Ernesto Cardenal

Poet, Author

1925 –

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Who is Ernesto Cardenal?

Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet and politician. He is a famous liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years. A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.

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Born
Jan 20, 1925
Granada
Also known as
  • Ερνέστο Καρδενάλ
  • Карденаль, Эрнесто
Siblings
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • Nicaragua
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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