Macron dinner for Vargas Llosa and controversial Spanish former king
The 86-year-old novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who also has Spanish citizenship, controversially invited the former monarch to his inauguration ceremony into the Académie Française on Thursday in Paris.
FrenchFrench president Emmanuel Macron had dinner on Friday with Spain's exiled former king Juan Carlos I and Peruvian Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The literature laureate joined the élite French Academy on 9 February, reports RFI.
The 86-year-old novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who also has Spanish citizenship, controversially invited the former monarch to his inauguration ceremony into the Académie Française on Thursday in Paris.
Vargas Llosa, considered to be one of the most influential Latin American writers, is the first author to become a member of the Académie Française despite never to have written a book in French.
Juan Carlos - who turned up for the event - first became king in 1975, overseeing Spain's transition to democracy after the death of dictator Franco.
