Julia Urquidi Illanes

Julia Urquidi Illanes was the first major love of renowned Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, whom he married in 1955 after a scandalous relationship that began when she was 29 and recently divorced, and he was just 19. Their tumultuous marriage lasted nine years and ended in 1964 when Vargas Llosa left her for his cousin Patricia Llosa, a situation that further strained his already difficult relationship with his family.