The measure was announced by a supreme decree published in an extraordinary edition of the Bulletin of Legal Standards of the Official Gazette The Peruvian.
“During April 14, 2025, the National Pavilion is raised at half -mast in all public buildings, military facilities, bases, ships, police premises and other units of the State throughout the national territory, as well as in the diplomatic missions, consular and permanent representations of Peru abroad, ”said the decree.
The Executive’s decision stressed that Vargas Llosa “It is a universal recognition figure whose work has contributed to Peruvian literature and culture Be recognized worldwide, strengthening the image of Peru internationally. ”
The Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, lamented the death and said that “His intellectual genius and their vast work will remain as an imperishable legacy for future generations. ”
The Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique, author of the Monumental A world for Julius And friend of Vargas Llosahe told RPP that his departure is “a duel for Peru.”
“No one has represented us as much as he in the world for his work in general, its stubbornness, its cleanliness, its enormity “he added.
America
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, described Vargas Llosa as “Master of the Word, Great Chronicler of Latin America and acute interpreter of his routes and destinations. “He added that” his profuse and deep literary work remains a huge legacy for Latin America and the world. “
Mario Vargas Llosa, master of the Word, great chronicler of Latin America and acute interpreter of his routes and destinations.
His profuse and deep literary work remains a huge legacy for Latin America and the world.
Without a doubt, the legacy of a writer committed to …
– Bernardo Arévalo (@Barevalodeleon) April 14, 2025
The former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe wrote in X: “Mario Vargas Llosa, a teacher of teachers, has died. He leaves us work, admiration and example. It leaves us course for the future. ”
“Mario Vargas Llosa was a giant writer, who described Latin America with a Real tears in a delicate and interpelling fiction”He also said in X the Chilean President Gabriel Buric.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, told a press conference that “beyond political differences, You always have to recognize the greatness of a writer”
“Shy to find out about the death of the great Peruvian writer and intellectual Mario Vargas Llosa,” said the Undersecretary of State of the United States, Christopher Landau, who stressed that “his issues and interests were timeless and universal, as his Nobel Prize for Literature recognized.”
Europe
The president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, described Vargas Llosa as a “Universal Master of the Word.”
“My thanks as a reader for an immense work, for so many key books to understand our time. On behalf of the Government of Spain, I send my condolences to the family, friends and the great community of readers and readers worldwide,” he wrote in X.
The director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, thanked the author’s “exemplary” career, the “quality of your novels and the lucidity of their essays. ”
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, paid tribute to the Nobel Prize on Literature on Monday, whom he described as a “genius of letters.”
Vargas Llosa “belonged to France, for the Academy (French Academy), for its love for our literature. (…) With his work, opposed freedom of fanaticism, The irony to the dogmas, a tenacious ideal in front of the storms of the century, ”he wrote in X.
The Peruvian author became, in 2023, the first writer without original work in French to join the French Academy.
The German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, lamented on Monday the death of the Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa, in a message addressed to the author’s family, in which the head of state assured that The absence of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature will also be noticed in Germany.
“Tolerance and respect, the love of culture and the will to live in peace, as well as the determined defense of freedom as a supreme value: this attitude has distinguished Mario Vargas Llosa,” Steinmeier wrote in a message addressed to the writer’s family, which concluded with a: “We will miss him.”
Mario Vargas Llosa was from France, for the academy, for his love of our literature and the universal.
With his work, he opposed freedom of fanaticism, irony to dogmas, a iron ideal before the storms of the century.
Tribute to a genius of the letters that a homeland had here. pic.twitter.com/fdqweahu7
– Emmanuel Macron (@emmanuelmacron) April 14, 2025
Gabo Foundation
The Gabo Foundation, created by the writer Gabriel García Márquez, lamented in X “the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, teacher of the Spanish narrative and key figure of Latin American literature. We accompany his family, friends and readers in the duel.”
The Peruvian author maintained a close friendship with the Colombian writer, who was also part of the Latin American boom.
“But their relationships ended abruptly with a punch of the Peruvian, surrounded by mystery. That the biographers take care of that issue,” said Vargas Llosa.
The Gabo Foundation laments the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, a master of the Spanish narrative and key figure of Latin American literature. We accompany your family, friends and readers in the duel. pic.twitter.com/ieozt2ihju
– Gabo Foundation (@fundaciongabo) April 14, 2025
Alfaguara Editorial
Pilar Reyes, editorial director Literary Division Penguin Random House and Editorial Director of Alfaguara, also reacted to the author’s death.
“With infinite sadness we receive the news of the death of Mario Vargas Llosa. His work and his thinking will continue to illuminate. To his family, my deepest condolences. Mario, all the gratitude for a life that helped us see further,” he wrote in X.
