This is a list of Spanish-language authors, organized by country.

Argentina

Roberto Arlt Roberto Arlt (April 26, 1900 – July 26, 1942) was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor. Biography He was born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1900. His parents were bo ...

(1900–1942) *

Adolfo Bioy Casares Adolfo Bioy Casares (; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fan ...

(1914–1999) *

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known bo ...

(1899–1986) *

Sergio Chejfec Sergio Chejfec (28 November 1956 – 2 April 2022) was an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. Chejfec published eighteen books, including novels, essays, short stories, and a poetry collection. From 1990 to 2005 he lived ...

(born 1956) *

Julio Cortázar Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...

(1914–1984) *

Esteban Echeverría José Esteban Antonio Echeverría (2 September 1805 – 19 January 1851) was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and liberal activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only throu ...

(1805–1851) *

Juana Manuela Gorriti Juana Manuela Gorriti (July 15, 1818 – November 6, 1892) was an Argentine writer with extensive political and literary links to Bolivia and Peru. She held the position of First Lady of Bolivia from 1848 to 1855. With the publication of ''La ...

(1818–1892) * José Hernández (1834–1886) * Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) *

Leopoldo Lugones Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 – 18 February 1938) was an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, professor, translator, biographer, philologist, theologian, diplomat, politician and journalist. His poetic ...

(1874–1938) * Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1984) *

Ricardo Piglia Ricardo Piglia (November 24, 1941 in Adrogué, Argentina – January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public. Biography Born in Adrogué, Piglia ...

(1941–2017) *

Manuel Puig Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990), commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are '' La traición de Rita Hayworth'' (''Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'', 1968), ''Boquitas pint ...

(1932–1990) *

Ernesto Sabato Ernesto Sabato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary w ...

(1911–2011) *

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the second President of Argentina. His writing s ...

(1811–1888) * Ana Maria Shua (born 1951) *

Alfonsina Storni Alfonsina Storni (22 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was an Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period. Early life Storni was born on May 29, 1892 in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland. Her parents were Alfonso Storni and Paola Martignoni, w ...

(1892–1938) *

Patricio Sturlese Patricio Sturlese (born October 23, 1973 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian writer. Sturlese is a student of theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an a ...

(born 1973) * Héctor Tizón (1929–2012) *

Luisa Valenzuela Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She may be bes ...

(born 1938)

Bolivia

Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (13 March 1931 – 17 July 1980) was a noted writer, dramatist, journalist, social commentator, university professor, and socialist political leader from Bolivia. In 1964 Marcelo won the ''PEN/Faulkner Award for Fictio ...

(1931–1980)

Chile

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as ''The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

(born 1942) *

Eduardo Anguita Eduardo Anguita Cuéllar (Yerbas Buenas, Linares November 1914 - Santiago de Chile August 12, 1992) was a Chilean poet, who was awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1988. Life Eduardo Anguita was raised in San Bernardo, bef ...

(1914–1992) *

Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' (''The Savage Detectives' ...

(1953–2003) *

José Baroja José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(born 1983) *

María Luisa Bombal María Luisa Bombal Anthes (; Viña del Mar, 8 June 1910 – 6 May 1980) was a Chilean novelist and poet. Her work incorporates erotic, surrealist, and feminist themes. She was a recipient of the Santiago Municipal Literature Award. Biogra ...

(1910–1980) *

José Donoso José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United ...

(1924–1996) *

Ariel Dorfman Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American ...

(born 1942) *

Jorge Edwards Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Piñera presidency. Life and career Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile. Du ...

(born 1931) *

Diamela Eltit Diamela Eltit in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature. Life Diamela Eltit graduated from college from Universidad Católica de Chile and pursued graduate stu ...

(born 1949) * Alberto Fuguet (born 1964) * Gustavo Gac-Artigas (born 1944) * Olga Grau (born 1945) *

Vicente Huidobro Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (; January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary m ...

(1893–1948) *

Enrique Lihn Enrique Lihn Carrasco (3 September 1929 – 10 July 1988) was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram (1932–2008). They had one daughter, the actress Andr ...

(1929–1988) * Sergio Missana (born 1968) *

Gabriela Mistral Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Lite ...

(1889–1957) *

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

(1904–1973) * Gonzalo Rojas (1916–2011) * Manuel Rojas (1896–1973) *

Antonio Skármeta Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Lit ...

(born 1940) *

Luis Sepúlveda Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (October 4, 1949 – April 16, 2020) was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the ...

(1949–2020) *

Marcela Serrano Marcela Serrano (born 1951) is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, ''Para que no me olvides'', won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, ''Nosotras que nos queremos tanto,'' won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for wom ...

(born 1951)

Colombia

Andrés Caicedo Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela (29 September 1951 – 4 March 1977) was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life. Despite his premature death, his works are considered to be some of the most original produce ...

(1951–1977) *

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one ...

(1927–2014) *

Jorge Isaacs Jorge Isaacs Ferrer (April 1, 1837 – April 17, 1895) was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, '' María'', became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish-language literature. Biography His f ...

(1837–1895) *

Álvaro Mutis Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character ...

(1923–2013) *

Rafael Pombo José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo (November 7, 1833 – May 5, 1912) was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of Ame ...

(1833–1912) *

José Eustasio Rivera José Eustasio Rivera Salas (February 19, 1888 – December 1, 1928) was a Colombian lawyer and author primarily known for his national epic ''The Vortex''. Early life José Eustasio Rivera was born on February 19, 1888 in Aguas Calientes, a ha ...

