Sergio Ramírez, new Cervantes Award. Three of his books.

The Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez has been the winner this year of the highest award for Spanish letters, the Cervantes Prize, which was granted yesterday, Book Day, in Alcalá de Henares. With an extensive and varied literary work, Sergio Ramírez, 75, is novelist, essayist, poet and journalist. He also developed a intense political activity and was vice president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990Last November, the jury chaired by the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, decided to award him the most prestigious prize in Spanish literature.

I highlight in this article three of his books. Uno with a marked accent on political memory of your country and two pitch black starring him Inspector Dolores Morales. But there are many more.

Bye guys

Ramírez was exceptional witness of the Sandinista Revolution and, as I have said, he served as vice president during the term of Daniel Ortega. With the defeat in the 1990 general elections the country's transformation process stopped and hopes for change disappeared. In this book the author compiles the memory of a generation who fought for democracy and justice in Nicaragua after seeing how his political renovation project was left unfinished.

Heaven cries for me

Sergio Ramírez has also cultivated the detective novel and this is the first title starring the inspector Dolores Morales. It was published in 2008 and in it the author portrays a world full of narcos, crimes, corruption and abuses of power. The protagonists are two former guerrillas and members of the Nicaraguan Police Department of Narcotics, the inspector Morales and the deputy inspector Dixon.

They will be the ones to investigate the disappearance of a woman. The only clues they have are a I already abandoned and suspected of transporting drugs, a book burned and a T-shirt bloody. But the case will also get worse after the appearance of various corpses, including that of the main witness.

The story is set in a Managua chaotic and hot, where the two protagonists bravely and humorously confront the dangerous Cali and Sinaola cartels. But they will also clash with former comrades in the insurrection who have betrayed their old ideals. Narrated with tension and irony, Ramírez gives us an acid vision of a society in which the forces of good can also sometimes be the forces of evil.

Nobody cries for me anymore

Published last year, we meet again at Inspector Morales. But he is discharged from the National Police for years and now works as private detective investigating adulteries for low-income clients. Has an agency in a shopping center come down again in Managua. Then an unforeseen event is going to take you out of the routine. It's about the disappearance of stepdaughter of one of the most powerful men in the country and Morales is commissioned to find her.

But soon the disappearance of the girl turns out to be the tip of an iceberg that hides the sewers of the political system and social of the country. Thus, Morales understands that what he must discover is not only the girl's whereabouts, but the real reasons what is behind that disappearance.

Ramírez once again uses his extraordinary handling of the humor and irony, in addition to his narrative mastery that characterizes his work. And also again we find sexo, money, corruption and plots of power as the keys to this case in which no one is entirely innocent.

Other titles

  • Shared trades
  • Did the blood scare you?
  • A masquerade ball
  • Perfect game
  • Open Doors
  • Margarita, the sea is beautiful
  • Only shadows
  • One thousand and one deaths
  • The animal kingdom
  • Divine punishment
  • The fugitive
  • The old art of lying
  • The Golden Apple: Essays on Literature
  • Stories to be told
  • Confession of love
  • Dark flowers
  • The Golden Dawn: The Living History of Nicaragua
  • Sara

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