Julia Urquidi Illanes (30 May 1926 – 10 March 2010) was a Bolivian writer.

Life

Urquidi was born in

Cochabamba Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630 ...

. She was famous as the first wife of Peruvian writer

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

(1955-1964) and also the namesake of one of his most famous novels, ''

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ''Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'' ( es, La tía Julia y el escribidor) is the seventh novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa. It was published by Seix Barral, S.A., Spain, in 1977. Plot Set in Peru during the 1950s, it is the ...

''. In 1983 she published her memories titled ''Lo que Varguitas no dijo'' ( en, What Varguitas did not say).''La Tía Julia sin el Escribidor''
'' El País'', 03.06.1990 She died in

Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; "Holy Cross of the Mountain Range"), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz department. Situated on the Pirai River in the eastern Tropical Lowlands of Bolivia ...

, aged 83.

References

1926 births 2010 deaths People from Cochabamba Bolivian women writers Vargas Llosa family {{Bolivia-writer-stub