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Gioconda Belli
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Gioconda Belli was born in Managua, Nicaragua in 1948.
Belli was involved in the
Nicaraguan Revolution from a very young age and occupied important
positions in the Sandinista Party and the Nicaraguan Writer’s Union.
She won the Casa de las Americas Prize in 1978 for her poetry book Line of Fire, and the prize for the Best Political Novel of the Year
in Germany in 1989 for her novel The Inhabited Woman. Her memoir The Country Under My Skin was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2003.
She resigned
from the Sandinista Party in 1993 and divides her time between
Nicaragua and Los Angeles. She is married to Charles Castaldi and has
four children. Her most recent novel, The Scroll of Seduction, will be published in
English by Rayo in September 2006.
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I still have faith
I cannot stop believing / We weren’t just meant to destroy each other I am a romantic / From the forgotten world.... 
