NOVA University Lisbon expresses its deepest regret at the death of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, to whom it had the honour of conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in 2014.
A leading novelist on the Ibero-American and global literary scene, Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, has left an indelible mark on contemporary literature and thought.
The author of a vast and influential oeuvre that transcends genres and borders – as a writer, but also as a politician, journalist, essayist and university professor – Vargas Llosa was one of the most important writers of his generation, offering us a critical, informed and always provocative vision of reality.
NOVA remembers with admiration his time at our university and the intellectual legacy he leaves for future generations.