Over 2,000 people met the well-known writer Mario Vargas Llosa (in picture) during an event held on Tuesday (May 21) at the Bases-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The Peruvian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, had a discussion with the Romanian writer Gabriel Liiceanu on the theme “Could we live without escaping into fiction?”. An autograph session was organized at the end of the event.

Mario Vargas Llosa arrived in Cluj-Napoca on Sunday (May 19). On May 20, the Babes-Bolyai University organized a ceremony during which the Peruvian writer was awarded the Doctor Honorius Causa title.

Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist born in 1936. He is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and one of the leading writers of his generation. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat", according to nobelprize.org.

The Peruvian writer previously came to Romania in 1995 and in 2005.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com