Panama City, Panama. Authoritarian rulers are not concerned about the political impact that novels may have, but literature has the power to shape consciences, Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez and Cervantes Prize said Monday in an interview with the AFP.The novelist, exiled in Spain and stripped of his nationality for criticizing the Nicaraguan government, is in Panama to preside over the Central American literary festival. He was part of the Bo…
Panama City, Panama. Authoritarian rulers are not concerned about the political impact that novels may have, but literature has the power to shape consciences, Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez and Cervantes Prize said Monday in an interview with the AFP.The novelist, exiled in Spain and stripped of his nationality for criticizing the Nicaraguan government, is in Panama to preside over the Central American literary festival. He was part of the Bo…