The health of Mario Vargas Llosa It has been worrying for some time since this summer he was seen looking somewhat worse, using a cane to walk. The absence of the Peruvian writer in the tribute The fact that the Vargas Llosa Chair has been organizing in his honor for four years has only increased speculation about his true state.
Now it was his son, Álvaro Vargas Llosa, who has updated his father’s situationwho is at his home in Lima, Peru. At 88 years old, the Nobel Prize winner is not going through his best moment, as his family member has mentioned. Some words that have generated a lot of concern about how he is feeling.
The absence of Mario Vargas Llosa from his party has increased rumors about his delicate state of health
On Friday, October 18, it was scheduled that Mario Vargas Llosa will appear in Madrid to preside over the event with which, every year, the Chair that bears his name honors him. An event that is celebrated under the name ‘Meeting of Culture in Freedom’ at chef Mario Sandoval’s farm in El Escorial. It is an appointment that the Nobel Prize in Literature never misses and, however, This year it will not have your presenceas reported by Paloma Barrientos in ‘Vanitatis’.
It is the first time in the history of the meeting that Isabel Preysler’s former partner did not go to the exclusive home on the outskirts of the capital of Spain to receive the recognition in person. Hence the growing concern about his health, which has been a cause of concern in recent timess. After hearing the news, speculation about how he is doing has been constant, to the point that his son Álvaro has had to come forward to convey his true situation.
Mario Vargas Llosa and his son Álvaro, in their last image together.
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At first, far from dispelling doubts, Patricia Llosa’s son also provoked with his words that the rumors that have Mario Vargas Llosa at the center of current news events would intensify. This after explaining that it was his state of health that has prevented him from traveling to our country to be present at his tribute. “My father is almost 89 years old, he is on the threshold of 90, an age at which he has to reduce the intensity of his activities.but it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have it. He has intellectual activity and a very intense family activity,” indicated the essayist last Thursday, one day before the important event organized within the framework of the Vargas Llosa Chair.
Given the commotion, Álvaro Vargas Llosa has been forced to clarify his initial statement with new statements about his father’s state of health. He wanted to make it clear that the writer “is fine, he is very well; his health is stable” and there is no reason to worry. “He is in very good spirits, he is reading, he is doing the cultural life that he can do“he added, thus conveying a sense of tranquility among his father’s followers.
The reason that led Mario Vargas Llosa to rule out his presence at the tribute to someone who has never been absent
According to the information handled by Paloma Barrientos, although Mario Vargas Llosa will not preside ‘in situ’ the tribute that has been organized for him in El Escorial, he will be present through a videoconference from his residence in Lima. The doctors’ recommendation has been the turning point that has ended up convincing the Nobel Prize winner that A transatlantic trip from Peru to Madrid and back is not recommended at your age.. Álvaro will be the one who presides over the cultural event on his behalf.
“My father is dividing his time between Spain and Peru and he has just been in Europe and Spain in the summer and now he has to be there. Therefore, he will not be present either in tomorrow’s activity or in the activities of the coming weeks, but he will be in the future,” clarified the son of the Nobel Prize winner, who is confident that we will soon be able to see Mario Vargas Llosa in our country, recovering and showing off the energy that characterizes it less than two years after turning 90.“He’s not writing much, as you know, he’s not writing much anymorehe already announced it publicly, but he is also very aware of what we do both in the foundation and in the chair,” stated Álvaro Vargas Llosa.
The event that Mario Vargas Llosa will miss for the first time will have the presence of illustrious guests such as the former presidents of Mexico and Chile, Felipe Calderón and Eduardo Frei; Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo; José Luis Martínez Almeida; Ana Botella or Ághata Ruiz de la Prada. Edmundo González, the winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela exiled in Spain, is also expected to attend.