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Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa joins Académie Française without ever writing in French

Reception at the French Academy in Paris for Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature.
Reception at the French Academy in Paris for Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature. -  Copyright  AFP
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Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa joins Académie Française of Literature without ever writing in French

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Peruvian-Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa continues to make history in the world of literature. Llosa has become the first person to join the Académie Française without ever having written in French.

In a ceremony with 'notable guests', Vargas Llosa praised the language of Molière and highlighted the paradox that it was France that helped him to feel like a Latin American writer.

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