List of Chileans - Writers

Writers

• 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