Sergio Ramírez
Nicaraguan novelist and journalist, vice president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and winner of the 2017 Cervantes Prize
- Born
- 5 August 1942, Masatepe
- Age
- 84
Sergio Ramírez Mercado (born 5 August 1942) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer". Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.
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