Cardenal, Ernesto

LC control no.	n 79058833
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ7519.C34
Personal name heading	Cardenal, Ernesto *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Karntenal, Ernesto Cardenal Martínez, Ernesto Martínez, Ernesto Cardenal
Associated country	Nicaragua
Located	Solentiname Islands (Nicaragua)
Birth date	1925-01-20
Death date	2020-03-01
Place of birth	Granada (Nicaragua)
Place of death	Managua (Nicaragua)
Field of activity	Theology Art Nicaraguan poetry Cultural policy Nicaragua--Politics and government
Profession or occupation	Priests Poets Sculptors Cabinet officers Revolutionaires
Found in	Ansias y lengua de la poesía nueva nicaragüense, 194- Ernesto Karntenal kai Roke D̲alton, 1992. Vida perdida, c1999- : v. 1, Nicaraguan CIP (Cardenal Martínez, Ernesto) Nele de Kantule, 1974: t.p. (Ernesto Cardenal) Wikipedia, 1 Nov. 2010 (Ernesto Cardenal; Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born January 20, 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas; from 1979 to 1987 he served as Nicaragua's first culture minister; also famous as a poet and was the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived since 1977) Washington post WWW site, viewed March 3, 2020 (in obituary dated March 2, 2020: Father Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan poet, priest and political revolutionary who wielded his pen as a weapon against two autocratic regimes--the Somoza family dynasty and the left-wing Sandinista party that took its place--died March 1 in Managua, Nicaragua's capital. He was 95. Father Cardenal, a sculptor as well as a writer, presided over a sprawling art colony, turning Solentiname into a haven for painters and spiritual seekers alike. Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was born in Granada, on the shores of Lake Nicaragua, on Jan. 20, 1925)