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 Daniel Alarcón (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 Jaime Bayly (born 1965), novelist Mario Bellatin (born 1960) 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 (1897–1969), socialist essayist and journalist Renato Cisneros (born 1976) Rafael Dumett (born 1963), playwright and novelist 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 (1941–2016), influential poet, writer, novelist and essayist Luis Jochamowitz (born 1953), journalist and biographer José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), socialist essayist and journalist 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 Manuela Villarán de Plasencia (1840–1888), writer and poet 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 (1924–1965), 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 Iván Thays (born 1968), writer Carlos Thorne Boas (1923–2021), novelist, writer and lawyer Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), poet Abraham Valdelomar (1888–1919) Blanca Varela (1926–2009), poet Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025), 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 Esteban Pavletich Trujillo (1906–1981), poet, novelist, essayist
See also List of Latin American writers List of Peruvian women writers Peruvian literature
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