Nicaraguan writer and editor Sergio Ramírez has won the $250,000 Carlos Fuentes Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language, awarded by Mexico’s Arts and Culture Council (Conaculta) and National Autonomous University (UNAM) to authors writing in Spanish.

Ramírez is the author of more than 50 books, including novels, short stories and essays, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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