Sergio Ramírez

Nicaraguan novelist and journalist, vice president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and winner of the 2017 Cervantes Prize · Nicaragua · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 84

Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer".

Sergio Ramírez is read about 79 times a day, in 26 languages.

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A life in dates

2026Ortega y Gasset AwardsAward2017Miguel de Cervantes PrizeAward2014Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish LanguageAwardMore about this2013Officer of Arts and LettersAward2011Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José DonosoAward2008Guggenheim FellowshipAward2000José María Arguedas PrizeAward1998Alfaguara PrizeAwardPrix Laure BataillonAward1993Chevalier des Arts et des LettresAward1990Named Member of the National Assembly of NicaraguaOffice1 January 1990Premio HammettAward1988Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human RightsAwardGrand Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of PeñafortAward1985Named Vice President of NicaraguaOffice1 January 1985 to 1 January 19901980Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of PeruAward1942Born5 August 1942

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Ramírez (right) on a foreign trip with Nora Astorga and Dutch Speaker of the House Dick Dolman 1982

Sergio Ramirez at home in Managua. September 2001

Awards

Ortega y Gasset Awards2026

Miguel de Cervantes Prize2017

Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language2014

Officer of Arts and Letters2013

Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso2011

Guggenheim Fellowship2008

José María Arguedas Prize2000

Honorary Doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal University2000

Alfaguara Prize1998

Prix Laure Bataillon1998

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres1993

Premio Hammett1990

Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights1988

Grand Cross of the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort1988

Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru1980

About this person

Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.

Country

Nicaragua