Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun asserts that the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, who died at the age of 89 in Lima, 'will be missed'
Tributes to the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, have already begun to be announced following his death in Lima, Peru, at the age of 89. Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun and the curators of the Spanish delegation attending the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBO) from April 25th to May 11th in the Colombian capital announced this Monday that the Spanish pavilion will host a tribute to the Peruvian writer, although they have not yet specified how it will be carried out. The recognition will have double significance.
On the one hand, Spain will attend the literary event as the guest of honor with an army of nearly 150 writers, having last been there 33 years ago (in 1992). On the other, due to the writer's connection to Spain and his love for the work of Cervantes. "Don Quixote symbolizes, better than any other book, the richness of our language," the Peruvian wrote in one of his last columns in this newspaper.
