Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, 87, is hospitalized. His family reported that he contracted COVID-19 and has been in a hospital in Madrid since Saturday.
On Twitter, his children made the announcement. It is the second time that the Peruvian-Spanish author has been infected with the virus.
Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa released a statement in which they said: “He has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with covid-19,” they assured that they are making it public “in view of the interest of the media in the state of health.”
In view of the media’s interest in our father’s state of health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family. We urge the media…
— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) July 3, 2023
on Friday Vargas Llosa was at the Atlantic Forum in Madridthere he offered his speech to several former presidents of Latin America.
In April 2022 he had already been hospitalized for COVID in Madrid, in a process that took several days that progressed favourably.
Last May, Vargas Llosa expressed his wishand “spend long periods in the Dominican Republic” and, before that decision, the president of the Caribbean country, Luis Abinader, asked him to accept Dominican citizenship.
The novelist prize described the Abinader government as “intelligent and sensible” in the context of a Latin America that “is going through some very difficult times. Vargas Llosa became the first Spanish-language author to enter the French Language Academy, last February, and in his speech he assured that “thanks to
France”, where he began to write some of his most outstanding novels, he discovered “another Latin America”.
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