Gioconda Belli
Nicaraguan poet and novelist who was active in the Sandinista revolution and whose passionate verse celebrates female eroticism and political commitment. The Inhabited Woman is her most celebrated novel.
Works
- The Inhabited WomanMagical realist novel of women and revolution set in fictional Central America
- The Country Under My SkinMemoir of political activism and personal journey in Sandinista Nicaragua
- The Scroll of SeductionHistorical novel of seduction and power across Spanish conquest and modernity
- From Eve's Rib
- WaslalaAllegorical novel of exile, search, and utopian hope in Central America