List of Peruvian writers

This is a list of Peruvian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.


 * Martín Adán (1908–1985), poet
 * Katya Adaui (born 1977), novelist
 * Ciro Alegría (1909–1967), indigenist novelist
 * Marie Arana (born 1949), Peruvian-American novelist, biographer, journalist
 * José María Arguedas (1911–1969), indigenist novelist and poet
 * Federico Barreto (1862–1929), poet
 * Michael Bentine (1922–1996), Anglo-Peruvian comedian
 * Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born 1939), novelist
 * Guillermo Carnero Hoke (1917–1985), writer and journalist
 * Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998), literary anthropologist
 * Gamaliel Churata (1897–1957), socialist essayist and journalist
 * José María Eguren (1874–1942), poet
 * Jorge Eduardo Eielson (1924–2006), poet
 * Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1539–1616), the first mestizo chronicler
 * Manuel González Prada (1844–1918), modernista poet
 * Eduardo González Viaña (born 1941), short story writer and novelist
 * Javier Heraud (1942–1963), poet and guerrillero
 * Rodolfo Hinostroza (born 1941), influential poet, writer, novelist and essayist
 * Luis Jochamowitz (born 1953), journalist and biographer
 * José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), socialist essayist and journalist
 * Jose Luis Mejia (born 1969), poet, novelist
 * Gloria Macher Peruvian Canadian writer
 * María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), feminist writer, historian, professor
 * Clorinda Matto de Turner (1853–1909), novelist
 * Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy (born 1951), historian
 * Angélica Palma (1878–1935), writer, journalist and biographer
 * Clemente Palma (1872–1946), writer of fantastic and horror fiction
 * Ricardo Palma (1833–1919), writer
 * Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, indigenous chronicler
 * Santiago Roncagliolo (born 1975), writer, scriptwriter, translator and journalist
 * Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994), short story writer
 * Isabel Sabogal (born 1958), novelist, poet and translator
 * Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924–1964), essayist and poet
 * Claudia Salazar Jiménez (born 1976) writer, editor and academic
 * José Santos Chocano (1875–1934), poet
 * Manuel Scorza (1928–1983), novelist and poet
 * Carlos Thorne Boas (born 1923), novelist, writer and lawyer
 * Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), poet
 * Abraham Valdelomar (1888–1919)
 * Blanca Varela (1926–2009), poet
 * Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist of the Latin American Boom
 * Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist
 * Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938), influential poet, writer, journalist
 * José Watanabe (1946–2007), poet
 * Carlos Yushimito (born 1977), writer
 * Gunter Silva Passuni (born 1977), writer
 * Renato Cisneros (born 1976)
 * Daniel Alarcón (born 1977), novelist
 * Mario Bellatin (born 1960)
 * Santiago Roncagliolo (born 1975), novelist
 * Jaime Bayly (born 1965), novelist
 * Iván Thays (born 1968), writer
 * Esteban Pavletich Trujillo (1906–1981), poet, novelist, essayist