Gioconda Belli

NICARAGUA

(1948– ) Gioconda Belli was born in Managua, Nicaragua. She joined the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) in 1970 and was involved in the underground resistance movement until 1975 when she had to flee the Somoza regime’s secret police and go into exile. When the Sandinistas came to power in 1979, she held various government positions, working primarily in communications, journalism, and public relations. She left the Sandinista Party in 1993 is now a vocal critic of the Ortega government. Her works include The Butterfly Workshop, El Infinito en la Palma de la Mano,The Inhabited Woman, The Scroll of Seduction,The Country Under My Skin, and Line of Fire , which won the Casa de las Americas Prize in 1978. Belli’s website.

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