A student of a local prestigious school, Bayly never achieved good grades. Spending too much time in soccer games at school, his low academic performance forced his mother to send him to 'La Prensa' newspaper in order to get more responsibility with a part-time job. Every afternoon after school classes he went to the office until late at night. ...
Silvia Nuñez del Arco (m. 2011), Sandra Masías (m. 1993–1997)
Children
Paola Bayly, Camila Bayly, Zoe Bayly
Parents
Doris Mary Letts, James Bayly Llona
Star Sign
Pisces
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"What can I say about my books? I started writing in 1990, when I was 25, in a cool winter in Madrid and then I couldn't stop it. It's, as the same time, a sentence and a gift, and I don't have doubts that is my most serious vocation and I think is everlasting. I'd love to write, just do that, but novels have low incomes and I don't want my daughters go to a dingy school".
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Fact
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Has one daughter with his wife Silvia: Zoe.
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His sixth book is published: 'Aquí no hay poesia' (Here is no poetry) [December 2001]
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Hosting a new Late Show 'La noche es virgen' (the title comes from his third novel: Night is just beginning). [September 2001]
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Is a very good friend of Alvaro Vargas Llosa (son of peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa), a journalist who started a blank-vote campaign during the Presidential Elections in Perú between April and May 2001. Jaime was criticized for his supporting activities in that campaign.
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Has 2 daughters with his wife Sandra: Camila and Paola
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Is the third of ten children.
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Nephew of peruvian former congressman Ricardo Letts.