Vargas Llosa has been suffering from an incurable disease for five years.

In the summer of 2020, Mario Vargas Llosa received a far-reaching medical news: he suffered from an incurable illness. This is what he recounts in his April 15 edition of El País. Vargas Llosa had lived with Isabel Preysler for five years, for whom he left the mother of his three children, Patricia Llosa. However, according to the newspaper, the writer wrote a letter to Alvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, the 'tribe', as he called them, to tell them ab…

Mario Vargas Llosa knew for almost five years that he was going to die. The doctors announced it to him in the summer of 2020. According to the writer’s closest environment to EL PAÍS, one of the first things that the Nobel Prize in Literature did after receiving the news was to write a letter to his three children: Álvaro, Morgana and Gonzalo. In it, he told them about his illness, a serious illness, in his case without cure, but for which ther…

For five years, Mario Vargas Llosa knew he was going to die soon. In 2020, the Nobel Prize in Literature, who died on Sunday, was diagnosed with a “serious illness without a cure,” which he did not want to make public, told a source close to the writer to the Spanish newspaper El País. Knowing his diagnosis, the first thing the Peruvian author did was write a letter to his three children: Álvaro, Morgana and Gonzalo, to tell them of his illness …

Last Sunday, April 13, Mario Vargas Llosa died at the age of 89 in his residence in Lima, Peru. The writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature died

The Nobel family respected his wish and did not reveal the cause of death of the writer, which could have been pneumonia.