List of Nicaraguans - Literature

Literature

• Claribel Alegría (1924), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006.
• Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer
• Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919), political writer
• Eugenio Batres Garcia (1941) noted newscaster and journalist, writer, author and poet.
• Gioconda Belli (1948), poet
• Yolanda Blanco (1954), poet and translator.
• Tomás Borge (1930), writer, poet, and essayist.
• Omar Cabezas (1950), writer
• Ernesto Cardenal (1925), poet
• Blanca Castellón (1958), poet
• Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, co-founder, director and editor of El Nuevo Diario.
• José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994), poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright and historian.
• Alfonso Cortés (1893–1969), poet
• Arturo Cruz (1954), writer
• Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002), poet
• Rubén Darío (1867–1916), poet, referred to as The Father of Modernism
• Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887–1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem
• Erwin Krüger (1915–1973), poet and composer.
• Danilo López (1954), poet
• Rigoberto López Pérez (1929–1936), poet and writer
• Francisco Mayorga (1949), writer
• Christianne Meneses Jacobs (1971), writer, editor, and publisher
• Rosario Murillo (1951), poet
• Daniel Ortega (1945), poet
• Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet
• Rafael Pallais (1952), writer
• Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet
• Horacio Peña (1946), writer and poet
• Sergio Ramírez (1942), writer
• Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918), poet
• Arlen Siu (?-1972), essayist
• Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
• Daisy Zamora (1950), poet