(1888–1928) *

Fernando Soto Aparicio Fernando Soto Aparicio (October 1, 1933 – May 2, 2016) was a Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter. He was born in Socha, in the Department of Boyacá. Fernando Soto Aparicio spent his childhood in ...

(1933–2016) *

Fernando Vallejo Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007. Biography Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in l ...

(born 1942) *

Samael Aun Weor Samael Aun Weor ( he, סמאל און ואור; March 6, 1917 – December 24, 1977), born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez, was a spiritual teacher and author of over sixty books of esoteric spirituality. He taught and formed groups under the ...

(1917–1977) *

Héctor Abad Faciolince Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958) is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling nove ...

(born 1958) *

Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal (born 31 October 1945) is a Colombian writer, and politician. He attended the University of Valle and was the runner-up for a Premio Nadal in 1971 for ''Dabeiba''. He was awarded a List of Guggenheim Fellowships awa ...

(born 1945) * Gonzalo Arango Arias (1931–1976) *

Porfirio Barba-Jacob Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer. Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora B ...

(1883–1942) *

Tomás Carrasquilla Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo (1858 – 1940) was a Colombian writer who lived in the Antioquia region. He dedicated himself to very simple jobs: tailor, secretary of a judge, storekeeper in a mine, and worker at the Ministry of Public ...

(1858–1940) * Germán Castro Caycedo (1940–2021) *

Manuel Mejía Vallejo Manuel Mejía Vallejo (23 April 1923 – 23 July 1998) was a Colombian writer and journalist. The specialist Luís Carlos Molina says that Mejía represents the Andean aspect of the contemporary Colombian narrative, characterized by a world ...

(1923–1998) * Jairo Aníbal Niño (1941–2010) * Laura Restrepo (born 1950) * Olga Elena Mattei (born 1933) *

(1888–1928) * Daniel Samper Pizano (born 1945) *

José Asunción Silva José Asunción Silva (27 November 1865 in Bogotá – 23 May 1896 in Bogotá) was a Colombian poet. He is considered one of the founders of Latin American Modernismo. Life Born to a wealthy and educated Bogotá family, Asunción Silva led ...

(1865–1896) *

José María Vargas Vila José María de la Concepción Apolinar Vargas Vila Bonilla (June 23, 1860 – May 23, 1933), commonly referred to as José María Vargas Vila, was a Colombian writer and public intellectual. Vargas Vila was an autodidact, who, from an earl ...

(1860–1933) * Albalucía Angel (born 1939) * Magdalena León de Leal (born 1939) *

Fanny Buitrago Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian fiction writer and playwright best known for her novel ''Señora de la miel''. She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1943. Publications Her best-known book is ''Señora de la miel'' (''Senora Honeycomb'' or ''Mrs ...

(born 1943) * Jorge Franco (born 1962)

Costa Rica

* Manuel Argüello Mora (1834–1902) * Alfonso Chase (born 1945) *

Fabián Dobles Fabián Dobles Rodríguez (January 17, 1918 – March 22, 1997) was a Costa Rican writer and left-wing political activist. An author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays, he earned international recognition as an author dealing with ...

(1918–1997) *

Quince Duncan Quince Duncan was born in 1940 in San José, Costa Rica. He is regarded as Costa Rica's first Afro-Caribbean writer in the Spanish language. His works typically concern the Afro-caribbean population living on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, part ...

(born 1940) *

Carlos Luis Fallas Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja (January 21, 1909 – May 7, 1966), also known as Calufa (from the initial syllables of his first, middle and last name), was a Costa Rican author and communist political activist. Born in Alajuela to a single mother, F ...

(1909–1966) * Carlos Gagini (1865–1925) * Joaquín García Monge (1881–1958) * Manuel González Zeledón ("Magón") (1864–1936) * Max Jiménez (1900–1947) * Tatiana Lobo (born 1939) *

Carmen Lyra Carmen Lyra (January 15, 1887 – May 14, 1949) was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born María Isabel Carvajal Quesada. She was a teacher and founder of the country's first Montessori school. She was a co-founder ...

(1888–1949) *

José Marín Cañas José Marín Cañas (1904-1980) was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1904. His parents were Spanish, and he was educated in both Costa Rica and Spain. He worked in various occupations, most importantly journalism, which included his doing radio br ...

(1904–1981) *

Carmen Naranjo Carmen Naranjo Coto (January 30, 1928 – January 4, 2012) was a Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist. She was a recipient of the . Life Naranjo was born in Cartago, the capital city of the Cartago Province. She received her primary education ...

(1928–2012) *

Julieta Pinto Julieta Pinto (31 July 1921 – 22 December 2022) was a Costa Rican educator and writer. She was a recipient of the . Early life and schooling Pinto was born in San José, Costa Rica, on 31 July 1921, but spent most of her youth on a farm in San ...

(1921–2022) * Emilia Prieto Tugores (1902–1986) *

José León Sánchez José León Sánchez Alvarado (19 April 1929 – 15 November 2022)Rodrigo Soto (born 1962)

Cuba

* Brígida Agüero y Agüero (1837–1866) *

Reinaldo Arenas Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a ...

(1943–1990) *

Miguel Barnet --> Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to: Places * Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands * São Miguel (disa ...

(born 1940) *

Guillermo Cabrera Infante Guillermo Cabrera Infante (; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of th ...

(1929–2005) *

Alejo Carpentier Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (, ; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French an ...

(1904–1980) *

Daína Chaviano Daína Chaviano () (born 19 February 1957, Havana)Profile
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(born 1957) *

Enrique Cirules Enrique Cirules (1938 – 18 December 2016) was a Cuban writer and essayist. He was born in Nuevitas, Camagüey Province. Biography Among his best known works are ''Conversation with the last American'' (1973), a non-fiction novel about the establi ...

