Mario Vargas Llosa is already in Paris to enter the French Academy

“With my family Parison the eve of great events”The essayist Álvaro Vargas, the first child of both, shared Llosa on his Twitter account.

Along with the message, he posted a photo where the three of them can be seen sitting and resting.

Also in the morning, their daughter, photographer Morgana Vargas Llosa, gave details of the trip.

“We’re going to Paris. Despite all the hard things that have happened, there are reasons to celebrate life,” he said on Twitter.

Vargas Llosa, 86, on Thursday First Spanish writer to enter the French AcademyA century-old institution tasked with controlling Molière’s language.

The public reception of the author of “La fiesta del Chivo” will take place in the form of a solemn ceremony in front of a small audience in the Amphitheater of the French Institute. will find honorary king Spanish Juan Carlos I (he will arrive on a special trip this Wednesday) and his daughter Infanta ChristinaInvited by Vargas Llosa himself.

His election as a new member of the Academy took place in November 2021, and the 2010 Nobel Prize winner has drawn criticism from French intellectual groups both for never writing in French and for his political positions, which some find close. extreme right.

Also your login age (86) Contrary to the norms of the institution established in 1635 Cardinal Richelieu set the ceiling at 75 years to choose one of the 40 seats of the “immortals”, which have been known by academics with the slogan “À l’immortalité” (An immortality) since 2010. The seal of the academy.

The 2010 Nobel Prize winner will take the 18th seat left vacant by philosopher Michel Serres in 2019.