by Sergio Ramírez · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420483818
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«Margarita, está linda la mar» is the historical novel by Sergio Ramírez, published in 1998 by Editorial Alfaguara in paperback, with 373 pages in Spanish.
«Margarita, está linda la mar» combines history and fiction to reconstruct modern Nicaragua from two moments: in 1907, Rubén Darío writes a verse on a girl's fan during a tribute in León; in 1956, that same woman takes part in the plot to assassinate dictator Anastasio Somoza.
«Margarita, está linda la mar» won the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 1998 and the José María Arguedas Narrative Prize in 2000.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American literature interested in the figure of Rubén Darío and twentieth-century Nicaragua.
Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer". Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.
