Poet and novelist Gioconda Belli is one of the leading female voices in Nicaraguan and Latin American literature – a pioneer of revolutionary poetry and of the revolution itself.
Her work explores love, freedom, and political transformation, blending lyricism with narrative strength

She´s written six books of poetry. Her first novel, La mujer habitada, 1988 was awarded the Ana Seghers Prize and the Prize for the Best Political Novel of 1989 in Germany. Other novels are: Sofía de los presagios, (1990), Waslala (1996), The Scroll of Seduction (2005), Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand, 2008 (winner of the Biblioteca Breve and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz literary prizes) and “In the land of Women“(2010), winner of the La Otra Orilla Latin American Fiction Prize. In 2001, Belli published El país bajo mi piel, (The Country Under my Skin), subtitled memoirs of love and war, an intimate retelling of the history of the Sandinista movement and her participation in the historic events it precipitated. The book was a finalist at The Los Angeles Times Book Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the Andrés Sabella International Prize for Literary Merits at Antofagasta, Chile, and received the Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana in 2023, was a finalist for the VI Vargas Losa Novel Biennial Award 2025 with A Silence Full of Whispers, and received the Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria 2025.

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