Mario Vargas Llosa overcomes covid and leaves the hospital

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The

Spanish-Peruvian

has overcome

and will leave the hospital where he was admitted last week due to complications from the disease, to "

at home, his children announced today on Twitter.

Vargas Llosa "beat Covid. Now, home to continue with the recovery," Álvaro and

wrote on their Twitter accounts , along with a photo in which they hugged their

-old father , smiling, and his another brother, Gonzalo.

"Thanks to the science that saves lives and the medical staff

for their dedication. We will always be very grateful to them. They have been fighting this pandemic for years. All our admiration for you," added the

in the message on the social network.

The children of the

of Latin American literature announced last Friday that their father was admitted to a Madrid clinic for

"He and his family appreciate the signs of affection we are receiving," said the message signed by

at the time , the three children he had with his ex-wife Patricia Llosa.

The author of '

, 'Conversation in the Cathedral' and '

had to cancel his agenda this week, in which he had planned to participate in the presentation in Madrid of

de Santiago Munoz Machado.

Before falling ill,

in the Spanish capital, where he lives, his

an essay on the Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós.

The writer plans to take this work to the

(April 28-May 16).

Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010

, Vargas Llosa began his long literary career in 1959, in which he has written

Vargas Llosa

, current partner of Isabel Preysler, ex-wife of singer Julio Iglesias,

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