MEMBER BLOG TAG: historical fiction
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:48PM | | | | A Picture of Sergio Ramirez | Tags: Sergio Ramirez, translation, historical fiction, Nicaragua, photography, World Voices
| | | | When I think of Sergio Ramírez a picture comes to mind: a photograph I took in 1986 or 1987 in Madison, Wisconsin. He gave a reading at UW-Madison, and various banners hung from the balcony of the University Chapel--red-and-black Sandinista flags and hand-painted banners that read, "U.S. OUT OF NICARAGUA," and "SOLIDARITY WITH THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE" I wondered what Ramírez through, as he juggled his identity as a writer with his duties as Vice-President of Nicaragua, as he observed an audience far more interested in him as a political figure, a symbol of the embattled Sandinista government resisting the interference of the mighty superpower to the north. And I were I to show him the photos I took, which accompanied my interview with him for... | | | | | |
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