US EditionWriter Gioconda Belli Wins Carlos Fuentes International Prize 2025
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Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, who received Chilean nationality a month ago by grace, won on Friday the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in its 2025 edition “for her capacity for renewal” and her “dialogue between society, history and literature”, as reported by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), one of the institutions that awards the award. The jury, made up of academics, poets and novelists, decide…
Mexico City, Oct. 17 (EFE).- Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli was awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in its 2025 edition “for her capacity for renewal” and “dialogue between society, history and literature,” reported the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), one of the institutions that awards the award. UNAM’s Cultural Dissemination Coordination stated in its X account that – unanimously the jury – t…
Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, exiled in Madrid, won the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation on Friday for “her capacity to renew Hispanic-American poetry” and “for the strength of her dialogue between society, history and literature through her narrative.” The award is worth $125,000 and has been handed over unanimously by the jury. “I am greatly honored to receive this award for how much I admire this great writer, unfo…
Virginia BautistaFor Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli (1948), writing poetry and prose “is like playing two instruments; but poetry is the raw emotion, the purest.” In an interview with Excélsior last December, the poet and novelist commented that “there is a magic in writing, because one is developing the characters. And they grasp their own dynamics and personality. It is a process of discovery.” Because of her literary proposal, “her capacity…
The 76-year-old Nicaraguan poet and novelist was forced into exile for being a critical voice of Daniel Ortega’s regime Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli won on Friday (17.10.2025) the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in its 2025 edition “for her capacity for renewal” and her “dialogue between society, ...
The award is awarded by the Ministry of Culture and the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is "a recognition for those writers who have contributed to enriching the literary heritage of humanity."
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