List of Nicaraguan writers

A list of Nicaraguan writers, including novelists, poets, authors, essayists, journalists, critics, and narrators among others.

List



 * Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006.
 * Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer
 * Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919–2014), political writer
 * June Beer (1935-1986) Afro-Nicaraguan poet and artist.
 * Gioconda Belli (1948), poet
 * Yolanda Blanco (1954), poet and translator.
 * Tomás Borge (1930–2012), writer, poet, and essayist.
 * Omar Cabezas (1950), writer
 * Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), poet
 * Blanca Castellón (1958), poet
 * José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994), poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, and historian.
 * Alfonso Cortés (1893–1969), poet
 * Arturo Cruz (1954), writer
 * Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002), poet
 * Rubén Darío (1867–1916), poet, referred to as The Father of Modernism
 * Carlos Javier Jarquín (1990), poet, journalist and cultural activist
 * Omar D'León (1929), poet
 * Karly Gaitán Morales (born 1980), Nicaraguan film historian, and writer.
 * Ana Ilce Gómez Ortega (1944–2017), poet
 * Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887–1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem.
 * Erwin Krüger (1915–1973), poet and composer.
 * Rigoberto López Pérez (1929–1956), poet and writer.
 * Francisco Mayorga (1949), writer
 * Camilo Mejía (1975), author
 * Tony Meléndez (1962), writer
 * Rosario Murillo (1951), poet
 * Humberto Ortega (1947), author
 * Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet
 * Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet
 * Horacio Peña (1946), writer and poet
 * Sergio Ramírez (1942), writer
 * Aura Rostand (1899–1957), poet
 * Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918–2002), poet
 * Arlen Siu (1955-1975), essayist
 * Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
 * Daisy Zamora (1950), poet