Vargas Llosa revealed he was sexually abused when he was 12 – Notes

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has revealed that he was sexually abused by a clergyman from La Salle school in the city of Lima, where the Nobel Prize winner studied for several years.

The author made these facts known during a virtual interview with Epicentro TV at the Virtual Book Fair in Cajamarca (Peru), where he said the situation occurred when he was 12 years old, at a when the school was empty, and was performed by Brother Léoncio.

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“He took me to the fifth floor, where the students of the school could not enter because that was where the brothers had their rooms. This brother, who was very nervous, blushed (he was very old .. .), suddenly took him out of his bedroom Mexican magazines called “Véa” which were about nudes, dancers. It left me completely perplexed, “the writer said in the video.

“While I was looking at them, I realized that this brother was touching his fly, as if he wanted to masturbate. It was a scandal for me, I started to cry and to cry. Then Brother Leoncio had very scared, he opened the door, let me out and said: ” Calm down ” “, he said in the interview, which took place last Monday.

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The events were recounted in his book “A fish in the water”, from which a brief court case was initiated, according to the ABC newspaper.

“I say this because, oddly enough, from then on, I who had been a very religious child and who submitted to Communion every first Friday, I lost interest in religion,” said the Nobel Prize for Literature.