And was disrupted by at least 100 pro-Ortega protestors who shouted "viva Daniel" and "traitor" at his Nicaraguan flag-draped casket
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Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez 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 t…
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politics · Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician (1925-2020) · poet · Catholic priest · sculptor · painter · theologian · translator · politician · writer · visual artist · revolutionary · also Ernesto Cardenal, Ernesto Cardenal Martínez, Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, Cardenal
Born 20 January 1925 · Died 1 March 2020 · Q276510
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2020· 2 entries
Died 2020-03-01.
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Premio Internacional Mario Benedetti (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Wuppertal (2017).
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Theodor Wanner Prize (2014).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Reina Sofía Award (2012).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Huelva (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
To promote his newest work stirred up some controversy, as with the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property that protested his appearances at Catholic schools such as Xavier University in Cinci
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award (2009).
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1994· 1 entry
Protesting the authoritarian direction of the party under Daniel Ortega, calling it a "robbery of the people and dictatorship not a revolutionary movement" when he left the government
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1987).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Granada (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
By Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019
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1983· 1 entry
Openly scolded Ernesto Cardenal, who knelt before him on the Managua airport runway, for resisting his order to resign from the government, and admonished him: "Usted tiene que arreglar sus asuntos con la Iglesia" ("Y
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of culture (1979–1987).
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: holy orders.
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1956· 1 entry
In 1957 he entered the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemani (Kentucky, United States), joining another poet-priest, Thomas Merton, who was the master of novices; but in 1959, he left to study theology in Cuernavaca, Mexico
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1949· 1 entry
And 1950, he traveled through Italy, Spain and Switzerland
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1947· 1 entry
Studied at Columbia University (1946–1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Studied at Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM (1942–1946).
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-01-20.
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