The Peruvian-Spanish novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, 87, has been hospitalized for covid-19 since last Saturday, which is the second time that the writer has been admitted for this disease, his children reported this Monday in a Twitter message.
The brief statement signed by Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa confirms that the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010) “He has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with covid-19”, and assures that they make it public “in view of the interest of the media in the state of health” of the writer.
In 2022, the author of “The city and the dogs” overcame a first contagion of COVID-19 for which he was admitted to a clinic in Madrid.
“He is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family. We ask the media to respect his privacy and ours,” adds the message from his children.
The novelist lives most of the time in Madrid -where he is hospitalized, reports AP-, although he also has a residence in Lima. The veteran writer was in Peru a few weeks ago attending private activities, when he was accompanied by his children and his ex-wife Patricia Llosa.