One of the Most Important Modern Authors of Latin America Will Visit the UNWE
The UNWE and the Cervantes Institute - Sofia organize a meeting with the Nicaraguan politician, intellectual, journalist and writer Mr. Sergio Ramirez. He has written more than 50 books translated into many languages in the field of journalism, drama, historical fiction, detective stories and documentaries. Over the years he has been awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize and the most prestigious prize in Spanish literature - the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, for his complete works. Sergio Ramirez is the author of more than 20 novels, including Margarita, How Beautiful is the Sea which won Spain's Alfaguara Prize. His other novels translated into Bulgarian are Fire Time, God's Punishment, Heaven Weeps for Me, No One Weeps for Me Anymore. Sergio Ramirez began his literary career as a short story writer. His first short story entitled The Student was published in Ventana magazine in 1960. His first book of short stories entitled Stories was published in 1963. His first novel, Fire Time, was published in 1967. Since then he has been alternating between literary and journalistic writing.
Mr. Sergio Ramirez will meet with students studying Spanish on 10 October at 11.30. There will also be an open meeting on the same day at 18.30 to launch his new book translated into Bulgarian - Tongolele CouldN`t Dance. The meetings will take place in the Large Conference Hall.
All lovers of literature and crime fiction are welcome.
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The publishers promoting Sergio Ramirez's books in Bulgaria - Matcom and Tonipress - will attend the meeting and will participate for the first time in the 4th edition of the University Book Week which will be held from 6 to 10 November 2023.
In his book Tongolele Couldn't Dance, Sergio Ramirez gradually uncovers a conspiracy full of secrets, betrayals and dark manoeuvres that Inspector Morales, supported by Lord Dixon, Mrs. Sophia Smith and the rest of his partners, must confront. The man he is investigating, nicknamed Tongolele, is coldly and cynically pulling the strings of Nicaraguan politics.
"Sergio Ramirez has always seems to me as an extraordinary man. His life is a fiery mixture of two passions: words and justice. Words as a delirium, as a game, as a challenge, as a pleasure. Justice has become the daily desire with which he loves, denies and fights for Nicaragua." - Angeles Mastretta
"A fiction linked to reality, a precise X-ray of the Nicaraguan tragedy spiced with magical elements." - Carlos Maldonado, El País
"The first living writer of short stories on the Latin American continent and one of the best in Spanish. A world for every story.” - Javier Sancho Mas, Babelia
"A brave book written from the pain of a humiliated country, its ridiculed dream. A vivid portrait of a fractured and devastated country that moves between the esoteric appeals and mocking memes. Perhaps the book's greatest appeal is that Ramirez writes from experience: his book tastes of truth." - Selena Milares, InfoLibre
