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

Chile

Pablo Neruda

Colombia

Jorge Isaacs wrote María, one of the most influential 19th-century novels in Spanish

Ecuador

Peru

Venezuela

Andrés Eloy Blanco

Brazil

Caribbean

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Puerto Rico

Central America

Costa Rica

Roque Dalton, El Salvador's best known poet

El Salvador

Guatemala

Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobel prize winner

Honduras

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.

Panama

Mexico

Carlos Fuentes, one of the most internationally popular Mexican writers

Rioplatenses

Argentina

Julio Cortázar, one of the leaders of the Latin American boom

Paraguay

Uruguay

Mario Benedetti, a highly popular Uruguayan author and poet

See also

References

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