List of Peruvian writers
This is a list of Peruvian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
- Martín Adán, poet
- Katya Adaui, novelist
- Daniel Alarcón, novelist
- Ciro Alegría, indigenist novelist
- Marie Arana, Peruvian-American novelist, biographer, journalist
- José María Arguedas, indigenist novelist and poet
- Federico Barreto, poet
- Jaime Bayly, novelist
- Mario Bellatin
- Michael Bentine, Anglo-Peruvian comedian
- Alfredo Bryce Echenique, novelist
- Guillermo Carnero Hoke, writer and journalist
- Carlos Castaneda, literary anthropologist
- Gamaliel Churata, socialist essayist and journalist
- Renato Cisneros
- Rafael Dumett, playwright and novelist
- José María Eguren, poet
- Jorge Eduardo Eielson, poet
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the first mestizo chronicler
- Manuel González Prada, modernista poet
- Eduardo González Viaña, short story writer and novelist
- Javier Heraud, poet and guerrillero
- Rodolfo Hinostroza, influential poet, writer, novelist and essayist
- Luis Jochamowitz, journalist and biographer
- José Carlos Mariátegui, socialist essayist and journalist
- Jose Luis Mejia, poet, novelist
- Gloria Macher Peruvian Canadian writer
- María Emma Mannarelli, feminist writer, historian, professor
- Clorinda Matto de Turner, novelist
- Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, historian
- Angélica Palma, writer, journalist and biographer
- Clemente Palma, writer of fantastic and horror fiction
- Ricardo Palma, writer
- Manuela Villarán de Plasencia, writer and poet
- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, indigenous chronicler
- Santiago Roncagliolo, writer, scriptwriter, translator and journalist
- Julio Ramón Ribeyro, short story writer
- Isabel Sabogal, novelist, poet and translator
- Sebastián Salazar Bondy, essayist and poet
- Claudia Salazar Jiménez writer, editor and academic
- José Santos Chocano, poet
- Manuel Scorza, novelist and poet
- Iván Thays, writer
- Carlos Thorne Boas, novelist, writer and lawyer
- Álvaro Torres-Calderón, poet
- Abraham Valdelomar
- Blanca Varela, poet
- Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist of the Latin American Boom
- Virginia Vargas, sociologist
- Cesar Vallejo, influential poet, writer, journalist
- José Watanabe, poet
- Carlos Yushimito, writer
- Gunter Silva Passuni, writer
- Esteban Pavletich Trujillo, poet, novelist, essayist