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The Peruvian-Spanish novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, 87, has been hospitalized in Madrid for covid-19 since last Saturday, the second time the writer has been admitted for this disease, his children reported Monday in a Twitter message.
A brief statement signed by Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa confirmed that the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010) “has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with covid-19” and they assured that they are making it public “in view of the interest of the media due to the state of health” of the writer.
The veteran writer, who is admitted to a hospital in Madrid, the city where he usually resides, was in Peru a few weeks ago attending private activities, when he was seen accompanied by his children and his ex-wife Patricia Llosa.
His children added that “he is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family” and asked the media to “respect his privacy at this time.”
A few weeks ago, Peruvian lawyer and former Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano shared a photograph of Vargas Llosa signing his affiliation to the new Libertad Popular party, an act he described as “an honor.”
Last May, Vargas Llosa expressed his desire to “spend long periods of time in the Dominican Republic” and, faced with that decision, the president of that country, Luis Abinader, asked him to accept Dominican citizenship.
The award-winning novelist 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”.
In April 2022, Vargas Llosa was also hospitalized for several days with covid-19 in a Madrid hospital.
Vargas Llosa is hospitalized for the second time in Madrid for covid-19
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