I am a  Nicaraguan poet, writer and political activist. I was involved in the Nicaraguan Revolution from a very young age. I left the Sandinista Party in 1993 after Daniel Ortega’s turned it into his fiefdom. I won the Casa de las Americas Prize in 1978 for my poetry book “Line of fire”, and the prize for the Best Political Novel of the Year in Germany in 1989 for my novel The Inhabited Woman. My work has been translated into many languages. I've written six novels, a memoir, six books of poetry and two children’s books, aside from essays and political commentary. My memoir “The Country under my skin” was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2003 . I have other prizes:  Biblioteca Breve for my novel, Infinity in the Palm of her hand. In 2010,  “La Otra Orilla Hispano-American Prize for  “El Pais de las Mujeres” (A Women’s Country). I divide my time between Los Angeles and Managua. I am married to Charles Castaldi and have four kids and four grand-kids
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