The Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosaby 87 years old, hospitalized for COVID-19 since last saturday meaning the second time the writer is hospitalized for this diseasetheir children reported on Monday in a Twitter message.

The short statement signed by Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa confirmed that the Nobel Prize in Literature (2010) “has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with COVID-19”, although They do not specify the city in which it is locatedand assured they would make it public “given the media’s interest in the writer’s health condition”.

The veteran writer was in Peru a few weeks ago to attend private activities, when he was joined by his children and his ex-wife Patricia Llosa. However, Vargas Llosa mostly lives in Madrid, where he spends a long time.

His children added that “he is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family”, asking the media to “respect his privacy at this time”.

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A few weeks ago, Peruvian lawyer and former Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano shared a photo of Vargas Llosa signing his entry into the new Libertad Popular party, an act he described as “an honor”.

On the other hand, last May Vargas Llosa expressed a desire to “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 award-winning novelist described Abinader’s government as “intelligent and sensible” in the context of Latin America which is “going through 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 writing some of his most remarkable novels, he discovered “another Latin America”. .

In April 2022, Vargas Llosa was also admitted for a few days for COVID-19.