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Three Disturbing Lessons From a Recently Deceased Nobel Laureate That Will Change Your Outlook on Life
#1. Let death catch you working.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize in Literature winner, died on April 13, 2025, at his home in Lima, Peru, at the age of 89, surrounded by his loved ones.
I have read almost all of his work because of his smile.
He laughed in every interview despite his life’s harshness, which fascinated me.
His mother and maternal grandparents made him believe that his father had died (it was a lie :-)
When Mario was 10 years old, his father reappeared.
His father did not understand Mario’s love for poetry, a subject he considered “not very masculine.”
To keep Mario away from literature, he enrolled Mario in a Military Academy, a tough boarding school that Mario himself described as “Discovering the hell.”
But he turned all that pain into a brilliant novel, “The City and the Dogs.”
He also spent his time at boarding school writing the love letters that his classmates sent to their girlfriends to woo them in exchange for money :-)
