If something has defined the Vargas Llosa family, it has been their unity as a family, despite the circumstances. So much so, that only death has been able to definitively separate Mario Vargas Llosa and Patricia Llosa. After the death of the writer at 89 years old seven months ago, his former wife has celebrated her first birthday without him. At least, if we exclude the time they were not married and the years the Nobel Prize winner spent with Isabel Preysler.
"Today we celebrate, with dear relatives and friends, Patricia's 80 years, my mother, the solar system around which so many of us orbit incessantly, owing to the gravitational force of her legendary qualities," wrote Álvaro Vargas Llosa on his X account alongside a photograph with his mother.
La OtraCrónica has learned that Patricia Llosa celebrated her eightieth birthday with her three children in a private gathering that took place in the Dominican Republic. However, neither Morgana nor Gonzalo have shared any posts about it, unlike their older brother.
The journalist could not stay in the country for much longer, as hours later he had to fly to Panama to meet with the president of the republic for an event organized by the International Foundation for Freedom (FIL). An organization defending "democracy, freedom, and prosperity" created by his father in 2002 and presided over by him until his passing, at which point the presidency fell to Álvaro.
These days, Álvaro Vargas Llosa has also made headlines after it was made public that he has claimed the title of Marquess of Vargas Llosa, a hereditary noble title that King Juan Carlos bestowed upon Mario Vargas Llosa in 2011, a year after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In a conversation with this supplement yesterday, November 24, the writer's eldest son revealed the reasons why he has requested the succession of the marquisate. "My father left in his testamentary wishes that he would like me to claim the title," disclosed the essayist and lecturer.