"I have never stopped writing articles even in the most difficult situations," said Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, commenting on his latest publication in the press, a review entitled "Cervantès", on the book by Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the Royal Spanish Academy.
"I worked a lot on this article (...) I finally wrote it at the clinic," he said.
Vargas Llosa explained that his hospitalization "was an experience of only 24 hours, but very painful".
Vargas Llosa has been in Buenos Aires since Thursday.
On Friday he launched a short story competition at the Book Fair and on Sunday he presented his latest book "La mirada quieta", about the Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós.
To write this last book, Vargas Llosa confided having for 18 months, in the midst of a pandemic, read all the work of Pérez Galdós.
"He was probably the first professional writer to appear in Spain and Latin America. He promised to write a novel every three months and it didn't always go well for him," Vargas Llosa said.
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