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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“Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.”
—Diana Trilling (b. 1905)
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
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