In an intimate interview, Álvaro Vargas Llosa offered moving details about the death of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosaoccurred on April 13, 2025. In the midst of pain for the loss of his father, the essayist denied rumors around the writer’s alleged disease and clearly explained the true cause of his death.
Avoiding mentioning a Jaime Baylyit was quite clear when asking to ignore the rumors that have been weaving in everything to his father’s disease. “I advise not to give ears to anyone who has not had access to my father or my family”, Said the essayist, demonstrating his concern about the erroneous versions that could distort his father’s memory.
“My father did not die of leukemiadisease in which the medulla produces an excessive amount of blast. It was not his case. What he had was very low defenses that made him prone to infections of different types, ”Álvaro revealed to El Comercio, clearing any questions about the previous diagnosis that had been mentioned in some media.
Remember that it was Jaime Bayly One of the figures that went to the front to reveal the alleged cause of death of his father, sliding that the Nobel would have had a type of “hematological cancer.”
According to Álvaro, Mario Vargas Llosa suffered progressive deterioration in his health, which culminated with fatal pneumonia. He also detailed the complications that his father suffered in the last days of his life, noting that, in addition to the low defenses, the Nobel also suffered heart failure in the final stage of his illness.
The firstborn of the Nobel indicated that his family was aware of that sooner or later some infection would come that would exceed his resistance. Finally, The last pneumonia hated him and it was definitiveÁlvaro explained, underlining that his father’s health was deteriorating quickly and irreversibly.
About the last days of the writer, Álvaro Vargas Llosa He shared intimate and family details, where everyone converged in Lima to be by his side. The essayist reported in the interview that they always walked by car and in a wheelchair. In addition to reading poems and fragments of novels, they also made him listen to concerts of classical music and told him fragments of his works.
The writer remarked that the family remained next to his father throughout the process, providing emotional and physical support, while trying to make their last moments as comfortable as possible.
He also recalled that, in those days, fragments of his father’s works were read and pieces of classical music were heard, in particular Sonatas of Beethoven and compositions of Mahler. “I would have preferred to leave before you,” Álvaro confessed that he told his father at a time of extreme closeness. The final moments of Mario Vargas Llosa were surrounded by affection, and his family tried to give him tranquility and love to the last breath.
Despite physical suffering, the writer never lost his sense of humor and his ability to smile, his son said. Despite the circumstances, Mario Vargas Llosa He continued with the personality that characterized him.
“I was aware of the deterioration in the last stage And from time to time he made resigned comments, with a certain black humor, ”Álvaro said, making it clear that his father never ceased to be a vital person, even in his last days.
In another part of the interview, Álvaro Vargas Llosa He pointed out that his father always made it clear that he wanted to be cremated, and they only fulfilled their last will.
