List of Venezuelans - Authors

Authors

• José Antonio de Armas Chitty, Historian, poet, chronicler, essayist, biographer and researcher.
• Rafael Arráiz Lucca, historian and poet.
• Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, poet.
• Francisco Massiani, writer.
• José Balza, writer
• Andrés Bello, humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist.
• Andrés Eloy Blanco, poet
• Eduardo Blanco, novelist and epic poet.
• Manuel Caballero, historian and journalist.
• Salvador Garmendia, novelist, story teller.
• Rafael Cadenas, poet.
• Juan Carlos Chirinos, writer.
• Rómulo Gallegos, writer.
• Freddy O'Rea Lanz, screenwriter.
• Adriano González León, poet and writer.
• Francisco Herrera Luque (1927–1991), psychiatrist, writer, ambassador, professor.
• Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, writer
• Guillermo Meneses (1911–1978) writer, journalist, historian, essayist. National Prize of Literature and National Prize of Journalism.
• Eugenio Montejo (1938–2008), poet.
• Guillermo Morón, historian and writer.
• Moisés Naím, writer, current Editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine.
• Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, novelist, journalist.
• Juan Oropeza, writer.
• Miguel Otero Silva, writer.
• Edgar C. Otálvora, economist, historian, journalist and politician
• Teresa de la Parra, writer.
• Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde, poet.
• Mariano Picón Salas, writer.
• José Rafael Pocaterra, writer.
• José Antonio Ramos Sucre, poet.
• Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Writer, essayist and literary critic.
• Pedro Sotillo, journalist, novelist, and poet.
• Alfredo Toro Hardy, diplomat, scholar and public intellectual.
• Arturo Uslar Pietri, Notable intellectual, historian and writer.
• Tomás Straka, Historian.
• Slavko Zupcic, writer.
• Domingo Maza Zavala, Economist, journalist and writer.
• Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897–1958), argued for a national cultural renovation in the 20th century.
• Tulio Febres Cordero writer.