Sergio Ramírez

Sergio Ramírez (2011)

Sergio Ramírez Mercado (born August 5, 1942 in Masatepe , Masaya Department ) is a Nicaraguan writer , human rights activist and temporary politician .

Life

Ramirez lived in West Berlin between 1973 and 1975 on a scholarship from the DAAD's artist program . As a member of the FSLN and initiator of the Group of Twelve (an alliance of twelve Nicaraguan intellectuals close to the FSLN), he maintained contact with the Socialist International and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation during the fight against Anastasio Somoza and in the following years . After the overthrow of the dictatorship in 1979, he was initially a member of the five-member government junta and vice-president from 1984 to 1990.

In 1995 he founded the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista party because of differences of opinion, especially with the former Sandinista president, Daniel Ortega , because he did not want to support Ortega's dogmatic course.

In 2001 he was visiting professor in Berlin, previously temporarily in Washington and Los Angeles. Ramírez lives in Nicaragua. He writes novels, essays, short stories and poems. In 2017 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize. In 2018 he also received Spanish citizenship.

“As perhaps nowhere else on the planet, we writers in Latin America have seen ourselves as prophets of our time. That may seem arrogant. But we have at least one role that is inevitable: We are witnesses, and as such we are also chroniclers. Contemporary history has always been in the essence of our writing, and it has never been possible to tell private stories away from the big stage of contemporary history. "

- Sergio Ramírez 2006

Awards

In 1985 he received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights . Five years later he won the prestigious Hammett Prize for his detective novel Castigo divino .

In 1998 he received the Spanish Premio Alfaguara de Novela for the novel Margarita, está linda la mar .

2014: Premio Carlos Fuentes of the Republic of Mexico

2017: Cervantes Prize

Works (selection)

Tiempo de fulgor. 1970
- Chronicle of the San Juan de Dios Hospital, recorded by Sister María Teresa . Novel. Hammer, Wuppertal 1973, ISBN 3-87294-048-1 ; dtv, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-87294-048-1
De tropeles y tropelías. 1973
- Of the President's pleasure. Stories from Nicaragua. Hammer, Wuppertal 1981, ISBN 3-87294-178-X
El pensamiento vivo de Sandino. 1975
- Viva Sandino! Life and death of the first Latin American guerrilla leader. Hammer, Wuppertal 1973, ISBN 3-87294-077-5
Te dio miedo la sangre? 1977
- The trail of the Caballeros . Novel. Authors Edition , Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7610-0561-X ; dtv, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-10158-X
El alba de oro. 1983
- With the weapons of the future. Texts on the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. Hammer, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87294-256-5
Clave de sol. 1992
- Tropical waltz . Stories. dipa, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-7638-0332-7
Un Baile de Máscaras. 1995
- Mask dance . Novel. Hammer, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-87294-786-9
Margarita, está linda la mar , 1998
- Margarita, how beautiful is the sea . Stockmann-Verlag Austria, Bad Vöslau 2012, ISBN 978-3-9502750-6-3
Adiós Muchachos. Una memoria de la revolución sandinista. 1999
- Adios muchachos! A reminder of the Sandinista revolution. Hammer, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-87294-871-7
Catalina y Catalina. 2001
- Forgive and forget . Stories. edition 8 , Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85990-010-2 .
La manzana de oro . Iberoamericana, Madrid and Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86527-713-8 .
- Punishment from god. More than a detective novel. edition 8, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85990-178-0 .
El cielo llora por mí , San José, Costa Rica (Alfaguara) 2008
- The sky is crying for me . Kriminalroman, Zurich (edition 8) 2015. ISBN 978-3-85990-248-0

Web links

Commons : Sergio Ramírez - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Sergio Ramírez - Quotes

Literature by and about Sergio Ramírez in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Sergio Ramírez in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Literature by and about Sergio Ramírez in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
Homepage of Sergio Ramírez
Biography
Essay by Ramírez on the occasion of Intern. PEN conference in Berlin 2006
Current information from the Nicaragua portal on Sergio Ramírez
Article by Sergio Ramírez on the literature of Nicaragua: "Enciclopedia de Literatura Nicaraguense" (Spanish)

Footnotes

↑ Ex-Vice President of Nicaragua: "It seems like we are living in a drugged country," az, April 8, 2018
^ Free University of Berlin : Sergio Ramírez - Samuel Fischer visiting professor in the summer semester 2001
↑ Javier Rodríguez Marcos: Sergio Ramírez dedica su Premio Cervantes a “los nicaragüenses asesinados estos días por reclamar justicia” . In: El País . April 23, 2018, ISSN 1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed April 24, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Ramírez, Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ramírez Mercado, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nicaraguan writer, human rights activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Masatepe , Masaya Department

[1] Ex-Vice President of Nicaragua: "It seems like we are living in a drugged country," az, April 8, 2018

[2] Free University of Berlin : Sergio Ramírez - Samuel Fischer visiting professor in the summer semester 2001

[3] Javier Rodríguez Marcos: Sergio Ramírez dedica su Premio Cervantes a “los nicaragüenses asesinados estos días por reclamar justicia” . In: El País . April 23, 2018, ISSN 1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed April 24, 2019]).