Gioconda Belli – författare

En kvinna reser från Nicaragua till Spanien för att ta sig an arvet efter modern. Kort därpå slår pandemin till och hon blir isolerad i ett hus utanför Madrid. Medan hon går igenom kvarlåtenskapen reflekterar hon över sin mors tid med sandinisterna, och sin egen roll under upproret 2018. Snart börjar märkliga saker inträffa, och med hjälp av en detektiv nystar hon upp hemligheter ur det förflutna.

Lives don't get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli. She may have been educated by nuns and dazzled all as a well-heeled society girl, but Gioconda lifted her "guilt of privilege" by joining the Sandinistas in her twenties, to serve and then lead in their underground resistance. If part of her wanted to fulfil society's classic code of femininity and produce four children (which she did), there was also part which wanted the privileges of men - the freedom to carry out clandestine operations, to forge the Sandinista resistance effort even with toddler and infant in tow.'Conspiracy came easy to me,' confesses Belli. She hid political pamphlets from her first husband as she hid her love affairs with remarkable men. This book is a journey of the heart, through marriages and grand passions, as well as an insider's view of a revolutionary movement.From Nicaragua and its intrig ue to Cuba where she locked horns with Castro, to exile in Costa Rica where she organised an underground network, back to a triumphant if short-lived Sandinista government where she was in charge of State television, Gioconda Belli' s life is one of real-life intrigue - political and romantic - and hard-won wisdom. And as a novelist and poet, Belli has created her self-portrait with great skill and eloquence.

Manuel is a man of many talents; an art historian and professor, he is also an exquisite storyteller. When he meets 16-year-old Lucía on an outing from her boarding school, he offers to narrate a story of dire consequences—that of the Spanish Queen Juana of Castile and her legendary love for her husband, Philippe the Handsome.Promised to Prince Philippe the Handsome to solidify ties between the Flemish and Spanish crowns, Queen Juana immediately fell in love with her betrothed with all the abandon and passion of her fiery personality. Theirs was one of the most tumultuous love stories of all time.But Juana, who was also one of the most learned princesses of the Renaissance, was forced to pay a high price for being headstrong and daring to be herself. Those at court who could not fathom Juana as heir to the throne of the most important empire of its day conspired against her and began to question her sanity. Eventually she came to be known as Juana the Mad. But was she really insane, or just a victim of her impetuosity and unbridled passion?As the novel unfolds, Lucía and Manuel become enmeshed in a complex psychological web that seduces and incites them to relive Juana and Philippe''s story, and eventually leads them to a mysterious manuscript that may hold the key to Juana''s alleged madness.

Lavinia is accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is also sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being. Then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent dictator and finds the courage to act.

En las elecciones de Faguas –país imaginario que aparece en las novelas de Gioconda Belli– ha triunfado el PIE (Partido de la Izquierda Erótica). Sus atrevidas integrantes tienen un propósito inclaudicable: cambiar el rumbo de su país, limpiarlo como si se tratara de una casa descuidada, barrerlo hasta sacarle brillo. Pero nada de esto resulta fácil para la presidenta Viviana Sansón y sus ministras, sometidas a constantes ataques por parte de sus enemigos. ¿Podrán sobrellevarlo y sobrevivir? ¿Será Faguas, al final de su administración, un país mejor? El país de las mujeres es una novela divertida y audaz, por la que la reconocida autora nicaragüense obtuvo el Premio Hispanoamericano de la Novela La Otra Orilla. 

Gioconda Belli's poetry, widely published and revered in Latin America and Europe, celebrates the longing for a society in which humanity constructs its future, animated by an inextinguishable erotic, maternal, and transcentendly loving desire. As Salman Rushdie wrote in his book, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey, her poetry is a ""kind of public love poetry that comes clower, to expressing the passion of Nicaragua than anything I [have] yet heard.""

In Faguas ist das Unglaubliche gelungen: Angeführt von der charismatischen Viviana Sansón hat eine Handvoll entschlossener Frauen den rückständigen Machos die Macht entrissen. Mit Hilfe ihrer »Partei der Erotischen Linken«, mit Humor, Toleranz und Selbstironie (und unterstützt durch einen Vulkanausbruch) haben sie jeden Bereich des öffentlichen Lebens übernommen. Das Land blüht auf – so sehr, dass selbst die Männer überzeugt sind. Doch eines Tages, bei einer flammenden Rede der Präsidentin Viviana, geschieht das Unfassbare: Ein Attentäter schießt die wichtigste Frau des Landes nieder. Viviana aber lässt sich selbst von ihrem eigenen Koma nicht aufhalten. Sie träumt einen Traum zwischen Leben und Tod, der zeigt: Das letzte Kapitel dieser Erfolgsgeschichte ist noch nicht geschrieben.Gioconda Bellis Die Republik der Frauen ist eine mitreißende Alternativweltgeschichte über den Kampf starker Frauen gegen den Machismo in Lateinamerika.