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Sergio Ramírez
Sergio Ramírez Mercado (born August 5, 1942, in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist regarded as Nicaragua's most prominent living writer. A leading figure in the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza dictatorship, he served as Vice President of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 before leaving politics to focus on literature. His novels include Castigo Divino (1988), winner of Spain's International Dashiell Hammett Prize, and Adiós Muchachos (1999), a memoir of the re...