The visit of the hero
Everybody was chasing Vargas Llosa but he seemed to chase another remarkable Piura-native man. By Roberto Saavedra (special to FACTORTIERRA). CHULUCANAS, Peru – Imagine that somebody knocks on your door in a shiny morning, you open it and… what a surprise! Mister Fernando Barranzuela? It’s not another guy. It’s about Mario Vargas Llosa , the reknown Peruvian writer, 2010 Nobel Award of Literature. Although the poet Fernando Barranzuela used to had visits of many people, this one marked a before and an after. The missing land Piura is not a strange land for the novelist, playright, essayist, journalist, and even actor. He spent his childhood and teenage there. He studied at San Miguel School, wrote and produced his first theater play, knew that his father –whom he belief to be died—lived, learned to make love. Vargas Llosa arrived on Monday, March 5 th , 2012, and had two homages, one at the campus of Piura National University and another else at Merino Squ...