63 minutes. That is how long the speech of the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner lasted this Thursday when he entered the French Academy. Mario Vargas Llosa He has been accompanied by his grandchildren, his children and his ex-wife, Patricia Llosa, in one of the most important days of his literary career. Precisely the latter has starred in one of the funniest anecdotes of this act.
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Seeing is believing. The cameras have captured Patricia asleep while Mario read her very long speech. During the reading, the author of The party of the goat He has not made any reference to it. However, the two have approached positions after the breakup of the intellectual and Isabella Preyslerwhich paradoxically was announced by the queen of hearts on December 28, All Saints Innocents Day.
After Mario and Patricia’s meeting months ago in Peru and their last dates in Madrid, the author’s ex could not miss this trip to the Parisian capital. The Vargas Llosa family smiles. His son Álvaro, in recent days, has shared several images of the family, especially emphasizing how close his parents are again. This Wednesday they had a cocktail party prior to the event and this Thursday they once again toast the achievement of the writer, who has become the first Latino author to be admitted to the prestigious French Academy.
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King Juan Carlos, who flew in from Abu Dhabi, was also present at the event. He has been accompanied by the infanta christina. Both have sat next to the writer’s children. His presence in Paris had raised a very high expectation. For the emeritus monarch, it was his first social and public event since his departure to the Emirates in the summer of 2020.