Family, friends and colleagues mourn the death of Chilean writer Jorge Edwards, who died at the age of 91 in Madrid this Friday. Among them the author Mario Vargas Llosa He wanted to pay special homage to the late author, and he did so by remembering one of his novels, ‘Persona non grata’. In statements accessible to the Prensa Ibérica group, Vargas Llosa said that Edwards “became very famous for his book ‘Persona non grata’, published in the 1970s on Cuba, with Fidel Castro and an opposition group with which he already had a very close relationship”. According to Vargas Llosa, the book was “impressed” because it was the first book to “deeply and harshly criticize the Cuban dictatorship.”
“Jorge admitted to his fears that they had taken him for a walk unplanned and that he always felt like they could lose him,” causing him to disappear. The book had a tremendous impact in Latin America, but “it also contributed a lot to the dissemination of his novels,” recalls Vargas Llosa.
Vargas Llosa also stands out How Edwards went out of his way to describe his own personal experiences novels. “For example, he recently admitted that a priest who went to a Jesuit school raped him,” notes Vargas Llosa, and he puts it very sharply, “trying to wake him up how that priest was constantly going to his house”, no matter what this priest’s behavior was, it was about the religious order. makes it clear that he has a good impression. “it created a trauma”.
Vargas Llosa insists that the author’s importance in his time was very important and that he was one of the architects who contributed the most to the formation of the high levels that Latin American literature reached in those years.
The funeral chapel of 1999 Cervantes Prize winner Jorge Edwards will be installed tomorrow at the La Paz Funeral Home in the town of Alcobendas.
The author and journalist was a Language scholar in Chile and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He combined literature with regular collaborations in Chilean and international newspapers and lectures and courses at American universities.
Chile, Spain, and France, writing, politics, disharmony and marginality, and love as the engine of human action were recurring themes and places in Edwards’ work. Received the Chilean National Prize for Literature (1994) or the prestigious Cervantes Prize (1999) in Spain.
Apart from these awards, he won the Silver Pen (2008) at the Bilbao Book Fair, the Planeta-Casamérica Ibero-American Narrative Award (2008) for his novel “La casa de Dostoievsky”, and the International Award for Valladolid Cristóbal. Recognized by the Gabarrón de las Letras Foundation (2009) or the González Ruano Journalism Award (2011) and the Grand Cross of the Order X of Alfonso the Wise in 2016.
Source: Informacion
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