List of Latin American writers

This is a list of some of the most important writers from Latin America, organized by cultural region and nationality. The focus is on Latin American literature.

Andeans

Bolivia

Colombia

Héctor Abad Faciolince, writer and journalist
Manuel Ancízar, writer and journalist
Gonzalo Arango, poet and novelist
Helena Araújo
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Andrés Caicedo
James Cañón
Tomás Carrasquilla
Germán Castro Caycedo
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize in Literature winner
Adolfo León Gómez, poet
León de Greiff
Magdalena León de Leal, sociologist and writer
Jorge Isaacs
Jaime Manrique, writer and painter
Santiago Martínez Delgado, writer and painter
Álvaro Mutis
Rafael Pombo
Laura Restrepo González
José Eustasio Rivera
Daniel Samper Pizano
José Asunción Silva
Guillermo Valencia
Fernando Vallejo
José María Vargas Vila

Brazil

Caribbean

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Central America

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Manlio Argueta, novelist
Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary
Jacinta Escudos, novelist
Claudia Lars, poet
Salarrué, novelist, poet, painter

Guatemala

Honduras

Óscar Acosta, poet and critic
Ramón Amaya Amador, novelist and journalist
Eduardo Bähr
Augusto Coello
Julio Escoto
Javier Abril Espinoza
Lucila Gamero de Medina
Juan Ramón Molina, poet
Leticia de Oyuela
Roberto Sosa, poet
Juan Pablo Suazo Euceda
Froylán Turcios

Nicaragua

Claribel Alegría, poet, received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006
Emilio Álvarez Lejarza, writer
Emilio Álvarez Montalván, political writer
Gioconda Belli, poet
Tomás Borge, writer, poet, and essayist
Omar Cabezas, writer
Ernesto Cardenal, poet
Blanca Castellón, poet
José Coronel Urtecho, poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, and historian
Alfonso Cortés, poet
Arturo Cruz, writer
Pablo Antonio Cuadra, poet
Rubén Darío, poet, referred to as the "father of Modernism"
Karly Gaitán Morales, film historian, and writer
Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem
Erwin Krüger, poet and composer
Francisco Mayorga, writer
Christianne Meneses Jacobs, writer, editor, and publisher
Rosario Murillo, poet
Azarías H. Pallais, poet
Joaquín Pasos, poet
Horacio Peña, writer and poet
Sergio Ramírez, writer
Arlen Siu, essayist
Julio Valle Castillo, poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
Daisy Zamora, poet

Panama

Rosa María Britton, writer
Gloria Guardia, novelist and essayist
María Olimpia de Obaldía
Ricardo Miró, poet
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer and photographer

Rioplatenses

Paraguay

Uruguay