Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli was born on 9 December 1948 in Managua, into a well-off family, studied in Spain and the United States, then worked in advertising. Having joined the clandestine struggle of the Sandinista Front in 1970, she had to go into exile in Mexico and Costa Rica from 1975 to 1979. Returning with the revolution, she was put in charge of the Front's international press, then of the State's communications. Winner of the Casa de las Américas poetry prize in 1978 and a critic of Daniel Ortega's regime, she was stripped of her nationality in 2023 and lives in Madrid.

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• NovelThe Inhabited WomanLa mujer habitadaGioconda Belli · 1988Literature