La Medalla de Artes Internacionales de Vargas Llosa será otorgada por la comunidad y premios culturales serán dedicados a su legado.
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The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced on Monday that her government will posthumously award writer Mario Vargas Llosa the 2025 International Arts Medal.
This award is given in recognition of the merits of individuals and institutions of international relevance in the field of arts, whose creations have contributed to the dissemination of the region’s status as a center of cultural irradiation.
In addition, the regional president stated through her social media that this year’s cultural awards will be dedicated to his work, and within the 2025 Hispanic Heritage, the community will organize special events around his figure.
Díaz Ayuso bid farewell on her social media to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who passed away this morning at the age of 89, as «a generous and free man.» «I deeply regret the death of Nobel Vargas Llosa, a great loss for universal literature. I feel very honest because I have shared many moments with this generous and free man. We will miss him greatly,» Ayuso said to «X.»
Writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sunday at the age of 89 in the Peruvian capital, Lima, as reported by his family through a statement, without disclosing the cause of death.
«His passing will be sad for his family, friends, and readers around the world, but we hope they find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, diverse, and fruitful life and leaves behind a body of work that will endure,» said his children, Óparo, Gonzalo, and Morgana Vargas Llosa.
A Nobel Prize Tied to Madrid
Vargas Llosa arrived in Madrid in 1958 to pursue a doctoral degree at the Complutense University, earning a degree in philosophy and letters in 1971. During that training period, he began writing «The City and the Dogs» (1963), his first novel, and spent long periods in the capital.
He obtained Spanish nationality in 1993 and was elected a member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1994. Among his accolades are the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (1986), the Cervantes Prize (1994), and the Nobel Prize in Literature (2010).
The Community of Madrid has two public educational centers dedicated to the writer, both located in the north-western area of the region. The first is the Mario Vargas Llosa Primary Education Center (CEIP) in Las Rosas, Madrid, one of the 52 public schools that will incorporate secondary education in the upcoming 2025/26 academic year, thus becoming Ceipso Mario Vargas Llosa. The second is the Adult Education Center (CEPA) in Majadahonda, which was named after Mario Vargas Llosa in 2002.
