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Gioconda Belli

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Born: December 08 1948

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Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet.

Gioconda Belli, partly of Northern Italian descent, was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975. Returning in 1979 just before the Sandinista victory, she became FSLN's international press liaison in 1982 and the director of State Communications in 1984. During that time she met Charles Castaldi, an American NPR journalist, whom she married in 1987. She has been living in both Managua and Los Angeles since 1990. She has since left the FSLN and is now a major critic of the current government.

Belli graduated from the Royal School of Santa Isabel in Madrid, Spain and studied advertising and journalism in Philadelphia.

In 1988, Belli's book La Mujer Habitada , a semi-autobiographical novel that raised gender issues for the first time in the Nicaraguan revolutionary narratives, brought her increased attention; this book has been published in several languages and was on the reading list at four universities in the United States. The novel follows two parallel stories: the indigenous resistance to the Spanish and modern insurgency in Central America with various points in common: women's emancipation, passion, and a commitment to liberation. In 2000, she published her autobiography, emphasizing her involvement in the revolutionary movement, El país bajo mi piel, published under the name The Country Under My Skin in the United States; it was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2003. Belli continues publishing and maintains that poetry is her most important work. Belli was the recipient of the Premio de Poesía Mariano Fiallos Gil in 1972 and of the Premio Casa de las Américas in 1978. In 2008 Belli received the Biblioteca Breve Award for her book El infinito en la palma de la mano , an allegory about Adam and Eve in paradise.

Belli's books have been published in numerous languages.

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La mujer habitada

El país de las mujeres

The Scroll of Seduction

Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand: A Novel of Adam and Eve

Sofía de los presagios

El intenso calor de la luna

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El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra

Las fiebres de la memoria

El ojo de la mujer

The Butterfly Workshop

El taller de las mariposas

Die Werkstatt der Schmetterlinge

Die Werkstatt der Schmetterlinge

De schepping van de vlinders

Die Blume und der Baum : eine Liebesgeschichte

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