The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, launched a new award for short story writing at the Buenos Aires Book Fair on Friday, two weeks after he was hospitalized for complications from Covid-19. .
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Appearing in good shape but with the help of a cane, the 86-year-old writer sponsored this prize via the chair of literature that bears his name and which aims to "
facilitate the lives of young people with a literary vocation but always have doubts when starting to write
”.
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The prize will be awarded for the first time in 2023 during the next book fair in the Argentine capital, the organizers said.
Mario Vargas llosa was released at the end of April from the Madrid hospital where he had been hospitalized due to complications linked to Covid-19.
Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, he is the last representative of the generation of Latin American writers known as the
Boom
to which also belonged the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Argentinian Julio Cortazar or the Mexican Carlos Fuentes.
Admired for his description of social realities but criticized by South American intellectual circles for his conservative positions, Vargas Llosa, translated into thirty languages, was the first foreign writer to enter during his lifetime in the prestigious French collection of the Pléiade. in 2016, the year of his 80th birthday.
Francophile, the author of
The City and the Dogs
or
La fête au bouc
was elected in December to the French Academy.
The Peruvian writer, naturalized Spanish in 1993, presented his latest work,
Le regard calme (by Pérez Galdos)
, an essay on the Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdos (1843-1920), at the beginning of April.
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