Awards:

• Sor Juana de la Cruz Award, 2008
• Premio Biblioteca Breve, Seix Barral 2008
• Premio Ciudad de Melilla, Spain, 2007 Poetry
• Pluma de Plata Award, Bilbao, 2005
• Mi intima multitud (poetry) International Poetry Prize “Generacion del 27” Spain, 2002
• Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Award for the memoir The Country Under my skin, 2003
• Luchs del Semanario Die Zeit Award for “El Taller de las Mariposas”ilustrated by Wolf Elbruch, 1992.
• Ana Seghers Prize, Germany 1989
• Friedrich Ebhert Foundation Book Sellers, Editors and Publishers Best Political Novel of the Year Award, for The Inhabited Woman, 1989
• Casa de las Americas poetry prize, 1978
• National University of Nicaragua poetry prize, 1972