List of Cuban writers

A

• Brígida Agüero, poet
• Mirta Aguirre, poet, novelist, and journalist
• Magaly Alabau, poet
• Dora Alonso, author and journalist
• Reinaldo Arenas, openly gay poet, novelist, and playwright, author of ''Before Night Falls''

B

• Emilio Bacardi Moreau, poet, writer, playwright, and patriot
• Joaquín Badajoz, poet and writer
• Gastón Baquero, poet and writer
• Miguel Barnet, anthropologist and testimonialist
• Antonio Benítez-Rojo, author and critic
• Pedro Luis Boitel, poet and dissident
• Mariano Brull, postmodern poet

C

• Lydia Cabrera, anthropologist and poet
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante, novelist, author of Tres tristes tigres, Cervantes Prize winner
• Onelio Jorge Cardoso, screenwriter and short fiction writer
• Alejo Carpentier, novelist, author of El reino de este mundo, Cervantes Prize winner
• Julián del Casal, 19th-century poet
• Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba
• Daniel Chavarria, Uruguyan-born author
• Daína Chaviano, novelist and short-story writer
• Enrique Cirules, novelist and essayist
• Domitila García de Coronado, writer, journalist, editor, professor

D

• Edmundo Desnoes, novelist, author of Memorias del Subdesarrollo
• Jesús Díaz, novelist, filmmaker, and intellectual, founder of the influential cultural magazine Encuentro
• Tania Díaz Castro, journalist and poet

E

• Darío Espina Pérez, writer, founder and president of La Academia Poética de Miami

F

• Samuel Feijóo, author
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, poet, essayist, and literary critic
• Norberto Fuentes, author and journalist

G

• Michael John Garcés, playwright and director.
• Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, novelist, playwright, and poet, author of Sab and Baltasar
• Justo González, author and historian
• Jorge Enrique González Pacheco, poet and cultural entrepreneur
• Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez "dirty realist" novelist, poet, and painter

H

• José María Heredia y Heredia, poet
• Georgina Herrera, poet

L

• Carilda Oliver Labra, poet
• José Lezama Lima, novelist and poet, author of Paradiso
• Eduardo del Llano
• Mary Stanley Low, British-Cuban political activist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher

M

• Jorge Mañach, writer
• Juan Francisco Manzano, author and poet
• Dulce María Loynaz, poet, Cervantes Prize winner
• José Martí, poet, journalist, critic, translator, and patriot
• Calixto Martínez, journalist and political prisoner
• Rubén Martínez Villena, writer
• Domingo del Monte, author and literary critic
• Nancy Morejón, Afro-Cuban poet
• Dolan Mor
• Manuel Maria Mustelier, writer and teacher

O

• Fernando Ortiz, author and essayist
• Lisandro Otero, novelist and journalist

P

• Heberto Padilla, poet
• Leonardo Padura Fuentes, novelist and journalist
• Ricardo Pau-Llosa, poet
• Regino Pedroso, poet
• Gustavo Pérez Firmat, poet, memoirist, literary critic
• Jorge Armando Pérez, writer, theologian, fiction
• Virgilio Piñera, author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
• Carlos Pintado, poet

R

• Félix Ramos y Duarte, educator, textbook writer and lexicographer
• José Ignacio Rivero, exile journalist
• Raúl Rivero, dissident poet and journalist
• Antonio Rodríguez Salvador, poet, fiction writer, dramatist and essayist

S

• Pedro Pérez Sarduy, poet, novelist and journalist
• Severo Sarduy, neobaroque poet
• Ana María Simo, playwright, essayist and lesbian activist

U

• Úrsula Céspedes, poet

V

• Zoé Valdés, novelist
• Enrique José Varona, author and journalist
• Cirilo Villaverde, novelist, author of Cecilia Valdés
• Cintio Vitier, poet, essayist and novelist

Z

• Juan Clemente Zenea, author and poet
• Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic