The writer Mario Vargas Llosa, 86, “he beat Covid” and has been discharged from the hospital, so now he is going home “to continue with the recovery”, as announced today by his daughter Morgana on Twitter.
The Nobel Prize for Literature was admitted to a clinic in Madrid due to “some complications related” to the disease, as reported in a brief statement last Friday by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana.
“MVLL beat Covid. Now, home to continue with the recovery. Thank you life-saving science and medical staff for their dedication. We will always be very grateful to them. They have been fighting this pandemic for years. All our admiration for you”, reads the message published today Monday on Twitter.
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It is accompanied by a photo in which Vargas Llosa is seen, smiling, together with his three children, apparently still in the clinic, but dressed in street clothes. The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) postponed the event scheduled for last Tuesday in which Mario Vargas Llosa was going to talk with the director of the entity, Santiago Muñoz Machado, about his book ‘Cervantes’ and that it was going to mark the beginning of the Cervantes Week, on the occasion of the awarding of the Cervantes Prize.
Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) has, in addition to the Nobel Prize awarded in 2010 other recognitions such as the Cervantes in 1994 and the Prince of Asturias of Letters in 1986, and is the author of works such as “La ciudad y los perro” (1963) and “La fiesta del Chivo” (2000).
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