(1938–2016) * Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (1847–1938) *

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23, 1814 – February 1, 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, now Camagüey, she lived in Cuba until she was 22. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where s ...

(1814–1873) *

Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 17 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.

(1902–1989) *

José Lezama Lima José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel ''Paradiso'' is one of ...

(1910–1976) *

Dulce María Loynaz Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz (Havana, Cuba; 10 December 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Cuban poet, and is considered one of the principal figures of Cuban literature. She was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992. She earned her Doctorate i ...

(1902–1997) *

José Martí José Julián Martí Pérez (; January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the libera ...

(1853–1895) *

Leonardo Padura Fuentes Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. , he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often refe ...

(born 1955) * Gonzalo de Quesada (1496/1506 or 1509–1579) *

Ernesto Juan Castellanos Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * Ernesto (novel), ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** Ernesto (film), ''Ernesto'' (film), ...

(born 1963) *

Severo Sarduy Severo Sarduy (February 25, 1937 – June 8, 1993) was a Cubans, Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art. Some of his works deal explicitly with male homosexuality and transvestism. Biography Born in a working-class ...

(1937–1993) *

Zoé Valdés Zoé Valdés (born May 2, 1959 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the ''Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona'', but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worke ...

(born 1959)

Dominican Republic

Fabio Fiallo Fabio Fiallo, in full Fabio Federico Fiallo Cabral (February 3, 1866 – August 29, 1942) was a Dominican writer, poet, politician, and diplomat, primarily known for his modernist short stories and verses, as well as being an outspoken anti-imper ...

(1866–1942) *

Pedro Henríquez Ureña Pedro Henríquez Ureña (June 29, 1884 – May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic. Biography Early works Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings. He ...

(1884–1946) * Juan Bosch (1909–2001) *

Joaquín Balaguer Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer. He was President of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962 ...

(1909–2002) *

Pedro Mir Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent po ...

(1913–2000) * Alfredo Fernández Simó (1915–1991) *

Junot Díaz Junot Díaz (; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was fiction editor at ''Boston Review''. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedo ...

(born 1970)

Ecuador

Abdón Ubidia Abdón Ubidia (1944) is an Ecuadorian writer who is considered one of the most representative and relevant voices of modern Ecuadorian literature. He was the 2012 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by Presiden ...

, (born 1944), novelist *

Adalberto Ortiz Adalberto Ortiz - born Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (February 9, 1914 – February 1, 2003) was a novelist, poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas, a province of Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur'' ...

(1914–2003), novelist, poet and diplomat *

Agustin Cueva Agustín Cueva Dávila ( Ibarra, September 23, 1937 – Quito, May 1, 1992) was an Ecuadorian writer, literary critic, and Marxist sociologist. He had great interest in dependency theory and was at the center of many political debates both wi ...

(1937–1992), literary critic and sociologist * Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (1915–1992), poet, novelist and journalist * Alfonso Rumazo González (1903–2002), historian, essayist and literary critic * Alfredo Gangotena – poet who wrote in French and Spanish *

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (October 12, 1908 – May 1, 1993) — born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco — was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American nove ...

(1908–1993), novelist, essayist, journalist, historian * Alicia Yánez Cossío (born 1928), poet, novelist and journalist * Ángel Felicísimo Rojas (1909–2003), novelist, and poet *

Arturo Borja Arturo Borja Pérez (1892 – November 13, 1912) was an Ecuadorian poet who was part of a group known as the " Generación decapitada" (Decapitated Generation). He was the first in the group to excel as a modernist poet. He did not produce a lot ...

(1892–1912), poet * Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (1894–1961), poet, translator * Benjamín Carrión Mora (1897–1979), writer *

Benjamín Urrutia Benjamin Urrutia (born January 24, 1950) is an author and scholar. With Guy Davenport, Urrutia edited ''The Logia of Yeshua'', which collected what Urrutia and Davenport consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of Development of the N ...

(born 1950), author and scholar * Carlos Altamirano Sánchez – poet and journalist * Carlos Eduardo Jaramillo Castillo – poet * Carmen Acevedo Vega – poet and writer *

Dolores Veintimilla Dolores Veintimilla de Galindo (1829 in Quito – May 23, 1857 in Cuenca, Ecuador, Cuenca) was an Ecuadorian poet. Her most well-known poem is "Quejas" (Complaints). Veintemilla left few works, which were published posthumously in a collection ...

(1829–1857), poet * Edmundo Ribadeneira Meneses (1920–2004), writer and university professor * Eduardo Varas – novelist and journalist * Efraín Jara Idrovo – poet and writer *

Enrique Gil Gilbert Enrique Gil Gilbert (July 8, 1912 – February 21, 1973) was an Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, poet, and a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of Ecuador. Gil Gilbert was born and died in the coastal city of Guayaquil, and was the young ...

(1912–1973), novelist, journalist, poet *

Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño (August 2, 1889 – December 7, 1927) was an Ecuadorian poet and a member of the " Generación decapitada" (The Decapitated Generation). Noboa y Caamaño came from a wealthy family in Guayaquil, and was always plagued b ...

– poet *

Eugenio Espejo Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (Royal Audiencia of Quito, February 21, 1747 – December 28, 1795) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of mestizo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and write ...

