Alvaroson of Mario Vargas Llosa y Patricia Llosahas revealed on his social networks that the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macronhas invited to dinner this Friday the King Juan Carlos and the Peruvian Nobel in the Elysee.
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The emeritus is in Paris next to the infanta christina, since the writer has invited him this Thursday, February 9, to his admission to the French Academy. For the emeritus, this was his first social and public event since his march to Abu Dhabi in the summer of 2020.
As explained by one of the participants in the solemn academic ceremony in Paris, they were King Juan Carlos and President Felipe Gonzalez who (in 1993) made the writer’s Spanish nationality possible, when the dictatorial government of Peru was about to strip him of his. In correspondence, Vargas Llosa wanted to show the king emeritus his gratitude for that important gesture. In addition, the Marquis of Vargas Llosa holds the noble title created on February 3, 2011 by his illustrious guest this Thursday, King Juan Carlos I. He granted it to recognize the work of the writer, Prince of Asturias Award for Letters (1986 ), Cervantes Prize (1994) and Nobel Prize for Literature.
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“Thank you for what you have done for Spain. No one with even the slightest knowledge of the role you have played for Spain to be a European liberal democracy can fail to acknowledge it. Macron, who has invited both of you to dinner tomorrow with Javier Cercas, recognizes it too”, the writer’s son wrote on Twitter along with some photographs of the emeritus and his father on this special day for the author of The city and the Dogs.
Thank you for what you have done for Spain. No one with even the slightest knowledge of the role that Spain has played in becoming a European liberal democracy can fail to recognize it. Macron, who has invited them both to dinner tomorrow along with Javier Cercas, also recognizes it. pic.twitter.com/HqtGrBzeFD
— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) February 9, 2023
With his appointment, the Spanish-Peruvian Nobel Prize winner is the first writer to enter the institution without having published books in French (not translated). Founded in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the academy, located opposite the Louvre Museum, on the rive gauche of the Seine, has become for a few hours the epicenter of Gallic culture. His ex-wife was also present at the event, with whom he has approached positions after his breakup with Isabella Preysler.
My father and his work owe as much to no one as to her. My father has proclaimed it many times in public, he often repeats it to us in private. No one deserved to be in the front row more than her. The woman of her life, say the cheesy. Not just the cheesy ones. The immortals too. pic.twitter.com/VGKjtYECDb
— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) February 9, 2023
“My father and his work owe as much to no one as to her. My father has proclaimed it many times in public, he often repeats it to us in private. No one deserved to be in the front row more than her. The woman of his life, say the cheesy. Not only the cheesy. The immortals too”, Álvaro has written.