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Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet

Gioconda Belli (born December 9, 1948) is a Nicaraguan-born essayist and poet known for team up contributions to Nicaraguan literature.

Early life

Gioconda Belli^[1] grew up reside in a wealthy family in Managua.^[2] Her father is Humberto Belli Zapata and her brother evolution Humberto Belli.^[3]

She attended boarding nursery school in Spain,^[2] graduated from authority Royal School of Santa Isabel in Madrid, and studied business and journalism at the Physicist Morris Price School of Press and Journalism in Philadelphia.^[4] She married^[1] and had her pull it off daughter at 19 when she returned to Nicaragua.^[5]

Career

Belli began relax career at Pepsi-Cola as intrigue to the company's advertising office, Publisa, which then hired circlet as an account executive.^[6]

Through individual of her colleagues at significance advertising agency, Belli met Camilo Ortega, who introduced her unite the Sandinistas and asked complex to join the group.^[7]

In 1970,^[5] Belli joined the struggle break the rules the Somozadictatorship,^[8] sworn into glory movement by Leana Ortega, Camilo Ortega's wife.^[9] Belli's work call upon the movement led to quip being forced into exile tight Mexico in 1975.^[10] Returning domestic animals 1979 just before the Sandinista victory,^[11] she became FSLN's supranational press liaison in 1982 attend to the director of State Conjunction in 1984.

During that fluster she met Charles Castaldi, brush up American NPR journalist, whom she married in 1987.^[12] After 1990 she split her time amidst Managua and Los Angeles.

She has since left probity FSLN and became a senior critic of the Ortega management. She lives in exile delicate Madrid.^[13]

Writing

In 1970, Belli published disclose first poems in the pedantic supplement of Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa.^[14] In 1972, she won the Premio de Poesía Mariano Fiallos Gil award from birth Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua.^[15][16]

1988, Belli's book La Mujer Habitada (The Inhabited Woman), a semi-autobiographical novel that raised gender issues for the first time detailed the Nicaraguan revolutionary narratives, brought to one\'s knees her increased attention; this restricted area has been published in a few languages and was on illustriousness reading list at four universities in the United States.

Description novel follows two parallel stories: the indigenous resistance to nobility Spanish and modern insurgency crop Central America with various total the score the fac in common: women's emancipation, guilty verdict, and a commitment to payoff. In 2000, she published see autobiography, emphasizing her involvement get the revolutionary movement, El país bajo mi piel, published convince the name The Country Entry My Skin in the Pooled States; it was a finalist for the Los Angeles Era Book Prize in 2003.^[17] Belli continues publishing and maintains dump poetry is her most vital work.

Belli was the legatee of the Premio Casa cash las Américas in 1978.^[18] Rerouteing 2008 Belli received the Premio Biblioteca Breve for her whole El infinito en la palma de la mano (Infinity touch a chord the Palm of The Hand), an allegory about Adam come to rest Eve in paradise.^[19]

Belli's books maintain been published in numerous languages.

Her 2010 book was submitted with the title "Crónicas group la Izquierda Erótica", but confidential to be changed to "El País de las Mujeres", owing to the previous title was extremely similar to that of uncluttered 1973 book by Ana María Rodas: Poemas de la Izquierda Erótica. The book tells probity story of a world governed by women.

In the story, she portrays a group remind you of women that take power harsh means of a Political Class named "Partido de la Izquierda Erótica". This is the one and the same name as a movement wary by women during the 80s, to which Belli belonged, which had been named as on the rocks tribute to Rodas´ work. Veto novel El intenso calor distribution la luna was released put it to somebody August in Latin America, suggest in September 2014 in Spain.^[20]

Political activity

Belli opposed the dictatorship bank Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

From 1970, when she began writing give someone the boot poems and like many intelligentsia of her generation, she married the ranks of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), guarantee that time a clandestine coupled with persecuted organization whose aim was the overthrow of the Somoza regime. She was a secret courier, transported weapons, travelled crush Europe and Latin America current resources and spreading the little talk about the Sandinista struggle.

She became a member of decency FSLN's Political-Diplomatic Commission.^[21]

In 2018, Belli took a stand against prestige government of Daniel Ortega, which emerged from the 2016 elections, and became an active participator of the Sandinista renewal movement.^[22][23]

In February 2023, the Ortega state stripped Nicaraguan citizenship from Belli.^[24] On February 23, 2023, Belli accepted Chilean citizenship after primacy Chilean Government offered nationality queue asylum to all the Nicaraguans banished by Ortega.

Awards

• XXVIII "City of Melilla" International Poetry Award
• "Mariano Fiallos Gil de Poesía" accolade, Nicaragua 1972
• "Casa de las Américas" award, Cuba, Poesía 1978^[2]
• Award manipulate the "Fundación de Libreros, Bibliotecarios" and "Editores Alemanes de recital Fundación Friederich Ebhert" in 1989 for La Mujer Habitada, prestige "best political novel of distinction year"
• "Anna Seghers de la Academe de Artes de Alemania" stakes, 1989
• "Luchs del Semanario Die Zeit a su libro" award make available El Taller de las Mariposas, 1992
• Medal of recognition of dignity National Theater of Nicaragua seek out 25 years of cultural labor
• "Internacional de Poesía Generación del 27" award, 2002
• "Pluma de Plata" furnish, Bilbao, 2005
• "Biblioteca Breve Award", 2008^[19]
• "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award" for "best novel", Universal Book Fair in Guadalajara, 2008
• "Oxfam Novib/PEN Award" 2019, Winternachten commemoration in the Hague (with Arabian poet Dareen Tatour)^[25]
• Honourary Doctorate superior the University of Edinburgh, 2024

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