Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli was born in 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua. From 1970 onward, she participated in the resistance against the Somoza dictatorship. Her international breakthrough came in 1988 with the novel *The Inhabited Woman*, which also established her reputation in Germany. She published numerous novels and poetry collections, as well as an autobiography, and became one of the best-known Latin American authors internationally.