Conoce a Rubén Darío: Get to Know Rubén Darío (Spanish Edition)

by Sergio Ramírez, Pablo De Bella (illustrator)

They say that at the age of three he was already reading, and he was only thirteen years old when a newspaper published one of his poems, so they called him “the child poet.” His work was innovative and gave rise to an international literary Modernism. He is considered the most influential poet in the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Dicen que a los tres años ya leía, y tenía trece años cuando un periódico le publicó un poema, por eso lo llamaban “el poeta niño”. Su obra fue innovadora y dio inicio a un movimiento el modernismo. Se le considera el poeta de mayor influencia en el siglo XX en el mundo de habla hispana.

34 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2024

About the author

Sergio Ramírez Mercado (born August 5, 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.

Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963. He received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua of León in 1964, where he obtained the Gold Medal for being the best student.

In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals, priests, businesspeople, and members of civil society who publicly stated their support for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) in its struggle to topple the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction, where he presided over the National Council of Education. He was elected vice-president of Nicaragua in 1984 and was sworn in 1985.