Julio Cortazar (1914 – 1984) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and universal literature.
Froylán Turcios (1875 – 1943) was a Honduran writer, journalist and politician. He is considered one of the most important Honduran intellectuals of the early 20th century.
Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez (b. 1964) is a Mexican writer. He has written several books across different disciplines, including pedagogy and family relationships.
Sandra Cisneros (b.1954) is a Mexican-American writer. She was awarded a National Medal of the Arts in 2015.
Laura Restrepo (b. 1950) is a Colombian author, columnist, and novelist.
Junot Díaz (b. 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review.
Héctor Abad Faciolince (b. 1958) is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature.
Paulo Coelho de Souza (b. 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, best known for his novel The Alchemist.
Gabriel García Márquez (1927 - 2014) was a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 – 1616) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (1953 - 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.
Juan Rulfo, in full Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (1917 - 1986), was a Mexican writer who is considered one of the finest novelists and short-story creators in 20th-century Latin America.
Isabel Allende (b. 1942) is a Chilean writer.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz (b. 1954) is an American poet, novelist, and writer of children's books.
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), was a Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.
Rosa María Britton (b. 1936) is a Panamanian novelist.
Francisco Jiménez (b. 1943) is a Mexican-American writer, and a professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Octavio Solis (born 1958) is an American playwright and director.
Ricardo Miró (b. 1883-1940) was a Panamanian writer and is considered to be the most noteworthy poet of this country.
Mariana Enríquez (b. 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
José Saramago (1922-2010) was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pam Muñoz Ryan (b. 1951) is an American writer for children and young adults, particularly in the multicultural genre.
Rubén Darío (1867-1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century.
Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist.
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) was a Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture, and at the same time drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
