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 .
Chile
Pablo Neruda
Colombia
Jorge Isaacs wrote María , one of the most influential 19th-century novels in Spanish
Peru
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
José María Arguedas
Cesar Vallejo
Alfredo Bryce
Manuel González Prada
Clorinda Matto de Turner
José Carlos Mariátegui
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Abraham Valdelomar
José María Eguren
Mario Vargas Llosa , Nobel Prize in Literature winner (2010)
Enrique Lopez Albujar
Ricardo Palma
Alonso Cueto (born 1954), novelist
María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), feminist writer
Antonio Cisneros (1942–2012), poet and writer
César Calvo (1926–2009), poet and writer
Gunter Silva Passuni (born 1977), writer
Blanca Varela (1852–1909)
Carlos Yushimito (born 1977), writer
Renato Cisneros (born 1976)
Daniel Alarcón (born 1977), novelist
Mario Bellatin (born 1960)
Santiago Roncagliolo (born 1975), novelist
Ciro Alegría (1909–1967)
Martín Adán (1908–1985), poet
Enrique Verástegui (1950–2018), poet and writer
Manuel Scorza (1928–1983)
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998), writer
Gabriela Wiener (born 1975), writer
Jaime Bayly (born 1965), novelist
Fernando Iwasaki (born 1961)
Iván Thays (born 1968)
Claudia Ulloa (born 1979)
Venezuela
Andrés Eloy Blanco
Costa Rica
Roque Dalton, El Salvador's best known poet
Guatemala
Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobel prize winner
Nicaragua
Ernesto Cardenal is a poet, Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Sandinista Regime.
Karly Gaitán Morales is a Nicaraguan film historian and writer.
Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), poet, received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006
Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer
Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919–2014), political writer
Gioconda Belli (born 1948), poet
Tomás Borge (1930–2012), writer, poet, and essayist
Omar Cabezas (born 1950), writer
Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), poet
Blanca Castellón (born 1958), poet
José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994), poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, and historian
Alfonso Cortés (1893–1969), poet
Arturo Cruz (born 1954), writer
Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002), poet
Rubén Darío (1867–1916), poet, referred to as the "father of Modernism "
Karly Gaitán Morales (born 1980), film historian, and writer.
Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887–1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem
Erwin Krüger (1915–1973), poet and composer
Francisco Mayorga (born 1949), writer
Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born 1971), writer, editor, and publisher
Rosario Murillo (born 1951), poet
Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet
Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet
Horacio Peña (born 1946), writer and poet
Sergio Ramírez (born 1942), writer
Arlen Siu (died 1972), essayist
Julio Valle Castillo (born 1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
Daisy Zamora (born 1950), poet
Carlos Fuentes, one of the most internationally popular Mexican writers
Uruguay
Mario Benedetti, a highly popular Uruguayan author and poet