Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa87 years old, He was released from the Madrid hospital where he was admitted due to COVID almost a week ago, his son reported this Friday.

“My father has been discharged and recovered,” Álvaro Vargas Llosa wrote on Twitter, thanking the hospital where he was admitted and “countless people” who sent them “touching messages from many countries.”

Writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010settled in the capital of Spain, he was she was admitted on Saturday after suffering from this disease for the second time in fifteen months; for the first time in April 2022.

Vargas Llosa was one of the great protagonistsboom Latin American” together with the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, the Argentinian Julio Cortázar and the Mexican Carlos Fuentesof the literary phenomenon that made these then young creators famous all over the world in the sixties and seventies of the last century.

Born in the city of Arequipa in southern Peru On March 28, 1936, in a middle-class family, Vargas Llosa was educated by his mother and maternal grandparents in Cochabamba (Bolivia) and later in Peru.

His long literary career came to the fore in 1959, when he published his first book of short stories, Bosses, with which he received the Leopoldo Alas award. But he became a bad name with the publication of the novel City and dogs1963, and three years later Green house. He strengthened his prestige with his novel Conversation in the cathedral (1969).

followed after Pantaleon and visitors, Aunt Julia and the writer, War at the end of the world, Who killed Palomino Molero?, Lituma in the Andes and A fish in water (remembering the election campaign), A party of goats and a celtic dreampublished just before he won the Nobel Prize in 2010.