Dominican Republic literature has a long and interesting history.

Authors from the Dominican Republic

* Aída Cartagena Portalatín * Alfonso Rodríguez * Alfredo Fernández Simó * Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo * Angela Hernández Núñez *

Angie Cruz Angie Cruz (born February 24, 1972) is an American novelist and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches in the M.F.A. program. Early life and education Cruz was born on February 24, 1972, in Washington Heights, ...

Arambilet Ángel Luis Arambilet Álvarez (born September 16, 1957), generally known professionally as simply Arambilet, is a novelist, poet, screenwriter, painter, graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graph ...

Arturo Féliz-Camilo Arturo Féliz-Camilo is a Dominican author, chef, academic, and lawyer. He has published about a variety of topics, but is most well known for his cookbooks, usually about Dominican food and its origins, traditions, and culture. Early life Arturo ...

* Blas Jiménez * Camila Henríquez Ureña * Carmen Quidiello * César Nicolás Penson *

Cristino Gómez Cristino Alberto Gómez Luciano (born 1987) is a Dominican poet, agronomist, and professor. Author of ''Ha vuelto el agua'', ''Yo dije el amor'', and other books. Early life Cristino Gómez grew up in Fondo Grande, a community in the municipalit ...

* Domingo Moreno Jimenes * Fabio Fiallo * Fernando Cabrera *

Francisco Gregorio Billini Francisco Gregorio Billini Aristi (May 25, 1844 – November 28, 1898 in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican writer, pedagogue, and politician. Supported by the former president Ulises Heureaux, he won the national elections in 1884, and served as the ...

* Frank Báez *

Irvin Alberti Irving Alberti is an actor and humourist from the Dominican Republic. In 2012, he was elected by Luz García’s ''Noche de Luz'' programme as a "Summer’s Hot Body". Career ;Radio *“Botando el Golpe” *“Parando el Trote” ;Telev ...

Jael Uribe Jael Uribe Elizabeth Medina is best known as Jael Uribe (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 10, 1975) is a writer, storyteller, poet and painter creator of the female poetic foundation named Women Poets International. She is considered ...

Jaime Colson Jaime Antonio Gumercindo González Colson (13 January 190120 November 1975) was a Dominican modernist painter, writer, and playwright born in Tubagua, Puerto Plata in 1901. He is remembered as one of the most important Dominican artists of the ...

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 196 ...

* José Alcántara Almánzar *

José Gabriel García José Gabriel García (January 13, 1834 - January 19, 1910) was a Dominican Republic, Dominican army officer, historian, politician, journalist and publisher. He is regarded as a cultural pioneer as well as the "Father of Dominican History". He was ...

* Juan Bosch *

Juan Delancer Juan Delancer is a Dominican writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director. Career Delancer got his start as a writer, researcher, journalist, documentarian and television producer in the Dominican Republic throughout the 1980s and 1990s be ...

Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza III (24 February 1928 – 31 December 2006) was a Dominican lawyer, diplomat and poet. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country lo ...

Juan Isidro Moreno Juan Isidro Moreno Espinal (Mata del Jobo, Sabaneta; 6 August 1924 – Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the c ...

Juan Pablo Duarte Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of ...

Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels ''How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), '' In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo!'' ...

* Julio Vega Batlle *

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 Freed ...

León Félix Batista León Félix Batista (born 1964) Dominican author and poet. On September 11, 2003, he conducted an ''atentado poético'' ("poetic attack") in New York City in remembrance of the WTC attacks by flying a plane over New York He represented the Do ...

* Leopoldo Minaya *

Manuel del Cabral Manuel del Cabral (7 March 1907, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic – 14 May 1999, in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez, an influential senator during the "Era of ...

Marcio Veloz Maggiolo Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (13 August 1936 – 10 April 2021) was a Dominican writer, archaeologist and anthropologist. Biography A prolific author of both academic and literary themes, his original-Spanish language works have been translated ...

* María Isabel Soldevila *

Maria Montez María África Gracia Vidal (6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951), known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume ...

* Mateo Morrison * Miguel D. Mena * Norberto James Rawlings * Pedro Francisco Bonó *

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 ...

* Rámon Marrero Aristy *

Raquel Cepeda Raquel Cepeda is an American journalist, critic, film-maker, and autobiographer of Dominican descent. The editor of ''Russell Simmons' OneWorld'' magazine between 2001 and 2004, Cepeda was also the editor of the award-winning anthology "And It Don ...

* Rei Berroa *

René Fortunato René Antonio Fortunato (born February 1, 1958) is a Dominican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Fortunato is best known for his historical documentaries on Dominican government and politics. He began his career as a producer in 1985, w ...

* Rosa Silverio *

Salomé Ureña Salomé Ureña Díaz de Henríquez (October 21, 1850 - March 6, 1897) was a Dominican poet and teacher, being one of the central figures of 19th-century lyrical poetry and advocator for women’s education in the Dominican Republic, influenced by ...

Sócrates Nolasco Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the Dominican Republic. He was born in what is now Enriquillo in Barahona Province on March 20, 1884, and died in Santo Domingo on July 2, 1980.http://fundacioncorripio.org/productos_detalle ...

* Tulio Manuel Cestero * Edgar Smith

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''Antología Poética de Domingo Moreno Jimenes'' by Manuel Mora Serrano
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''Cachón'' by Miguel Angel Monclús
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''Cartas a Evelina'' by Francisco Moscoso Puello
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''Carnavá'' by Angel Hernández Acosta
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''Bani, o Engracia y Antoñita'' by Francisco Gregorio Billini
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''Cosas Añejas'' by Cesar Nicolás Penson
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''Over'' by Rámon Marrero Aristy
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''La Fantasma de Higüey'' by Francisco Javier Angulo Guridi
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''Apuntes sobre la Poesía Popular y la Poesía Negra en las Antillas'' by Tomás Rafael Hernández Franco
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