The Dickey Center is pleased to welcome

SERGIO RAMIREZ

Writer and Former Vice President of Nicaragua  (1985-1990)

as the Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Lecturer

 NICARAGUA: THE LOST REVOLUTION

Monday, November 9, 2009

4:30 p.m. 

Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Sergio Ramírez is a Nicaraguan writer and currently a Robert F. Kennedy Professor in Latin American Studies for Fall 2009 in teh Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. He was vice-president of Nicaragua from 1984-90 during the period of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government. In 1995 he broke from the FSLN to form the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista (MRS). He is the author of novels and essays that address culture, politics and society. His many books include Margarita, está linda la mar, (1998) El reino animal (2006); Adiós muchachos  ( 2007); Cuando todos hablamos ( 2008); and El cielo llora por mi  (2009). His works have been translated into fifteen languages, and have recieved many awards, including the Premio Internacional Dashiell Hammett and the Premio Internacional de Novels Alfaguara.