List of Cuban Writers

A list of Cuban writers, including novelists, poets, and critics:

• Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), openly gay poet, novelist, and playwright, author of Before Night Falls (Antes que anochezca)
• Miguel Barnet, anthropologist and testimonialist
• Antonio Benítez-Rojo (born 1931), author and critic
• Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–1972), poet and dissident
• Mariano Brull (1891–1956), postmodern poet
• Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist and poet
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), novelist, author of Tres tristes tigres. Cervantes Prize winner.
• Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), novelist, author of El reino de este mundo. Cervantes Prize winner.
• H. G. Carrillo (born 1960), author, professor
• Julián del Casal, 19th century poet
• Ernesto Juan Castellanos (born 1963), English translator, journalist, and author of several books about The Beatles
• Daniel Chavarria, Uruguyan-born author
• Carlos Pintado, author and poet
• Daína Chaviano, novelist and short-story writer
• Enrique Cirules (born 1938), novelist and essayist, author of El Imperio de La Habana
• Edmundo Desnoes, novelist, author of Memorias del Subdesarrollo
• Jesús Díaz (1941–2002), novelist, filmmaker, and intellectual, founder of the influential cultural magazine Encuentro
• Norberto Fuentes (born 1943), author and journalist
• Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), novelist, playwright, and poet, author of Sab (1842) and Baltasar (1858)
• Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Afro-Cuban poet
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950) "dirty realist" novelist, poet, and painter
• José María Heredia y Heredia (1803–1839), poet
• Carilda Oliver Labra (born 1924), poet.
• José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), novelist and poet, author of Paradiso
• Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), poet. Cervantes Prize winner.
• José Martí (1853–1895), poet, journalist, critic, translator, and patriot
• Calixto Martínez, journalist and political prisoner
• Nancy Morejón (born 1944), Afro-Cuban poet
• Lisandro Otero (1932–2008), novelist and journalist.
• Heberto Padilla (1932–2000), poet
• Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955), novelist and journalist
• Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979), author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
• Carlos Pintado (born 1974), poet
• José Ignacio Rivero (born 1920), exile journalist
• Raúl Rivero (born 1945), dissident poet and journalist
• Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (born 1956) Novelist, poet, critic, journalist, essayist. Alfaguara Novel Prize 2008
• Severo Sarduy (1937–1993), neobaroque poet
• Ana María Simo, playwright, essayist and lesbian activist.
• Zoé Valdés (born 1959), novelist
• Cirilo Villaverde, novelist, author of Cecilia Valdés (1882)
• Cintio Vitier (1921–2009), poet, essayist and novelist.
• Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic
• Roberto Zurbano (born 1967), essayist, critic