Although Isabel Preysler is the last love we’ve ever known Mario Vargas Llosa, the truth is that the Nobel Prize winner has a very extensive love history that goes far beyond his eight-year relationship with Tamara Falcó’s mother. That is why we are going to review the two great women in the life of the writerwhich curiously are her aunt and her cousin.
His aunt, Julia Urdiqui
Julia Urdiqui with Mario Vargas Llosa, aunt and nephew – ‘El País’
It was in the 1950s when a very young Vargas Llosa he falls madly in love with “his aunt”, Julia Urdiqui. At that time, Mario was 19 years old and his aunt Olga’s sister was 30 years old. The family always opposed this relationship since she was divorced, plus she had few economic possibilities, not to mention the obvious age difference. Despite this, they married in 1955.
Mario Vargas Llosa reflected his love story with Urdiqui in ‘Aunt Julia and the writer’, an autobiographical work in which he narrates this courtship. A biography that Julia responded to with her own post, ‘What Varguitas did not tell’. In it, the writer’s aunt revealed the many times he was unfaithful to her.
His cousin, Patricia Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa with his cousin, Patricia Llosa – GTRES
After nine years of relationship, Mario and Julia put an end to their love story. It is then that Urdiqui’s nieces and, therefore, Vargas Llosa’s cousins arrive in Paris. One of them was actually Patricia Llosa UrdiquYo. The crush between the writer and his cousin made Preysler’s ex-boyfriend request a divorce from his aunt in 1964.
Just one year later, In 1965, Mario and Patricia said yes.. A love story that would become the longest running of the Nobel. Along with his cousin Patricia, Vargas Llosa has his three children: Álvaro (1966), Gonzalo (1967) and Morgana (1974). Both maintain a happy marriage -always involved in rumors of infidelity- until in 2014 they sign the divorce papers. a relationship that lasts 50 years and whose end originated the beginning of the writer’s courtship with Isabel Preysler, until today, who is once again single and whole.
With my parents in Paris, on the eve of big events. pic.twitter.com/yNkeVnV1DN
— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) February 7, 2023
Photos | GTRES / ‘The Country’