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Ernesto Cardenal
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Nicaraguan priest and politician (1925-2020)
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Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan poet, Catholic priest, sculptor, and painter born in Granada in 1925. A member of the Cistercians, he studied at Columbia University and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM. His professional life included serving as minister of culture and engaging with liberation theology, Nicaraguan literature, theology, and Marxism. He was influenced by Thomas Merton and wrote in Spanish, producing works such as *Del monasterio al mundo*, *Nikaragua şiir ırmağı*, *Vida en el amor*, *Antología de Ernesto Cardenal*, and *Watch For The Light*.
Cardenal was affiliated with the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Democratic Renewal Union. He held memberships in the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Casa de los tres mundos. His honors include the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, the Order of José Martí, and the Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío. He had a sibling named Fernando Cardenal.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 213
Top works
- Del monasterio al mundo
- Nikaragua şiir ırmağı
- Vida en el amor
- Antología de Ernesto Cardenal
- Watch For The Light
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Active from
- 1925
- Active to
- 2020
Discography
- Poemas1980
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 291
- Total plays
- 1,106
Tags
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Key facts
- Born
- Ernesto Cardenal Martínez , ( 1925-01-20 ) 20 January 1925, Granada, Nicaragua
- Died
- 1 March 2020 (2020-03-01) (aged 95), Managua , Nicaragua
- Occupations
- Poet liberation theologian
- Years active
- 1954–2020
- Known for
- Nicaraguan cultural figure
- Notable work
- The Gospel in Solentiname
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernesto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nicaragua
- Place of birth
- Argentina
- Place of death
- Managua
- Sibling
- Fernando Cardenal
- Occupation
- artist
- Position held
- minister of culture
- Political party
- Democratic Renewal Union
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Genre
- poetry
- Image
- Ernesto Cardenal a la Chascona 2.jpg
- Significant event
- holy orders
- Political ideology
- liberation theology
- Religious order
- Cistercians
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- Commons category
- Ernesto Cardenal
- date of birth
- 1925-01-20
- member of
- Casa de los tres mundos
- birth name
- Ernesto Cardenal Martínez
- second family name in Spanish name
- Martínez
- name in native language
- Ernesto Cardenal
- influenced by
- Thomas Merton
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
- date of death
- 2020-03-01
- cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- manner of death
- natural causes
- relative
- Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
- affiliation
- Democratic Renewal Union
- writing language
- Spanish
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Ernesto Cardenal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, revolutionary, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019.
Early life
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