Sergio Ramírez

Masatepe, Nicaragua, 1942. A Nicaraguan writer, journalist, politician and lawyer, he is an essential author of Latin American literature of the last 40 years and a key figure in Central American politics. After a long voluntary exile in Costa Rica and Germany, he temporarily abandoned his literary career to join the Sandinista Revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of the last Somoza. He was part of the National Reconstruction Governing Board that was created after the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution on July 19, 1979 and served as vice president under the mandate of Daniel Ortega until April 1990. He resumed his literary activity after winning the Alfaguara Award in 1998 with Margarita, está linda la mar. He is also the author, among others, of the following works: Sombras nada más (2002), A thousand and one deaths (2005), La fugitiva (2011), Flores oscuras (2013), Sara (2015) and the trilogy starring the inspector Dolores Morales, formed by The sky cries for me (2008), No one cries for me anymore (2017) and Tongolele did not know how to dance (2021). Among the awards he has obtained are the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Award (2011), the Carlos Fuentes International Award (2014) and the Cervantes Award (2017).

Interview: Luisa Etxenike

Luisa Etxenike is a writer and currently the director of Canal Europa. She runs the literary festival Un mundo de Escritoras, as well as a creative writing workshop for some years now. She has published, among others, the novels Los peces negros (2005), El ángulo ciego (Euskadi Literature Prize 2009), El detective de sonidos (2011), Aves del paraíso (2019), as well as the collection of poems El arte de la pesca (2015). She has also published Cruzar el agua (2022), Llevar en la piel (2023, winner of the Semana Negra Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize) and Cuerdas (2025). In 2007 she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.