(1747–1795), writer and lawyer * Euler Granda (1935–2018), poet, novelist * Fanny Carrión de Fierro – poet, essayist and professor * Filoteo Samaniego – novelist, poet, historian, translator, and diplomat * Francisco Tobar Garcia – poet, novelist, and playwright * Gabriel Cevallos García – writer and historian * Galo René Pérez – biographer, poet, and essayist * Horacio Hidrovo Peñaherrera – poet and writer * Horacio Hidrovo Velásquez – poet, novelist and short story writer *

Hugo Mayo Miguel Augusto Egas Miranda, better known by his pen name Hugo Mayo (November 24, 1895 in Manta – April 5, 1988 in Guayaquil , motto = Por Guayaquil Independiente en, For Independent Guayaquil , image_map ...

(1895–1988), poet *

Humberto Fierro Humberto Fierro (1890 – August 23, 1929) was an Ecuadorian poet who was part of a group known as the " Generación decapitada" (Decapitated Generation). The group is called "decapitada", or decapitated, because all its members committed suicide ...

– poet * Isacovici Salomon (1924–1998), writer * Iván Carvajal (born 1948), poet, philosopher, writer * Jaime Galarza Zavala – poet, journalist and politician * Jenny Estrada – Writer and journalist *

Joaquín Gallegos Lara Joaquín Gallegos Lara (April 9, 1909 – November 16, 1947) was an Ecuadorian social realist novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. Biography Joaquín Gallegos Lara was born in Guayaquil in 1909, the son of Emma Lara Calderon and Joa ...

– novelist and short story writer *

Jorge Carrera Andrade Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978. During his life and after his death he has been recognized with Jorge Luis Borges, Vice ...

– poet * Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906–1978), novelist * Jorge Luis Cáceres (born 1982), editor, anthologist * Jorge Núñez Sánchez (1947–2020), writer, historian and professor *

Jorge Pérez Concha Jorge Pérez Concha (June 5, 1908 in Guayaquil – April 1, 1995 in Guayaquil) was an Ecuadorian historian, biographer, writer, and diplomat. He wrote biographies of Eloy Alfaro, Luis Vargas Torres, and his uncle Carlos Concha Torres, among othe ...

(1908–1995), historian, biographer, writer and diplomat * José de la Cuadra – novelist and short story writer *

José Joaquín de Olmedo José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri (20 March 1780 – 19 February 1847) was President of Ecuador from 6 March 1845 to 8 December 1845. A patriot and poet, he was the son of the Spanish Captain Don Miguel de Olmedo y Troyano and the Guayaquilean An ...

– poet *

José Martínez Queirolo José Martínez Queirolo (March 22, 1931 – October 8, 2008) was an Ecuadorian playwright and narrator. He was the 2001 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by President Gustavo Noboa. Martínez Queirolo, k ...

– playwright * Fray José María Vargas O.P. (1902–1988), writer and historian * José Rumazo González – poet * Juan Bautista Aguirre y Carbo (1725–1786), poet * Juan Larrea Holguín (1927–2006), writer and lawyer *

Juan León Mera Juan León Mera Martínez (28 June 1832 – 13 December 1894) was an Ecuadorian essayist, novelist, politician and painter. His best-known works are the Ecuadorian National Hymn and the novel '' Cumandá'' (1879). Additionally, in his politic ...

(1832–1894), essayist, novelist, politician *

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Juan Manuel Rodríguez (31 December 1771 – 1847) was a Salvadoran revolutionary against Spain and later president of the State of El Salvador within the Federal Republic of Central America (briefly in 1824). He was born in San Salvador to ...

(born 1945), professor and author *

Juan Montalvo Juan María Montalvo y Fiallos (13 April 1832 in Ambato – 17 January 1889 in Paris) was an Ecuadorian author and essayist. Biography His grandfather, José Santos Montalvo, born in Andalucía, migrated to América and after some years w ...

(1832–1889), author and essayist * Julio Pazos Barrera (born 1944), poet *

Karina Galvez Karina Galvez (born July 7, 1964) is an Ecuadorian American poet. Biography She was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, July 7, 1964. She lived in California, United States during 1985–2012. Since 2012, she resided in Ecuador, but flew extensively th ...

(born 1964), poet * Luis Alberto Costales – poet, philosopher, writer, professor and politician *

Luis Enrique Fierro Luis Enrique Fierro (born November 14, 1936 in Tulcán) is an Ecuadorian medic and poet. He was awarded the Ecuadorian National Prize of Culture "Premio Eugenio Espejo The ''Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo'' ("Eugenio Espejo National Award") is t ...

(born 1936), poet and medical doctor *

Medardo Ángel Silva Medardo Ángel Silva Rodas (June 8, 1898 at Guayaquil – June 10, 1919 at Guayaquil) was an Ecuadorian poet and a member of the '' Generación decapitada''. The "Decapitated Generation" was a group of four young Ecuadorian poets in the first deca ...

– poet * Miguel Donoso Pareja – poet, novelist, and short-story writer *

Nela Martínez Nela Martínez Espinosa (November 24, 1912 – July 30, 2004) was an Ecuadorian communist, political militant, activist, and writer. For four days in 1944 she was the leader of Ecuador. Biography Nela Martinez was born in Cañar, Ecuador and ...

(1912–2004), activist, and writer *

Nelson Estupiñán Bass Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1912–2002) was an Ecuadorian writer. He was born in Súa, a city in the predominantly Afro-Ecuadorian province of Esmeraldas in Ecuador. He was first homeschooled by his mother before traveling to the capital city of ...

(1912–2002), poet * Nicolás Kingman Riofrío – journalist, writer and politician * Numa Pompilio Llona (1832–1907), poet, journalist, educator, diplomat, and philosopher * Octavio Cordero Palacios – playwright, poet, mathematician, lawyer, professor and inventor *

Pedro Jorge Vera Pedro Jorge Vera (1914 in Guayaquil – 1999) was an Ecuadorian writer and Communist Party of Ecuador politician. He contributed to several newspapers and magazines of controversial character " La Calle", with the writer Alejandro Carrión, ...

