Mario Vargas Llosa continues to be hospitalized after being diagnosed with covid-19 in Madrid. The Nobel Prize for Literature was admitted last Saturday to the Ruber Clinic in the capital, as confirmed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa in a brief statement, “in view of the media’s interest in the state of health” of the writer.
A piece of news that has the relatives of the author of La ciudad y los perros submerged in the greatest concern, since it is the second time that he must be admitted due to the disease -let us remember that he already overcame a first contagion by the virus in 2022, for which he had to be 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,” his children request from their statement. However, the media have not been able to repress their interest in the writer’s health, and they remain waiting for news at the gates of the clinic, where his children and his ex-wife, Patricia Llosa, go to diary.
The writer remains isolated for the moment, following the protocols established in relation to the virus, but that does not mean that his family is dead from worry. That explains the nervousness and tension of Morgana Vargas Llosa, that she could not help but show the less friendly side of her to the press when she was intercepted by reporters looking for news about her father’s health.
The youngest daughter of the writer and Patricia Vargas was leaving the family residence accompanied by her husband, Stefan Reich, and being very nervous and tense, she refused to reveal how her father was. The Peruvian tried to avoid the cameras, without success.
“They never leave, who are they kidding,” she exclaimed, very angry, when asked for the umpteenth time by her father, to which she answered again with “No, please.” Reich, for her part, also preferred to remain silent as an answer.
As confirmed by sources close to the Vanitatis family, despite being aware of the seriousness of such a disease in a patient of his age, they are optimistic about the evolution of the Nobel, who suffers the typical symptoms of covid-19, including fever. A health setback that interrupts his social agenda and his latest projects.
A month ago, the man of letters received Dominican nationality, a country where he planned to settle for long periods of time; He was also writing and, just a few days ago, he was visiting the exclusive Valduero winery with his entire family.