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Ernesto Cardenal at the 3rd annual International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua.
Ernesto Cardenal at the 3rd annual International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua. Granada, with an estimated population of 110326 (2003 is Nicaragua 's fourth most populous city and capital of the Granada Department.

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nicaraguans ( Spanish: Nicaragüense; also Nica, Nicoya and Pinolero) are people inhabiting in originating or having significant heritage A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities Liberation theology is a school of Theology within Christianity, particularly in the Roman Catholic Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) is a socialist Nicaraguan Political party. From 1979 to 1987 he served as Nicaragua's first culture minister. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) He is also famous as a poet, and he still writes poetry. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Cardenal was also the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived more than ten years (1965-1977). Primitivism refers to a an artistic movement in particular which originated as a reaction to the Enlightenment, or b the general tendency to idealize any social behavior The Solentiname Islands (solεntiˈname are an Archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca in the Nicaraguan department Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays

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Early life

Born into an upper class family in Granada, Nicaragua, he is first cousin-of Pablo Antonio Cuadra. Granada, with an estimated population of 110326 (2003 is Nicaragua 's fourth most populous city and capital of the Granada Department. Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002 was a Nicaraguan essayist art and Literary critic, Playwright, Graphic artist and one of the Cardenal studied literature first in Managua and from 1942 to 1946 in Mexico. Managua is the Capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality by the same name Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Later, from 1947 to 1949, he continued his studies in New York and traveled through Italy, Spain and Switzerland between 1949 and 1950. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In July 1950, he returned to Nicaragua, where he participated in the 1954 "April Revolution" against Anastasio Somoza García's regime. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Anastasio Somoza García ( February 1, 1896 &ndash September 29, 1956) was officially the thirty-fourth and thirty-ninth President The coup d'état failed and ended with the deaths of many of his associates. Ernesto Cardenal subsequently entered the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemani (Kentucky, United States), under the other poet-priest Thomas Merton, but in 1959 he left to study theology in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Trappist redirects here This article is about the Cistercian order The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Thomas Merton ( 31 January 1915 – 10 December 1968) was one of the most influential Catholic writers of the 20th century The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective Cuernavaca (Cuauhnāhuac|kʷaw̥'naːwak is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. Cardenal Had visited India and met the Hungryalist poets of Kolkata who had to undergo 35 months tortuous trial for writing poetry.

Cardenal was ordained a Catholic priest in 1965 in Granada. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. [1] He went to the Solentiname Islands where he founded a Christian, almost monastic, mainly peasant community, which eventually led to the founding of the artists' colony. The Solentiname Islands (solεntiˈname are an Archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca in the Nicaraguan department It was there that the famous book El Evangelio de Solentiname ("The Gospel of Solentiname") was written. Cardenal collaborated closely with the Marxist Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front, or FSLN), in working to overthrow Anastasio Somoza Debayle's régime. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) is a socialist Nicaraguan Political party. Anastasio ("Tachito" Somoza Debayle (anasˈtasjo soˈmosa ðeˈβaile ( December 5, 1925 &ndash September 17, 1980) was officially
Many members of the community of Solentiname engaged with the process of the Revolution, in the guerrilla warfare that the FSLN had developed to strike the regime. For this matter, 1977 was a crucial year to Cardenal's community since Somoza's National Guard, as a result from an attack to the headquarters stationed in the city of San Carlos, a few miles from the community, raided Solentiname and burned to the ground the community, with Cardenal fleeing to Costa Rica. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays In Nicaragua, the National Guard (Guardia Nacional otherwise known as es ''Guardia'' was a Militia created during the occupation of that country by the San Carlos is the capital city of the Municipality of San Carlos and of the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in On 19 July 1979, immediately after the Fall of Managua, he was named Minister of Culture by the new Sandinista regime. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The Nicaraguan Revolution ( Revolución Nicaragüense or Revolución Popular Sandinista, also RPS) embodies a major historical part not only to Nicaragua He occupied this office until 1987, when his ministry was closed owing to economic reasons. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) When Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua in 1983, he openly scolded Cardenal, who knelt before him on the Managua airport runway, for resisting his order to resign from the government. Pope Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) The Pope admonished Cardenal: Usted tiene que arreglar sus asuntos con la Iglesia ("You must make good your dealings with the Church"). History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and

Cardenal left the FSLN in 1994, protesting the authoritarian direction of the party by Daniel Ortega but insists that he has retained his Leftist opinions. The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) is a socialist Nicaraguan Political party. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (xoˈse ðanjεl ɔrteγa saˈβeðra(born 11 November 1945 is the current President of Nicaragua. For this matter, he is a member of the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista (or MRS / Sandinist Renovation Movement) that participated in the 2006 Nicaraguan General Elections (the formula was Edmundo Jarquín, president / Carlos Mejía Godoy, vicepresident). The Sandinista Renovation Movement ( Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista or MRS in Spanish is a Nicaraguan political party founded by dissidents of the Sandinista Edmundo Jarquín (born in Ocotal, September 1946 is a Nicaraguan politician Carlos Mejía Godoy (born June 27, 1943) is a Nicaraguan musician composer and singer Days before the election, Cardenal stated, in a clear reference to his dispute with Ortega, that "I think it would be more desirable an authentic capitalism, as Montealegre's (Eduardo Montealegre, the presidential candidate for Alianza Liberal Nicaragüense) would be, than a false Revolution". Eduardo Montealegre (born May 9 1955) is a Nicaraguan politician The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( Spanish: Alianza Liberal Nicaragüense – ALN was started in 2005 by Eduardo Montealegre and other members [1]

He is also a member in the board of advisers of the newly launched TV station TeleSUR. La Nueva Televisora del Sur ( Spanish for "The New Television Station of the South" named teleSUR, is a pan- Latin American terrestrial

Cardenal has been for a long time a polemical figure of Nicaragua's literature and cultural history. For some an awkward mix of mystic, poet and guerrilla. For others, "the most important poet right now in Latin America"[2], politically and poetically, he's been a very vocal figure of Nicaragua, and a valid key to analize and understand the contemporaneous literary and cultural life of Nicaragua.

Recognition

Ernesto Cardenal received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1980. The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ( Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) is an international peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar)

Cardenal was nominated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literaturein May 2005. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred

Cardenal participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007. The Stock Exchange of Visions is a project initiated in 2006 by Fabrica Benetton 's research center

Cardenal won the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, MA on November 1st 1990. [3]

Bibliography

Poetry

Notes

  1. ^ La Prensa, November 2, 2006. Managua's Daily Newspaper (in spanish) http://www-ni.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2006/noviembre/02/noticias/ultimahora/153819.shtml
  2. ^ La Prensa August 26, 2007, (in spanish) http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2007/agosto/26/noticias/enfoque/.
  3. ^ http://www.peaceabbey.org/awards/cocrecipientlist.html

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