(1914–1999), writer and politician * Rafael Díaz Ycaza – poet, novelist, and short story writer * Raquel Verdesoto – poet, biographer, teacher, feminist activist * Raúl Andrade Moscoso (1905–1983), journalist and playwright * Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel (born 1939), biographer * Sonia Manzano Vela (born 1947), writer and pianist * Ulises Estrella (1939–2014), poet, film expert * Víctor Manuel Rendón (1859–1940), poet, novelist, playwright, biographer, translator

Ecuatorial Guinea

* María Nsué Angüe (1945–2017 ) * Juan Balboa Boneke (1938–2014) *

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 6 November 1966) is an Equatoguinean author and activist. His parents were from the remote island of Annobón, off the West African coast. He is at the center of the feature award-winning documentary ''The Writer Fr ...

(born 1966) *

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo Donato Francisco Ndongo-Bidyogo Makina (born 12 December 1950), known as Donato Ndongo, is an Equatoguinean journalist and writer who was one of the most prominent members of Hispanic African movement within the Spanish-speaking world. Early l ...

(born 1950) *

Raquel Ilombé Raquel del Pozo Epita (1938–1992), known as Raquel Ilombé, was an Equatorial Guinean poet and author, who wrote in Spanish language, Spanish. Background and early life She was born in Spanish Guinea (today Equatorial Guinea), on the island ...

(¿1938?–1992) *

Justo Bolekia Boleká Justo Bolekia Boleká (born December 13, 1954 in Santiago de Baney, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea) is an Equatorial Guinean scholar and writer of Bubi descent. Life and career He attended college at Complutense University of Madrid obtaining a Docto ...

* Leoncio Evita Enoy (1929–1996)

El Salvador

Claribel Alegría Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central Am ...

(1924–2018) * Arturo Ambrogi (1874–1936) *

Manlio Argueta Manlio Argueta (born 24 November 1935) is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist. Although he is primarily a poet, he is best known in the English speaking world for his novel '' One Day of Life''.

(born 1935) * Mario Bencastro (born 1949) *

Horacio Castellanos Moya Horacio Castellanos Moya (born 1957) is a Salvadoran novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Life and work Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to a Honduran mother and a Salvadoran father. His family moved to El Salva ...

(born 1957) * Carlos Castro (born 1944) * José Roberto Cea *

Roque Dalton Roque is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing cr ...

(1935–1975) * Jacinta Escudos *

Alfredo Espino Alfredo Espino (1900—August 1928) was a poet from El Salvador. Born in Ahuachapán, his only book is ''Jícaras Tristes'' (Sad Vessels), a collection of 96 poems. It is one of the most published books of poetry in El Salvador. Espino died ...

(1900–1928) * Francisco Gavidia (1863–1955) *

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (16 September 1908 - 10 November 1979) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist. His poetic work marked a landmark in Salvadoran poetic development. A rebellious, individualistic poet, Rivas incorporated in his poetry the ...

(1908–1979) * Claudia Hernández González * David J. Guzmán *

Claudia Lars Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20, 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974. She was the daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon and Carmen Vega Zelayandía.Plumlee, A. ...

(1899–1974) * Francisco Machón Vilanova *

Alberto Masferrer Vicente Alberto Masferrer Mónico, known as Alberto Masferrer, was a Salvadoran essayist, philosopher, fiction writer, and journalist, best known for the development of the philosophy of 'vitalismo'. He was born in Alegría, Usulután formerl ...

Salarrué Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (October 22, 1899 – November 27, 1975), known as Salarrué (a derivation of his surnames), was a Salvadorian writer, poet, and painter. Born in Sonsonate to a well-off family, Salarrué trained a ...

(1899–1975)

Guatemala

* Arturo Arias *

Miguel Ángel Asturias Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (; October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream We ...

(1899–1974) *

Flavio Herrera Flavio Herrera (nicknamed ''El Tigre'') (February 18, 1895 – January 31, 1968) was a Guatemalan writer and diplomat. His works are formal reading material in public schools and private schools in Guatemala. Biography Born in Guatemala City ...

(1895–1968) *

Mario Monteforte Toledo Mario Monteforte Toledo (September 15, 1911 – September 4, 2003) was a Guatemalan writer, dramatist, and politician. Born in Guatemala City, he played important roles in the governments of both Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz, includ ...

(1911–2003) *

Augusto Monterroso Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (December 21, 1921 - February 7, 2003) was a Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories. He is considered an important figure in the Latin Americ ...

(1921–2003) * Máximo Soto Hall (1871–1944)

Honduras

Ramón Amaya Amador Ramón Amaya Amador (April 29, 1916 – November 24, 1966) was a Honduran journalist, author, and political activist, known for his most recognizable works "''Prision verde''" and "''Cipotes"''. Biography Amaya was born in Olanchito in the depa ...

(1916–1966) *

Roberto Sosa Roberto Sosa may refer to: *Roberto Sosa (poet) (1930–2011), Honduran author and poet *Roberto Sosa (Argentine footballer) (born 1975), Argentine footballer *Roberto Sosa (Uruguayan footballer) (born 1935) *Roberto Sosa (actor) See also *Sosa (su ...

