Mario Vargas Llosa
Later personal life and interests

He has declared himself a music lover, ensuring that feels a special fondness for Gustav Mahler.

Vargas Llosa is an agnostic, "I was not a believer, nor was I an atheist either, but, rather, an agnostic".

As for hobbies, he is fond of association football and is a supporter of Universitario de Deportes. The writer himself has confessed in his book A Fish in the Water since childhood he has been a fan of the 'cream colored' team from Peru, which was first seen in the field one day in 1946 when he was only 10 years old. In February 2011, Vargas Llosa was awarded an honorary life membership of this football club, in a ceremony which took place in the Monumental Stadium of Lima.

Starting in 2015, Vargas Llosa was in a relationship with Filipina Spanish socialite and TV personality Isabel Preysler and divorced his first cousin Patricia Llosa. In December 2022, it was announced Vargas Llosa and Preysler had split up.

He was infected with COVID-19 and was hospitalized in April 2022.
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