Madrid, (EFE) .- The winner of the Cervantes 2024 Award, the Spanish Álvaro Pombo, lamented the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, whom he knew personally in the sessions of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and which he remembers as a “model of elegance and gentlemen”, in addition to being a “universal humanist”.
Vargas Llosa won the Cervantes Award in 1994, 30 years before Álvaro Pombo, and entered as an academic at the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), to which the Spanish writer also belongs.
Pombo (Santander, 1939) Remember that he met Vargas Llosa in the SAR sessions: “It was a model of elegance and gentlemen. It was also a model of tolerance in a world in which the writers sometimes return, without proposing it to us, dictators’.
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He highlights his narratives but especially his essay works, for his vision “romantic and pragmatic at the same time, of his time.”
“He was a writer writer and was also a writer of thousands of readers who will regret today, like me, his unexpected disappearance,” Álvaro Pombo, who says he will remember that he will remember Vargas Llosa “as a genius, brilliant, of literature but also of spiritual diplomacy.
“He was a universal humanist,” he added, “a man committed from head to toe, with the policy of his time and his country, which cost him a thousand worries. And also committed to the narrative grace of his own country.”
The narrative works of Vargas Llosa “Rezuman Peruanism and love for her Peruvian homeland ‘, Pombo reflected, which she will receive from King Felipe VI the Cervantes Award, the most important award of the letters in Spanish, on April 24.
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