Peruvian Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. Credit Line: Imbrogno / Photogramma / Zuma Press / Profimedia
Mario Vargas Llosa, the last giant of Latin American literature, who died on Sunday, at the age of 89, visited Romania three times: in 1995, 2005 and 2013. The Nobel writer came to our country to present his books published in us, participated in shows and was awarded.
Laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa came for the first time in Bucharest between October 12 and 16, 1995, on the occasion of the launch of the autobiographical volume “Water fish”, published by Humanitas Publishing House, and for the opening of a photography exhibition of his daughter, Morgana.
Llosa returned to Romania in 2005. The Peruvian writer participated in the “Days and Nights of Literature” festival in Neptune, when the Writers' Union of Romania was awarded the Ovidius Prize, worth 10,000 euros, for “the value of the literary work and for the contribution to the affirmation of freedom of expression and interethnic tolerance”, noted the truth in 2010.
The last time the writer was in Romania was on May 19, 2013, this time in Cluj. The writer came with his wife, Patricia, and was greeted at the airport by a delegation from Babes-Bolyai University.
“I am very grateful to have been invited. It is my third visit to Romania and I am sure it will be as successful as the first two. I have pleasant memories of the first two visits to Romania,” said Mario Vargas Llosa, quoted by Adevărul.
“I am very grateful to my readers in Romania, I am glad that my volumes are also translated into this country. I think it is very important for a writer to be translated into a country with such a great cultural tradition,” said the writer.
Llosa was a crib, at the National Theater in Cluj, at a show that staged his play “One thousand and one nights”.
Mario Vargas Llosa also played in the play for about five minutes. At the end of the song, Mario Vargas Llosa climbed the stage, in the applause of the spectators.
“I liked it very much. I think it is very personal, very original youth, with some humor and also with a Latin American tint.
On May 20, 2013, in Cluj, the writer received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from Babes-Bolyai University.
The program of Mario Vargas Llosa in Romania ended on May 21, 2013 with a session of scientific communications, hosted by the Romanian writer Gabriel Liiceanu. The two wore a dialogue in front of the public, on the role of the role that fiction should play in our lives.
