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Sergio Ramírez Takes Vargas Llosa's Chair at the Royal Spanish Academy

Nicaraguan exile and Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez will join the Royal Spanish Academy, filling the seat left vacant by Vargas Llosa's death.

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The Empty Chair: Sergio Ramírez, Sole Candidate for Spain's Royal Language Academy

Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramírez — exiled and stripped of his passport by the Ortega regime — is the sole candidate for Vargas Llosa's vacant seat at Spain's Royal Language Academy. A nomination that says as much about power as it does about literature.