Vargas Llosa's ex-wife Julia dies in Bolivia

AFP

Lhttp://en.hdhod.com/admin/forum_chambre/A PAZ- The ex-wife of renowned Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia Urquidi, has died in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz from respiratory complications, the family said Thursday. She was 84.
Urquidi, who inspired one of Vargas Llosa's best-loved novels, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," was born in Cochabamba in 1926.

Mario Vargas Llosa (left) with Chilean presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera

The pair married in the late 1950s despite protests by their families because Urquidi was more than 10 years older and was Vargas Llosa's aunt. They divorced after nearly 10 years of marriage.
Dissatisfied with Vargas Llosa's autobiographical recounting of their relationship, Urquidi penned her own version, "What Varguitas did not say." But her novel failed to attract the same attention as her ex-husband's book.
According to the book, their separation was sudden. The prolific essayist and playwright confessed to Urquidi that he was in love with her niece, Patricia, to whom he remains married to this day.
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