Gioconda Belli

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Gioconda Belli, 1989

Gioconda Belli (born December 9, 1948 in Managua , Nicaragua ) is a Nicaraguan writer and poet, one of the most internationally known Latin American authors.

Life

Gioconda Belli in 2007 in Nicaragua
Gioconda Belli speaks at the Leipzig Book Fair 2016 about her novella Mondhitze (2014).

She studied communication science in Spain and the USA . In 1970 she joined the FSLN , the Sandinista National Liberation Front against the dictatorship of the Somoza family. Her literary, social and political commitment met with harsh criticism from the bourgeoisie .

At the same time, her first published erotic poems caused a scandal in the strict Catholic Nicaragua in the early 1970s. However, Belli saw her concerns as an author further strengthened by the furore surrounding her. In 1975 she left Nicaragua and went first to Mexico , then to Costa Rica . Gioconda Belli returned to Nicaragua with her three children in 1978 and began working in political education and as a cultural editor. She now lives with her family in Los Angeles and Managua.

In 1978 she was awarded the Cuban Premio Casa de las Américas for her volume of poetry Línea de Fuego . Revolutionary and erotic poems are published in the volume. In 1989 she received the “ The Political Book ” prize from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and in 2018 the Hermann Kesten Prize from the German PEN Center for her commitment to freedom of expression.

Belli described Nicaragua as being controlled by Daniel Ortega's family in 2018 . (Belli: "Daniel Ortega and his family control the whole country, from the media to the police to the judiciary.") The president makes speeches with great pathos, but has not held a press conference once in the 12 years of his presidency. During the protests against the government of Ortega, demanding hundreds of dead , Belli first complained about the “absurd rhetoric” and then compared (as a former Sandinista) the propaganda of Ortega's wife Rosario Murillo “more with Goebbels than with Orwell ” (“This is more Goebbels than Orwell ”). In 1978 she actually hoped that Somoza would be the last tyrant she would see (in her country), but the slightly psychopathic presidential couple wrote one of the blackest chapters in Nicaragua's history and developed a clientele economy in the country .

Works

Novels

Poetry

  • Quetzalcóatl's dream. America's memory. Translated by Erna Pfeiffer . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1992.
  • Magic against the cold. Erotic poems (translated by Anneliese Schwarzer). Dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-12577-2 .
  • In the color of the morning. Poems. Dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-11565-3 .
  • If you wanna love me Collected poems (translated by Juliane Steinbach, Dieter Masuhr and Dagmar Ploetz ). Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 3-87294-837-7 .
  • Fireworks in my harbor (translated by Lutz Kliche). Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-87294-752-4 .
  • I am longing disguised as a woman. Poems (translated by Angelica Ammar and Dagmar Ploetz). Dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13375-9 .

Other

  • The workshop of the butterflies. A fairy tale (translated by Wolf Erlbruch ). Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-87294-607-2 .
  • The defense of happiness. Memories of love and war (translated by Lutz Kliche). Dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-13015-6 .
  • The flower and the tree. A love story (translated by Barbara Steinitz and Sigrid Groß). Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 3-7795-0069-8 .
  • Bearer of dreams. Audio book (read by Suzanne von Borsody , music by Grupo Sal ), 2007.

See also

literature

  • Michael Korth (ed.): Beautiful young man, your lusts for me. Love poems by women, a guide through the maze of love from Sappho to Gioconda Belli. Eichborn, Frankfurt / M. 1988, ISBN 3-8218-0185-9 .

Web links

Commons : Gioconda Belli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernesto Cardenal : La revolución perdida. Memorias tomo III. 2nd Edition. Anamá, Managua 2004, p. 67.
  2. ^ Hermann Kesten Prize to Gioconda Belli. In: boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on August 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Dominik Bloedner: Again dead in protests - the writer Gioconda Belli on the political crisis in Nicaragua. In: Badische Zeitung . May 31, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ 'Everyone is an enemy who's deserving of death, rape and jail'. Death squads have returned to Nicaragua. In: Public Radio International, July 18, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Gioconda Belli: Let's be Silent. In: confidencial.com.ni, June 14, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Gioconda Belli: “Ortega ha escrito una de las páginas más negras de la historia de Nicaragua, estamos asqueados” , July 22, 2018; “Estamos sufriendo unareprión peor, creo yo, que la de Somoza. Con una pareja como Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo, desenfrenada y un poco psicópata, que han reprimido a su propio pueblo ”.
personal data
SURNAME Belli, Gioconda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nicaraguan writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Managua , Nicaragua