On March 28, Mario Vargas Llosa will turn 88 years old. The Nobel Prize winner is currently in our country, but alarms about a possible worsening of his health were raised last Sunday after it was reported that the writer was hospitalized with a “not favorable” prognosis.
It was the journalist Aurelio Manzano who gave new information about the health of the author of titles such as La fiesta del chivo in his program, Fiesta; which caused the writer’s publisher, Alfaguara, to come out to deny it with a statement: the writer is fine and is not in any hospital.
Aurelio Manzano shared the information received about the health of the Nobel Prize winner, who already had to be hospitalized in July of last year after being infected with coronavirus for the second time. The author was treated at the Ruber clinic in Madrid, where it was suspected that he could be again. Manzano, for his part, said he wanted to wait to have some type of confirmation before telling complete information about his new condition.
With doubt sown, everyone began to speculate what could happen to the author of The War at the End of the World. Apparently, the writer’s neighbors have not seen him around his house for quite some time, so his followers are attentive to any news.
However, there is – apparently – nothing to worry about. From Alfaguara they confirmed to the newspaper La Razón that the writer was fine and “there is no aggravation or admission”, thus denying Aurelio Manzano’s information.
Álvaro Vargas Llosa, son of the writer and who normally speaks out about what is happening with his father through his social networks, has not commented on the matter. However, he did take a moment to call attention to another user who dared to publish that his father had died at the beginning of this month.
For the moment, only Alfaguara’s confirmation of the writer’s good health and no hospital admission is the latest official news.
It must be remembered that the Nobel Prize winner has had some serious health setbacks in recent years, which left him somewhat delicate, but nothing that prevented him from continuing with his professional commitments around the world.
