Sergio Ramírez

NICARAGUA

(1942– ) Sergio Ramírez as born in Masatepe, Nicaragua. In the 1960s, he gained prominence as an intellectual and participated in the resistance against the Somoza government. He declared his support for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1977 as a member of the Group of Twelve, leading members of civil society who spoke out against Somoza. Ramírez was part of the transitional revolutionary junta in 1979, and was elected vice president in 1984. He broke with the FSLN in 1996, and now works primarily as a writer. His works include La Fugitiva / The Fugitive, Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution,Cuentos, and Margarita, está linda la mar.

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