The National University of San Marcos (UNMSM)the oldest in America, said goodbye on Monday with deep regret to the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosaalumnus of the house of studies and fundamental figure of the Hispanic American letters.
Through a schedule spread on social networks, San Marcos expressed his duel for the writer’s departure, whom he described as “our most outstanding intellectual” in almost five centuries of university history. “The university community regrets this irreparable loss of its most emblematic Sanmarquino, whose memory will live imperishable in its vast literary production,” the institution said.
Mario Vargas Llosa entered UNMSM in 1953 to study literature. It was there that he discovered his passion for journalism and achieved a scholarship to continue his training in Spain. Years later, the author would remember his passage through San Marcos as one of the most important decisions of his academic life.
“I have never regretted having preferred San Marcos, one of the oldest in Latin America,” expressed the author of The city and dogs When incorporated into the French Academy in 2023.
In May of the same year, within the framework of the 472th anniversary of the University, Vargas Llosa sent a congratulation letter in which he wished San Marcos “continues to open its doors to all young Peruvians.”
The writer died on Sunday, April 14 to 89 years In his residence in Lima, his children confirmed. In respect of your will, public ceremonies will not be held.
Among his most outstanding works are Conversation in the cathedral, The goat party, THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD and Mala girl’s vunos. Its literary, political and cultural legacy continues to mark generations.
