List of Nicaraguan writers

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

List

Gioconda Belli, designated amongst the 100 most important poets during the 20th century.

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.

• Claribel Alegría (1924), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006.
• Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer
• Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919), political writer
• Gioconda Belli (1948), poet
• Yolanda Blanco (1954), poet and translator.
• Tomás Borge (1930), writer, poet, and essayist.
• Omar Cabezas (1950), writer
• Ernesto Cardenal (1925), 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.
• Omar D'León (1929), poet
• Karly Gaitán Morales (born 1980), Nicaraguan film historian, and writer.
• 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
• Daniel Ortega (1945), 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
• Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918), poet
• Arlen Siu (died 1972), essayist
• Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
• Daisy Zamora (1950), poet

See also