The remains of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa were cremated on Monday, April 14 in an intimate ceremony, as desired by the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, in the funeral and crematorium of the Army of Chorrillos, where they were transferred from their home in Lima, and delivered to their three children: Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana.
Álvaro and Gonzalo carried two polls, one greater than another, while their mother and wife of the writer, Patricia Llosa, waited for them outside the facilities.
The funeral courtship left at 4:10 p.m. (21.10 GMT) of the Casa de Vargas Llosa, located in the Bohemian district of Barranco, less than 24 hours after his children announced that the writer had died at 89 years at his home.
After the brief ceremony, the relatives of the Arequipa writer headed to their vehicles and left the area.
Hours before, Álvaro, the firstborn of Vargas Llosa, had reiterated before the media, in the name of the family, that the farewell would be in the strictest privacy, and asked the press that he was at the door of his house and the citizens to respect the intimacy of goodbye to his father, who did not want posthumous ceremonies in his honor.
We have agreed to try to carry this duel in intimacy, so we are watching my father at home, instead of doing so in a public place, he said hours before the transfer of the body.
For this reason, he begged the media to respect that privacy, which implies that they were going to avoid making more statements, beyond those offered on Monday, out of respect for the media, the public and people who have sent their messages of affection and affection.
I have nothing else to say that Peru has lost one of his best men and we are infinitely dear to whom we are going to miss, said Álvaro Vargas Llosa.