Mario Vargas Llosa He shared an anecdote during an interview about his beginnings in the literature at the Leoncio Prado Military College. As he said, his father enrolled him in that institution to move him away from his vocation for the letters, because he did not want his daughter to be a writer.
“My father put me in Leoncio Prado because he was horrified with my literary vocation he didn’t want to have a son who was a writer at all”, Said the Nobel Prize for Literature.
However, the Peruvian writer said that in that space he found his love for literature. “Interestingly, it was there that I became, in a way, a writer: in the Prado Leoncio”
In that sense, Vargas Llosa remembered with humor when his fellow cadets, asked him to write letters to his girlfriends.
“They hired me to answer them and also handed me their cards, the girls’ letters”He said.
Leoncio Prado Military College pays tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa after his death
The Leoncio Prado Military College paid a tribute to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, after 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 sign of respect for the author of the city and the dogs, a novel 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 patio of honor, 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, the students also explored the book Vargas Llosa, his other great passion, by 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.
