Overview

• The Ministry of Culture formalized the status via Viceministerial Resolution No. 000255-2025-VMPCIC/MC, published in the official gazette El Peruano.
• National Library specialists determined the marginalia possess unique, exceptional value as a direct record of Mario Vargas Llosa’s analytical process.
• The annotations date to 1967 and fed into his doctoral research at the Complutense University, later published in 1971 as “García Márquez: historia de un deicidio.”
• The volume is held by the Biblioteca Regional Mario Vargas Llosa in Arequipa as part of a restricted collection that remained closed during the author’s lifetime.
• A public opening is scheduled for October 14 at the regional library during the X International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE 2025).