Vargas Llosa, hospitalized for the second time due to covid-19

Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa (87) has been hospitalized in Madrid for covid-19 since last Saturday, the second time the writer has been admitted for the disease, his children announced on Monday in a message on Twitter.

A short statement signed by Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa they confirmed that the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010) “has been in the hospital since Saturday after being diagnosed with covid-19” and assured that they are making this public “in view of the media’s interest in the health condition” of the writer.

The veteran writer, who was admitted to the hospital in Madridthe city where he normally resides, he was in Peru a few weeks ago for private activities, when he was seen in the company of his children and ex-wife Patricia Llosa.

His children added that “they treat him wonderfully professionals accompanied by his family” and asked the media to “respect his privacy at this time”.

A few weeks ago, a Peruvian lawyer and former prime minister Petar Cateriano he shared a photo of Vargas Llosa registering his affiliation with the new Libertad Popular party with his signature, an act he described as an “honor.”

Last May, Vargas Llosa expressed his desire to “spend a longer time in the Dominican Republic” and, faced with this decision, the president of that country, Luis Abinader, asked him to accept Dominican citizenship.

Award-winning novelist named Abinadier’s government “intelligent and sensible” in the context of Latin America which is “passing through very difficult times.

Vargas Llosa became the first Spanish-language writer to enter the French Language Academy last February, and in his speech he assured that “thanks to France,” where he began writing some of his most remarkable novels, he had discovered “another Latin America“.

In April 2022. Vargas Llosa He was also admitted for several days due to covid-19 in a Madrid hospital.