The young man at the Wetter Hotel

With the death of Vargas Llosa, a world closes. It is not only the world of his enormous work, because that end had already reached us a year and a half ago: when Vargas Llosa, on Le dedico’s last shocking page, announced that he would not write more fictions. No, it is not only that: the entire generation that broke out in the early sixties, that vast handful of novelists who broke into the rigid landscape of Franco’s Spain and transformed, per…

After the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Book Chamber reported that in the next edition of the International Book Fair in Lima (FIL 2025) it will be dedicated as a posthumous tribute to the Nobel of Literature. The president of the Peruvian Book Chamber, Ricardo Muguerza, gave this news in an interview with Radio Nacional. “The sooner we will meet to plan the most important and transcendent posthumous tribute that the Lima FIL has don…

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima, Peru, Sunday, April 13, 2025, at the age of 89. I propose to rediscover his intellectual journey from Marxism to liberalism. (Article originally written in 2016 and updated). I discovered Peru in 1984. Just married, my husband and I were flying to Lima for eighteen months, he as a cooperant assigned to the French-Peruvian Chamber of Commerce, and I in his luggage. At the time, a cooperant who …

On Monday, the Peruvian Government confirmed that no official posthumous ceremonies will be held in tribute to writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who died this Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, in fulfilment of the express will of the Nobel Prize and his relatives. Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén pointed out on the RPP that the president, Dina Boluarte, communicated with the relatives of Vargas Llosa after learning of his death and coordinated …

Following the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, Ricardo Muguerza, president of the C mara Peruana del Libro, confirms that his legacy will be honored at the International Book Fair of Lima 2025.