He Leoncio Prado Military College paid a tribute to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosaafter the announcement of his death last Sunday. At 7 in the morning on Monday, the national pavilion was carried out at half -mast as a sample of grieving at the main door of the enclosure, in honor of one of its most emblematic alumni.
The ceremony was not the only sample of respect for the author of The city and dogsnovel inspired by its years as a cadet in that institution. In March of this year, for their 89th birthday, the students of the Military College carried out a special training in the Honor Patio, aligning to form the initials “MVLL”a tribute captured from the air by a drone. This activity was organized by Editorial Planeta and brought together 120 students.
During that previous tribute, students also explored the book Vargas Llosa, his other great passionby Pedro Cateriano, who analyzes the political impact of the Peruvian Nobel, bringing his literary and citizen legacy to the new generations.
Vargas Llosa always remembered with special emphasis his passage through Leoncio Prado. Although he was registered there by his father in the hope of moving him away from literature, he paradoxically was in that military environment where he reaffirmed his vocation as a writer. With humor, he told that his companions asked him to write letters for his girlfriends, an experience that, according to him, cemented his narrative ability.
This tribute from the school that inspired his most emblematic work adds to the multiple expressions of recognition that have been emerging nationally and internationally by the departure of the most influential Peruvian writer of the last century.
