Writers
Alberto Blest Gana- Angel Cruchaga Santa Maria (1893–1964) was a Chilean writer. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1948.
- Fernando Alegría – writer
- Isabel Allende – novelist (The House of Spirits)
- Roberto Ampuero – novelist (Cayetano Brulé series)
- Roberto Bolaño – novelist (The Savage Detectives)
- Francisco Coloane – (Tierra del fuego)
- Juan Guzman Cruchaga (1895–1979) was a Chilean poet and diplomat. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1962. Was of Basque descent.
- José Donoso – (Coronation)
- Ariel Dorfman – novelist, playwright (Death and the Maiden), academic, essayist, journalist and human rights activist
- Jorge Edwards – 1999 Cervantes Prize winner
- Alberto Fuguet – novelist, short story writer Mala Onda, Las películas de mi vida, and filmmaker Se Arrienda
- Alberto Blest Gana – novelist (Martín Rivas)
- Cristián Huneeus – writer
- Enrique Lafourcade – novelist
- Hernán Rivera Letelier – novelist (Santa María de las Flores Negras, La Reina Isabel Cantaba Rancheras), poet and writer of short stories.
- Carmen Marai – novelist El Alba de la Mandrágora ("The Dawn of the Mandrake"), poet and writer of short stories.
- Antonio Skármeta – author of Ardiente Paciencia ("Burning Patience") which inspired the movie Il Postino (The Postman) about poet Pablo Neruda.
- Luis Sepúlveda – novelist
- Mercedes Valdivieso – writer
- Sergio Vodanović – playwright
- Vicente Huidobro – father of the "Creationism" movement in Paris
- Enrique Lihn- poet, playwright, and novelist
- Gabriela Mistral – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
- Pablo Neruda – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
- Nicanor Parra – self-proclaimed anti-poet
- Gonzalo Rojas – 2004 Cervantes Prize winner
- Pablo de Rokha- Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965
- Óscar Hahn – Chilean writer and poet
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