A list of Nicaraguan writers, including novelists, poets, authors, essayists, journalists, critics, and narrators among others.

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* Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), poet, she received the

Neustadt International Prize for Literature The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, ''World Literature Today''. It is considered one of the more prestigious inte ...

in 2006. * Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer * Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919–2014), political writer * June Beer (1935-1986) Afro-Nicaraguan poet and artist. * Gioconda Belli (1948), poet *

Yolanda Blanco Yolanda Blanco (born in 1954) is a Nicaraguan poet. Life Yolanda Blanco was born in Managua, Nicaragua. She attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, in León, between 1970 and 1971. While studying at the university, she org ...

(1954), poet and translator. *

Tomás Borge Tomás Borge Martínez (13 August 1930 – 30 April 2012), often spelled as Thomas Borge in United States newspapers) was a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Nicaragua during one of th ...

(1930–2012), writer, poet, and essayist. * Omar Cabezas (1950), writer *

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), poet *

Blanca Castellón Blanca Castellon (born 1958 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan poet. She is the author of ''Ama del espíritu'' (poetry, 1995), ''Flotaciones'' (poetry, 1998) and ''Orilla opuesta'' (poetry, 2000). She is also the winner of Instituto de Estudios Moderni ...

(1958), poet *

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),

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ...

essayist An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal ...

, critic,

narrator Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the ...

, playwright, and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. *

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), poet *

Arturo Cruz Arturo José Cruz Porras (December 18, 1923 – July 9, 2013), sometimes called Arturo Cruz Sr. to distinguish him from his son, was a Nicaraguan banker and technocrat. He became prominent in politics during the Sandinista (FSLN) era. After repeate ...

(1954), writer * Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002), poet *

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), poet, referred to as ''The Father of

Modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

''. *

Omar D'León Omar D'León (1929 – August 26, 2022) was a Nicaraguan painter and poet. D'León was born Omar D'León Lacayo y Estrada in 1929 in Managua, Nicaragua. D'León studied nine years at the '' Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes'' in Nicaragua under ...

(1929), poet *

Karly Gaitán Morales Karly Gaitán Morales (Managua, Nicaragua, March 25, 1980) is a Nicaraguan writer, journalist, and film historian. Early years and education She was born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua. She graduated from the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) i ...

(born 1980), Nicaraguan film historian, and writer. * Ana Ilce Gómez Ortega (1944–2017), poet *

Salomón Ibarra Mayorga Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (September 8, 1887 – October 2, 1985) was a Nicaraguan poet, political thinker, and the lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem. His poetry is simple, expressive, musical in quality, and patrio ...

(1887–1985), poet and lyricist of " Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan

national anthem A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. American, Central Asian, and Europea ...

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Erwin Krüger Erwin Krüger Urroz (November 2, 1915 in León, Nicaragua – July 28, 1973 in Managua) was a Nicaraguan folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. T ...

(1915–1973), poet and composer. *

Rigoberto López Pérez Rigoberto López Pérez (May 13, 1929 – September 21, 1956) was a Nicaraguan poet, artist and composer. He assassinated Anastasio Somoza García, the longtime dictator of Nicaragua. On September 21, 1981, 25 years after his death, the Sandin ...

(1929–1956), poet and writer. *

Francisco Mayorga Francisco Mayorga (Born in 1949 in León, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan economist and writer who specializes in international finance and economic development. For twenty years he taught managerial economics and corporate finance at INCAE, the lead ...

(1949), writer * Camilo Mejía (1975), author * Tony Meléndez (1962), writer * Rosario Murillo (1951), poet *

Humberto Ortega General Humberto Ortega Saavedra (born January 10, 1947 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan military leader, often self-called leading Latin American revolutionary strategist, and published writer. He was Minister of Defense between the victory of the ...

(1947), author * Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet * Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet * Horacio Peña (1946), writer and poet *

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 ...

(1942), writer * Aura Rostand (1899–1957), poet * Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918–2002), poet *

Arlen Siu Arlen Siu Bermúdez (15 July 1955 – 1 August 1975), was a singer-songwriter, essayist and Sandinista revolutionary, who became one of the first casualties during the insurrection against Somoza. Her death at an early age, made her a local cele ...

(1955-1975), essayist * Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic * Daisy Zamora (1950), poet

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