(Nicaragua, 1925) This poet, priest, theologian, translator, sculptor and politician is particularly well known for his poetry writing. He studied literature at the University of Mexico and then at Columbia University in New York. In 1957 he entered a Trappist monastery in Kentucky in the United States and stayed there until 1959. He later studied for the priesthood in Mexico and Colombia and in 1965 was ordained. In 1966, with the support of Thomas Merton, he founded a small contemplative commune in Nicaragua. In 1970 he travelled to see the revolutionary processes in Cuba, Peru and Chile. In 1979 he was appointed Ministry of Culture. In 2009 he won the Pablo Neruda Iberoamerican Prize for Poetry and in 2012 the Reina Sofía Iberoamerican Poetry Prize. In 2010 he was appointed to the Mexican Academy of the Language. His best-known works are:
Vuelos de Victoria (1984),
Cántico Cósmico (1989),
Versos del Pluriverso (2005),
Hidrógeno Enamorado (2012) and his latest work is
Somos Polvo de Estrellas, an anthology published in 2013.