(1930–2011) *

Eduardo Bähr Eduardo Bähr (born 1940 in Tela, Honduras) is a Honduran writer, scriptwriter and actor. In 1996, along with Mexico's Octavio Paz, Spain's Rafael Alberti, and Nicaragua's Ernesto Cardenal, he was one of 50 intellectuals awarded the Gabriela Mi ...

(born 1940)

Mexico

Mariano Azuela Mariano Azuela González (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the fi ...

(1873–1952) *

Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gend ...

(1925–1974) *

Salvador Díaz Mirón Salvador Díaz Mirón (December 14, 1853 – June 12, 1928) was a Mexican poet. He was born in the port city of Veracruz. His early verse, written in a passionate, romantic style, was influenced by Lord Byron and Victor Hugo. His later ver ...

(1853–1928) *

Juana Inés de la Cruz ''Doña'' Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695) was a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, and Hieronymite nun. Her contributi ...

(1648/1651–1695) *

Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo (January 26, 1950, Monterrey – August 24, 2013, Monterrey) was a writer, playwright, historian and archivist, whose work concentrated on preserving and promoting the culture of northeastern Mexico. Several of his books ...

(1950–2013) *

Laura Esquivel Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés (born September 30, 1950) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and politician, serving in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party from 2015 to 2018. Her first n ...

(born 1950) *

Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), ''The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christophe ...

(1928–2012) *

Elena Garro Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. ...

(1894–1971) *

Eve Gil Eve Gil (born 1968) is a Mexican writer and journalist from Hermosillo Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city located in the center of the northwestern Mexican stat ...

(born 1968) * Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (1859–1895) *

Jorge Ibargüengoitia Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (January 22, 1928 – November 27, 1983) was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular and critical success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: ''The Dead Girls'', ''Tw ...

(1928–1983) * Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986) *

Germán List Arzubide Germán List Arzubide (31 May 1898 – 17 October or 19 October 1998) was a Mexican poet and revolutionary. Born in Puebla, he was an active participant in the Revolution, fighting alongside Emiliano Zapata as well as extolling him and other re ...

(1898–1998) *

Ramón López Velarde Ramón López Velarde (June 15, 1888 – June 19, 1921) was a Mexican poet. His work was a reaction against French-influenced modernismo which, as an expression of a purely Mexican subject matter and emotional experience, is unique. He achieved ...

(1888–1921) *

Manuel Maples Arce Manuel Maples Arce (May 1, 1900 - June 26, 1981) was a Mexican poet, writer, art critic, lawyer and diplomat, especially known as the founder of the Stridentism movement. The leader of the first Mexican avant-garde movement After the first Stri ...

(1898–1981) *

Ángeles Mastretta Ángeles Mastretta (born October 9, 1949, in Puebla) is a post-boom Mexican author, journalist, actress, and film producer. She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and politica ...

(born 1949) *

Amado Nervo Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor a ...

(1870–1919) *

Salvador Novo Salvador Novo López (30 July 1904 – 13 January 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular percept ...

(1904–1974) *

Fernando del Paso Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He ...

(1935–2018) *

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...

(1914–1998) *

Carlos Pellicer Carlos Pellicer Cámara (10 January 1897 – 16 February 1977) was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was active in the promotion of Mexican art, pictures, and literature. An enthusiastic traveler, his work is filled with ...

(1897–1977) *

Sergio Pitol Sergio Pitol Deméneghi (18 March 1933 – 12 April 2018) was a Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005, he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. Early life Born in Puebla, Me ...

(1933–2018) *

Elena Poniatowska Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska () is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on th ...

(born 1932) * Ricardo Raphael (born 1968) *

Alfonso Reyes Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of th ...

(1889–1959) *

Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo ( ; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel ''Pedro Páramo'', and th ...

(1917–1986) *

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic '' Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Alberti ...

(born 1951) *

Jaime Sabines Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his w ...

(1926–1999) * Carlos Tello Díaz (born 1962) *

Arqueles Vela Arqueles Vela ( Guatemala/Tapachula 1899 – Mexico City 1977) was a Mexican writer, journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and ...

(1899–1977) *

Xavier Villaurrutia Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called ''Autos profanos'', compiled in the work ''Poesía y teatro c ...

(1903–1950) *

Gabriel Zaid Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual. Early life He was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, on January 24, 1934, son of Palestinian immigrants, is a Mexican thinker (poet, essayist, economist, businessman, engineer, a ...

(born 1934)

Nicaragua

Gioconda Belli Gioconda Belli (born December 9, 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguans, Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet. Early life Gioconda Belli grew up in a wealthy family in Managua. Her father is Humberto Belli Zapata and her brother is Humbe ...

(born 1948) *

Omar Cabezas Omar Cabezas Lacayo (born 1950 in León, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan author, revolutionary and politician. He was a commander in the guerrilla war against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and prominent Sandinista party member. He is perhaps most famous o ...

(born 1950) *

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

(1925–2020) *

Alfonso Cortés Alfonso Cortés (9 December 1893 – 3 February 1969) was a Nicaraguan poet. He is often referred to as the second-most-important Nicaraguan poet, with Rubén Darío, who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (moder ...

(1893–1969) *

Pablo Antonio Cuadra Pablo Antonio Cuadra (November 4, 1912 – January 2, 2002) was a Nicaraguan essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of the most famous poets of Nicaragua. Early life and career Cuadra was born on November 4, 1912 ...

(1912–2002) *

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as ''modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

(1867–1916) *

Salomón de la Selva Salomón de la Selva (March 20, 1893 – February 5, 1959) was a Nicaraguan poet and honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Language. Biography Salomón de la Selva was born on March 20, 1893, in León, Nicaragua, son of Salomón Selva Glenton ...

(1893–1959) *

José Coronel Urtecho José Coronel Urtecho (28 February 1906 – 19 March 1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian. He has been described as "the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth centu ...

(1906–1994) *

Sergio Ramírez Sergio Ramírez Mercado (; born 5 August 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of t ...

(born 1942)

Panama

* Rosa María Britton (1936–2019) *

Gloria Guardia Gloria Guardia (1940 – 13 May 2019) was a Panamanian novelist, essayist and journalist whose works received recognition in Latin America, Europe, Australia and Japan. She was a Fellow at the Panamanian Academy of Letters and Associate Fellow at ...

(1940–2019) *

Darío Herrera Darío Herrera (1870-1914) was a Panamanian Modernismo poet and diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the Euro ...

(1870–1914) *

Ricardo Miró Ricardo Miró Denis (November 5, 1883 in Panama City, Panama – March 2, 1940), was a Panamanian writer and is considered to be the most noteworthy poet of this country. He traveled to Bogotá at the age of fifteen to study painting, but was forc ...

(1883–1940) *

María Olimpia de Obaldía María Olimpia de Obaldía (9 September 1891 – 14 August 1985), was a Panamanian poet. Biography The daughter of Manuel del Rosario Miranda and Felipa Rovira, she was born in Dolega, Chiriquí. She studied at the Escuela Normal de Institutoras ...

(1891–1985) * Elsie Alvarado de Ricord (1928–2005) * José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971)

Paraguay

Alcibiades González Delvalle Alcibiades González Delvalle (born 20 July 1936) is a Paraguayan journalist, playwright, essayist, and novelist. He won the Paraguayan National Prize for Literature in 2013 with his novel ''Un viento negro''. In 2016 he was named a member of the ...

(born 1936) *

Augusto Roa Bastos Augusto Roa Bastos (13 June 1917 – 26 April 2005) was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor. ...

(1917–2005)

Peru

Ciro Alegría Ciro Alegría Bazán (November 4, 1909 – February 17, 1967) was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist. Biography Born in Huamachuco District, he exposed the problems of the Native Peruvians while learning about their way of life. ...

José María Arguedas José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of Spanish descent, fluent in the Native Quechua language, gained by living in two Quechua househ ...

(1911–1969) *

César Atahualpa Rodríguez César "Atahualpa" Rodriguez Olcay (August 26, 1889 – March 12, 1972) was a Peruvian poet; a self taught, cultural writer. Born César Augusto Rodríguez Olcay in Arequipa, he took the pseudonym, "Atahualpa", after the Arequipan poet Percy G ...

(1889–1972) *

Alfredo Bryce Echenique Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born February 19, 1939) is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written numerous books and short stories. Early days Bryce was born to a Peruvian family of upper class, related to the Scottish-Peruvian businessman John ...

(born 1939) *

Fernando Fernán Gómez Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007) better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director and member of the Royal Spanish Academy for seven years. He was born ...

(1921–2007) *

María Emma Mannarelli María Emma Mannarelli Cavagnari (born October 11, 1954) is a Peruvian feminist writer, historian, and professor. She is the founder and coordinator of the Gender Studies Program at the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM), where she also se ...

(born 1954) *

Clorinda Matto de Turner Clorinda Matto de Turner (11 November 1852 in Cusco – 25 October 1909) was a Peruvian writer who lived during the early years of Latin American independence. Her own independence inspired women throughout the region as her writings sparked ...

(1853–1909) *

Isabel Sabogal Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (Lima, October 14, 1958) is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and Astrology, astrologer. Biography Her parents were José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (Peruv ...

(born 1958) *

César Vallejo César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators ...

(1892–1938) *

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

(born 1936) *

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (12 April 1539 – 23 April 1616), born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, where he l ...

(1539–1616) **See the complete list at

List of Peruvian writers This is a list of Peruvian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. * Martín Adán (1908–1985), poet * Ciro Alegría (1909–1967), indigenist novelist * Marie Arana (born 1949), Peruvian-Amer ...

Philippines

Jesús Balmori Jesús Balmori y González-Mondragón (January 10, 1887 – May 23, 1948) was a Filipino Spanish language journalist, playwright, and poet. Biography Jesús Balmori y González-Mondragón was born in Ermita, Manila, on 10 January 1887. He studi ...

(1887–1948) * Edmundo Farolán * Adelina Gurrea Monasterio (1896–1971) *

Graciano López Jaena Graciano López y Jaena (; December 18, 1856 – January 20, 1896), commonly known as Graciano López Jaena, was a Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero who is well known for his newspaper, ''La Solidaridad''. Philippine h ...

(1856–1896) *

Apolinario Mabini Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (, July 23, 1864 – May 13, 1903) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first ...

(1864–1903) *

José Palma José Palma y Velásquez (: June 3, 1876 February 12, 1903) was a Filipino poet and soldier. He was on the staff of ''La independencia'' at the time he wrote "Filipinas", a patriotic poem in Spanish. It was published for the first time in the ...

(1876–1903) *

Marcelo H. del Pilar Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán (; ; August 30, 1850July 4, 1896), commonly known as Marcelo H. del Pilar and also known by his pen name Pláridel,.''Filipinos in History: Volume II'', National Historical Institute, 1990, p. 101 was a ...

(1850–1896) *

Guillermo Gómez Rivera Guillermo Gómez y Rivera (; born 12 September 1936) is a Spanish-Filipino multilingual author, historian, educator and linguistic scholar whose lifelong work has been devoted to the advocay to preserve Spanish culture as an "important element" of ...

(born 1936) *

Claro M. Recto Claro Mayo Recto Jr. (born Claro Recto y Mayo; February 8, 1890 – October 2, 1960) was a Filipino politician, jurist, and poet. He is remembered for his nationalism, for "the impact of his patriotic convictions on modern political though ...

(1890–1960) *

José Rizal José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered the national he ...

(1861–1896) *

Antonio Abad Antonio Abad y Mercado (May 10, 1894 – April 20, 1970), was a prominent Filipino poet, fictionist, playwright and essayist. Personal life Antonio Abad y Mercado was born in Barili, Cebu, under the Captaincy General of the Philippines, on 10 ...

(1894–1970)

Puerto Rico

Julia de Burgos Julia de Burgos García (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet. As an advocate of Puerto Rican independence, she served as Secretary General of the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican National ...

, poet *

Giannina Braschi Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include ''Empire of Dreams'' (1988), ''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011). Braschi writes cross-genr ...

, author of "El imperio de los suenos," and "Yo-Yo Boing!" * Rosario Ferré, author of "Sweet Diamond Dust" *

René Marqués René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright. Early years Marqués was born, raised and educated in the city of Arecibo. He developed an interest in writing at a young age and was p ...

, author of "La Carretera" *

Luis Rafael Sánchez Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez, a.k.a. "Wico" Sánchez (November 17, 1936) is a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, and short-story author who is widely considered one of the island's most outstanding contemporary playwrights. Possibly his best known play ...

, author of "Macho Camacho's Beat"

Spain

* Joan Baptista Aguilar (died 1714) *

Rafael Alberti Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called ''Silver Age'' of Spanish Literature, and he won numerou ...

(1902–1999) *Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833–1891) *Leopoldo Alas, Clarín (1852–1901) *Ignacio Aldecoa (1925–1969) *Josefina Aldecoa (1926–2011) *Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984) *Mateo Alemán (1547–1614) *Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990) *Núria Añó (born 1973) *Joaquín Arderíus (1885–1969) *Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) *Arturo Barea (1897–1957) *Pío Baroja (1872–1956) *Carlos Be (born 1974) *Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) *Gonzalo de Berceo (c. 1190 – c. 1264) *Joseph Blanco White, José María Blanco-White (1775–1841) *Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) *Juan Boscán (1490–1542) *José Cadalso (1741–1782) *Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) *Gabriela Bustelo (born 1962) *Francisco Fernández Carvajal (born 1938) *Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885) *Camilo José Cela (1916–2002) *Luis Cernuda (1902–1963) *Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) *Gutierre de Cetina (1520–1557) *Álvaro Cunqueiro (1911–1981) *San Juan de la Cruz (1542–1591) *Miguel Delibes (1920–2010) *Agustín Díaz Pacheco (born 1953) *Gerardo Diego (1896–1987) *Juan del Encina (1469–1533) *Vicente Espinel (1550–1624) *José de Espronceda (1808–1842) *Benito Jerónimo Feijoo e Montenegro, Fray Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676–1764) *León Felipe (1884–1968) *Gloria Fuertes (1917–1998) *Espido Freire (born 1974) *Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) *Juan García Rodenas (born 1976) *José María Gironella (1917–2003) *Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) *José Agustín Goytisolo, José Goytisolo (1928–1999) *Juan Goytisolo (1931–2017) *Luis Goytisolo (born 1935) *Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) *Antonio de Guevara, Fray Antonio de Guevara (1480–1545) *Jorge Guillén (1893–1984) *Miguel Hernández (1910–1942) *José Hierro (1922–2002) *Francisco Javier Illán Vivas (born 1958) *Tomás de Iriarte (1750–1791) *Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) *Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda, Gaspar de Bracamonte (c. 1595 – 1676) *Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744–1811) *Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837) *Fray Luis de León (1527 – c. 1591) *Fernando S. Llobera (born 1965) *Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) *Mariló López Garrido (born 1963) *Antonio Machado (1875–1936) *Manuel Machado (poet), Manuel Machado (1874–1947) *Jorge Manrique (1440–1479) *Javier Marías (born 1951) *Julián Marías (1914–2005) *Juan Marsé (1933–2020) *Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000) *Luis Martín-Santos (1924–1964) *José Martínez Ruiz, Azorín (1863–1967) *Ana María Matute (1925–2014) *Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (born 1943) *Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (1856–1912) *Gabriel Miró (1879–1930) *Agustín Moreto y Cavana (1618–1661) *Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956) *Marysa Navarro (born 1934) *Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) *Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) *Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951) *Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1680) *Vicente Risco (1884–1963) *Fernando de Rojas (1465–1541) *Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla (1607–1660) *Luis Rosales (1910–1992) *Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita (c. 1283 – c. 1350) *Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581–1639) *Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020) *Pedro Salinas (1892–1951) *José Luis Sampedro (1917–2013) *Marta Segarra (born 1963) *Tirso de Molina (1571–1648) *Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910–1999) *Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) *Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Juan Valera (1824–1905) *Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936) *Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) *Garcilaso de la Vega (poet), Garcilaso de la Vega (1503–1536) *Esteban Manuel de Villegas (1589–1669) *María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1661) *José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893) *Alfonso Vallejo (1943–2021) *Carlos G. Vallés (1925–2020) *Agustín García Calvo (1926–2012) *Lydia Zimmermann

United States

*Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996) *Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) *

(born 1953) *

(1914–1953)

Uruguay

*Eduardo Acevedo Díaz *José Enrique Rodó *Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) *Bartolomé Hidalgo *Jorge Majfud (born 1969) *Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) *Orosmán Moratorio *Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994) *Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) *Carlos Vaz Ferreira *Idea Vilariño (1920–2009)

Venezuela

*Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969) *Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001)