Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli (Managua, December 9, 1948) is a Nicaraguan poet, novelist and activist. Her literary work is characterized by her political commitment and by rescuing and deepening the feminine universe, claiming the role of women in society and in the construction of culture, even putting forward a feminist utopia in her work.1 In 1972 , With his first book On the grass, revolutionizes the Central American poetry when approaching without subject the body and the feminine sexuality. His activism led him to become a military officer in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and to occupy for a time (1979 to 1994) positions of responsibility once the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza.