| LC control no. | n 50054910 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ7519.2.R25 |
| Personal name heading | Ramírez, Sergio, 1942- |
| Variant(s) | Ramírez Mercado, Sergio, 1942- Mercado, Sergio Ramírez, 1942- Ramírez M., Sergio (Ramírez Mercado), 1942- |
| Other standard no. | 0000000108160007 109503769 Q1358652 |
| Associated country | Nicaragua |
| Associated place | Managua (Nicaragua) Spain |
| Located | Madrid (Spain) |
| Birth date | 1942 |
| Place of birth | Masatepe (Nicaragua) |
| Affiliation | Universidad Nacional de Nicaragua |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Politicians Writers Novelists Exiles |
| Found in | His Nuevos cuentos, 1969. Sandino, A.C. 4 de mayo, día de la dignidad nacional, 1980: t.p. (Sergio Ramírez M.) Catalina y Catalina, 2001: p. 2 of cover (Sergio Ramírez; b. 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua; recd. law degree in 1964 from Univ. Nac. de Nicaragua; Vice President of Nicaragua, 1985) Divine punishment, 2015: CIP (Sergio Ramirez) data view (b. Masatepe, Nicaragua, 1942; author of over thirty novels, memoirs, story- and essay-collections, is one of Latin America's most important literary figures. In addition to his masterwork Castigo Divino (1988; Divine Punishment, 2015), his other works include Margarita, está linda la mar (1998; Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, 2007) and Mil y una muertes (2004; A Thousand Deaths Plus One, 2009); he also served as the Vice President of Nicaragua (1984-1990); most recently, he was awarded the prestigious Carlos Fuentes Prize (2014); he lives in Managua) New York times, 4 Sept. 2023: in an article entitled, "A novelist betrayed by what he helped build" on page C1 (Sergio Ramírez, a central figure in Nicaraguan literature and politics for six decades; prizewinning author of dozens of novels, short-story collections and works of nonfiction; now lives in Madrid, where he spends the mornings of his exile writing -- Ramírez has been forced into exile twice; once for his role in a revolution and once after writing, in a work of fiction, about what that revolution became) |
| Associated language | spa |
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