Sergio Ramírez, writer and former vice president of Nicaragua, won the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 1998 with his work "Margarita, the sea is beautiful," an award he shared with Cuban Eliseo Alberto and his novel "Caracol Beach."
In conversation with the writer Wendy Guerra in "LibreXpresión", Ramírez tells what he thought at the time of receiving the award and highlights that this recognition meant "the opportunity to leave behind what had been my life in politics, not my political life, but my life in politics and take up literature again. "