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Ernesto Cardenal

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Nicaraguan priest and politician (1925-2020)

Religious FiguresLived 1925 to 2020 · aged 95
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Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, revolutionary, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965-1977).

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2018Premio Internacional Mario Benedetti
2017honorary doctor of the University of Wuppertal
2014Theodor Wanner Prize
2012Reina Sofía Award
2012Honorary doctor of the University of Huelva
2010Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
2009Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award
1987honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
1987honorary doctorate of the University of Granada
1980Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
Order of Augusto César Sandino
Order of José Martí
Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío
honorary doctor of Veracruzana University

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Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, revolutionary, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965-1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019.

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deceased
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Lived 1925 to 2020 · aged 95
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