa: how were his last years fighting a hard disease

The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas LlosaNobel Prize for Literature 2010, died on April 13 in Lima at 89 years of age. During his last moments alive, he was accompanied Patricia Llosatheir three children and their seven grandchildren.

Your children Álvaro and Morgana were the ones who announced the death of their father and 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature through their social networks.

“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 friends and his readers around the world,” he reads in the shared statement.

The Nobel Prize died just a few days after celebrating its 89th birthday, last March 28. The last will of Vargas Llosa was to be veiled in a private strict and that his remains are cremated.

The long fight against a hard disease by Mario Vargas Llosa

Vargas Llosa knew for almost five years that he was going to die. The doctors announced it in the summer of 2020. As explained by the closest environment of the writer to El Diario El País, one of the first things he did after receiving the news was writing a letter to his three children: Álvaro, Morgana and Gonzalo. In it, He told them about his illness, a serious illnesswhere appropriate, but for which there were treatments that could delay the final outcome.

The writer decided to spend his last months of life in his native Lima, surrounded by his and attended in his own home by a team of professionals. His ex -wife, Patricia Llosa, was next to him.

According to the magazine, Hello!, Which he managed to talk with members of his most intimate circle, ‘Marito’, as they said of love, “I had been a bad week”. His relatives decided to travel to Lima to accompany him in the last chapters of his great history. “It was not suddenly,” he quotes the aforementioned medium.

During this last time, while his health allowed it, he dedicated himself to visiting the Lima scenarios of some of his most celebrated novels: the Leoncio Prado Military College and the old red neighborhood of Lima, a backdrop of the background of The city and dogs; The San Juan de Lurigancho prison, linked to his novel Mayta’s story; or the place where the Bar La Cathedral was built, which gives name to Conversation in the cathedral.

In the month of March, on the eve of his 89th birthday, he returned to the places where he set his last two novels, the five -corner area, in Barrios Altos, which names Five cornersand the inaccessible house where Felipe Pinglo was born, which served as inspiration to write I dedicate my silence.