Nobel Literature laureate, Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, was honored by Peru's San Marcos University with its Medal of Honor. Photo: ANDINA/ Vidal Tarqui
09:33 | Lima, Mar. 31 (ANDINA).
Peru’s National University of San Marcos honored Nobel Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa with its Medal of Honor in the grade of Great Cross in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Peruvian and world culture.
“My intellectual education truly began here, in the courtyard of Arts and in the courtyard of Law, where I had extraordinary professors,” stated Vargas during the ceremony held at the public’s university cultural center.
The Peruvian writer studied under renowned professors such as Raul Porras Barrenechea, Luis Alberto Sanchez and Augusto Tamayo Vargas, for whom he worked as an assistant.
The author of The city and the dogs went on to add that San Marcos has always accompanied him as a citizen and writer, and that such educational center is one of the best things that has happened to Peru.
“It’s a very old university, the oldest in the Americas. There’s a friendly dispute with the university of Santo Domingo, but there are reasons to believe that San Marcos is the oldest.”
In 1953, Vargas Llosa enrolled in San Marcos to study literature and law. He attended the university's old campus in front of the Parque Universitario.
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Publicado: 31/3/2011