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Isabel Preysler Publishes Mario Vargas Llosa Love Letters in New Memoir

She says the correspondence shows the Nobel laureate was happy during their eight-year relationship.

Overview

  • Preysler launched Mi verdadera historia at a Madrid press event on Oct. 22, appearing with her daughter Tamara Falcó before a large media contingent.
  • The book reproduces eight letters Vargas Llosa sent between 2015 and 2022 and includes Preysler’s own Dec. 12, 2022 letter ending the relationship.
  • Preysler frames the memoir as a corrective to what she calls false narratives, asserting she published the letters to counter claims from his entourage about his supposed unhappiness.
  • She details her reasons for the breakup, citing scenes of jealousy and what she describes as poor manners, and says she told him to have someone collect his belongings.
  • Preysler says she began writing before Vargas Llosa’s death and finished the book as he was dying, and the memoir also revisits earlier relationships and personal revelations.