List of Central American writers
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Costa Rica
- Carmen NaranjoCarmen NaranjoCarmen Naranjo Coto , is a Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist.She was born in Cartago, the capital city of the Cartago Province. She received her primary education there at the Escuela República de Perú and her secondary at the Colegio Superior de Señoritas...
- Alfonso ChaseAlfonso ChaseAlfonso Chase is a contemporary Costa Rican author. He was educated in Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States, and he began his career in poetry in 1965...
- Joaquín GutiérrezJoaquín GutiérrezJoaquín Gutiérrez is an emblematic figure of Costa Rican literature, being one of the most internationally known of its authors. He was a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua, and won the Premio Nacional de Cultura, the top literary award in his country...
- Carlos Luis FallasCarlos Luis FallasCarlos Luis Fallas Sibaja , also known as Calufa , was a Costa Rican author and political activist....
- Carmen LyraCarmen LyraCarmen Lyra was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal...
- Fernando Contreras CastroFernando Contreras CastroFernando Contreras Castro, is a Costa Rican writer who was born in the province of Alajuela, on January 4, 1963. He is an author of new classics in the national literature...
- Jorge DebravoJorge DebravoJorge Debravo was a prominent poet from Costa Rica.Debravo was born in Guayabo, on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. He was the oldest of five children where he spent his early years helping his father, Joaquín Bravo Ramírez, manage a small milpa...
El Salvador
- Manlio ArguetaManlio ArguetaManlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist born in 1935. Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet, he is known in the English speaking world for his book One Day of Life.- Life :...
- Juan José CañasJuan José CañasJuan José Cañas is perhaps most famous for the writing of Himno Nacional De El Salvador with Italian-born composer Juan Aberle....
- Horacio Castellanos MoyaHoracio Castellanos Moya-Life and work:Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. His family moved to El Salvador while he was only a few years old. He lived in San Salvador until 1979, and since has resided in Toronto, San José, Mexico City and Frankfurt. He has also worked as a journalist.Castellanos...
- Roque DaltonRoque DaltonRoque Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets...
- Jacinta EscudosJacinta EscudosJacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalistic chronicles that have been published in such Central American daily outlets as La Nación , La Prensa Gráfica , and El Nuevo Diario...
- Alfredo EspinoAlfredo EspinoAlfredo Espino was a poet from El Salvador. Born in Ahuachapán, his only book is Jícaras Tristes , a collection of 96 poems. It is one of the most published books of poetry in El Salvador. Espino died in San Salvador....
- Francisco GavidiaFrancisco GavidiaFrancisco Gavidia was a Salvadoran writer, educator and journalist. His poetry evolved from romanticism to a reflective direction and conceptual character...
- Claudia LarsClaudia LarsClaudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20, 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974...
Honduras
- Ramón Amaya AmadorRamón Amaya Amador-Biography:Amaya was born in Olanchito in the department of Yoro. After being educated in La Ceiba he worked on the banana plantations along the Northern Caribbean coast of Honduras. He published his first work in 1939. He became a journalist in 1941 for El Atlántico , a La Ceiba newspaper. In...
- Roberto Sosa (poet)
- Eduardo BährEduardo BährEduardo Bähr is a Honduran writer, scriptwriter and actor.In 1996, along with Mexico's Octavio Paz, Spain's Rafael Alberti, and Nicaragua's Ernesto Cardenal, he was one of 50 intellectuals awarded the Gabriela Mistral Medal by the government of Chile...
- Javier Abril EspinozaJavier Abril EspinozaJavier Abril Espinoza , Honduran writer based in Switzerland. He writes for the newspaper The Herald of Honduras and collaborates with various literary magazines of Latin America....
Nicaragua
- Claribel AlegríaClaribel AlegríaClara Isabel Alegría Vides is a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She writes under the pseudonym Claribel Alegría.-Early life:...
- Emilio Álvarez LejarzaEmilio Álvarez LejarzaEmilio was a Nicaraguan government official and jurist.-Biography:In 1884, Emilio Álvarez Lejarza was born on 25 October in Granada, Nicaragua Central America....
- Emilio Álvarez MontalvánEmilio Álvarez MontalvánEmilio is a Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and a former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua.-Biography:In 1919, Emilio Álvarez Montalván was born on 31 July in Managua, Nicaragua. In 1946 , Álvarez received a Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the "School of Medicine, University of Chile", cum laude...
- Gioconda BelliGioconda BelliGioconda Belli is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet.-Early life:Gioconda Belli, of Northern Italian descent, was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975...
- Tomás Borge
- Omar CabezasOmar CabezasOmar Cabezas Lacayo is a Nicaraguan author, revolutionary and politician. He was a commander in the guerrilla war against Somoza, and prominent Sandinista party member...
- Ernesto CardenalErnesto CardenalReverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left. From 1979 to 1987 he served as Nicaragua's first culture minister. He is also famous as a poet...
- Blanca CastellónBlanca CastellonBlanca Castellon is a celebrated Nicaraguan poet. She is the author of Ama del espíritu , Flotaciones and Orilla opuesta . She is also the winner of Instituto de Estudios Modernistas of poetry in Valencia, Spain...
- José Coronel UrtechoJosé Coronel UrtechoJosé Coronel Urtecho was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian. He has been described as "the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth century"...
- Alfonso CortésAlfonso CortésAlfonso Cortés was a Nicaraguan poet. He is often referred to as the most important poet after Rubén Darío. Before his death, he often said he was "less important than Darío, but more profound".-Early life:...
- Arturo CruzArturo Cruz, Jr.Arturo José Cruz Sequeira is the son of Nicaraguan politician Arturo Cruz. He became involved in the exile politics of the Contra rebels opposing the Sandinista government in the 1980s, and more recently served as the Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States for two years from 2007 to 2009...
- Pablo Antonio CuadraPablo Antonio CuadraPablo Antonio Cuadra was a Nicaraguan essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of the most famous poets of Nicaragua.-Early life and career:...
- Rubén DaríoRubén DaríoFélix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
- Salomón Ibarra MayorgaSalomón Ibarra MayorgaSalomón Ibarra Mayorga was a Nicaraguan poet, political thinker, and the lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem. His poetry is simple, expressive, musical in quality, and patriotic...
- Erwin KrügerErwin KrügerErwin Krüger Urroz was a Nicaraguan folklore poet and singer.He was born in León, Nicaragua to a German father and Nicaraguan mother.-References:...
- Francisco MayorgaFrancisco MayorgaFrancisco Mayorga is a Nicaraguan economist and writer who specializes in international finance and economic development....
- Azarías H. PallaisAzarias PallaisAzarías de Jesús Pallais or Azarías H. Pallais is regarded as one of Nicaragua's greatest poets. He was born in León. Pallais's father was a medical doctor and his mother was a niece of liberal statesman Maximo Jerez...
- Joaquín PasosJoaquín PasosJoaquín Pasos was a Nicaraguan poet, narrator, and essayist. He was one of the leading figures of the national Vanguardia literary movement...
- Horacio PeñaHoracio Peña (Author)Horacio Peña is a professor, writer, and poet.Currently an instructor at Huston-Tillotson College and the Seminary of the Southwest—both in Austin, Texas, he is often recognized as the most important Nicaraguan American poet....
- Sergio RamírezSergio RamírezSergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963...
- Daisy ZamoraDaisy ZamoraDaisy Zamora is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Latin American poetry. Her work is known for its uncompromising voice and wide-ranging subject matter that dwells on the details of daily life while encompassing human rights, politics, revolution, feminist issues, art, history and...