MADRID: Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has been hospitalized after contracting Covid-19, but his condition was "developing favorably," his son said on Friday.

"A few days ago, for complications caused by [the] coronavirus, he was admitted to a clinic in Madrid," Alvaro Vargas Llosa wrote on Twitter. But "thanks to treatment, his condition is developing favorably."

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