WRITER

Sergio Ramírez

1942 - Today

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Sergio Ramírez Mercado (Latin American Spanish: [ˈseɾxjo raˈmiɾes]; born 5 August 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer". Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergio Ramírez has received more than 116,427 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sergio Ramírez is the 3,572nd most popular writer (down from 3,335th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Nicaragua and the 3rd most popular Nicaraguan Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 57.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sergio Ramírez ranks 3,572 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ernst Weiss, Robert Garnier, Liza Marklund, Safvet-beg Bašagić, and Robert W. Chambers. After him are Zsigmond Móricz, Graham Hancock, Krišjānis Barons, Richard Curtis, Emma Lazarus, and Louis Pergaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Sergio Ramírez ranks 316. Before him are Pamela Tiffin, Andrew Robinson, Bo Hopkins, Michael G. Wilson, Reinhard Mey, and Madeline Kahn. After him are Willis Reed, Bo Johansson, Jon Finch, Al Jardine, Eduard Markarov, and Ghada al-Samman.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Sergio Ramírez ranks 14 out of 34. Before him are Barbara Carrera (1945), Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Bianca Jagger (1945), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), and Gioconda Belli (1948). After him are Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), Edén Pastora (1936), Claribel Alegría (1924), Miguel Obando y Bravo (1926), José Santos Zelaya (1853), and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871).

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Among WRITERS In Nicaragua

Among writers born in Nicaragua, Sergio Ramírez ranks 3. Before him are Rubén Darío (1867), and Gioconda Belli (1948). After him are Claribel Alegría (1924).

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