Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli: (1948), is a Nicaraguan poet and novelist. She’s had an active political life in her country as a feminist and defender of human rights. Although she was part of the struggle to topple Somoza’s regime and the Sandinista Revolution (1979), she split from the new Sandinismo of Daniel Ortega in 1993. She writes both poetry and novels. Her poetry has received many prizes. Her extraordinary memoir is The Country Under my Skin. She is a member of the Nicaraguan Royal Academy of Letters and Chevalier des les Arts et Letres of France. Her works have been translated into 20 languages.