the peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will have dinner this Friday with him French President Emmanuel Macronhe king emeritus Juan Carlos I and the Spanish author Javier Cercasas confirmed this Thursday by the Nobel family after being received at the French Academy.
“Thank you for what you have done for Spain. No one with even the slightest knowledge of the role that Spain has played in becoming a European liberal democracy can fail to recognize it.. Macron, who has invited them both to dinner tomorrow along with Javier Cercas, also recognizes it,” he said on Twitter. Alvaro Vargas Llosaone of the sons of the author of “The party of the goat”.
The firstborn of Mario Vargas Llosa He also shared some images of the moments that his father and the emeritus king lived during the day.
Mario Vargas Llosa was received this Thursday as new member of the French Academyan institution founded in 1635 by the Cardinal Richelieu to watch over the language of Molière, in a solemn ceremony in Paris.
At the personal invitation of the Nobel Prize winner, Juan Carlos I, who lives in Abu Dhabiattended that act and was seated in the front row next to the Infanta Cristina.
“I believe that there should be a little more understanding and gratitude towards a king on whom the freedom we enjoy today depends to a large extent. in Spain,” said Vargas Llosa in statements to the press at the conclusion of the ceremony.
Since Juan Carlos I He left Spain in 2020 to reside in the United Arab Emirates, after several financial and personal scandals, each trip of the former monarch arouses suspicion in his country.
The emeritus king, 85, has a pending in London lawsuit filed by her ex-loverthe German-Danish businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (57 years).
The British court granted him partial legal immunity in the case, until his abdication in 2014.
Juan Carlos I briefly returned to Spain in May 2022, to participate in a regatta in Galicia. That visit sparked political controversy.
When asked if he would travel to Spain soon, the monarch replied to the press that “surely”, without adding anything else.
In the opinion of vargas llosawho has Peruvian and Spanish nationalities, the former monarch “returned freedom to Spain” after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
“I am very happy with what has happened. I believe that the presence of the King and the Infanta have enriched the ceremonyhe added.
Juan Carlos I appointed Marquis of vargas llosa to the writer in 2011.
His daughter, the Infanta Cristina, also starred in a notorious financial scandal in the mid-2010s, along with her then-husband Iñaki Urdangarin.
Both were charged with tax fraud. Urdangarín was convicted and went to jail, while Cristina de Borbón was acquitted, although she had to pay a fine.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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