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Darío offers a poetic route through modernismo, while Cardenal joins documentary forms with revolution, religion and the cosmos. Belli presents political commitment through fiction and personal memoir. Ramírez interweaves national history with poetry, investigation and irony. The selection moves between linguistic classics and disputes about power and memory.
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Lavinia, an independent architect, becomes involved in resistance against a dictatorship.
Original title: La mujer habitada
University of Wisconsin Press
Translated by Kathleen March
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This memoir connects the writer’s coming of age with participation in the Sandinista revolution and exile.
Original title: El país bajo mi piel
Two periods of Nicaraguan history connect Rubén Darío’s poetry with the assassination of Somoza.
Original title: Margarita, está linda la mar
An alleged poisoner’s case in 1930s León exposes gossip, corruption and social ambition.
Original title: Castigo divino
This selection of poetry and prose introduces the Nicaraguan pioneer of Spanish-language modernismo.
Six decades of poetry move from romantic epigrams through revolution and religion toward ecology and the cosmos.
Adam and Eve discover life beyond Eden in a fictional reimagining of humanity’s biblical beginnings.
The story of Joanna of Castile becomes entwined with the relationship between a modern schoolgirl and an art historian.
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