Ministry of Culture declares four works by Mario Vargas Llosa Cultural Heritage of the Nation

Mario Vargas Llosa has more than one reason to celebrate this August 15. To begin with, a new anniversary of his native Arequipa is celebrated, as if that were not enough, the Ministry of Culture has just declared four of his works Cultural Heritage of the Nation: “The bosses”, “The city and the dogs”, ” The Green House” and “The puppies”.

This decision marks a historic milestone, since it is the first declaration of the works of an author in life, such as the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa.

“That the State grants this condition, this declaration, means special protection and recognition of the work, and in this specific case, of the first editions of the works of Mario Vargas Llosa,” declared the Minister of Culture, Leslie Urteaga.

“Each one of them has a characteristic, because they are emblematic works of our Nobel Prize and will be protected with greater care,” added.

Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer and essayist, representative and one of the initiators of the Latin American Boom of literature, so his works present importance, value and meaning for our cultural historical process.

Thanks to his quality as a writer, Mario Vargas Llosa has received various distinctions such as the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1962, the first edition of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1967, the Cervantes Prize in 1994, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. In January 2023 He was incorporated into the French Academy, which makes him the only Spanish-speaking writer to receive this recognition.

The bibliographic units that include the first four published titles of Vargas Llosa’s narrative work are kept in the National Library of Peru, and represent a sample of his literary creation, both in the short story and in the novel.