List of Nicaraguan writers

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A list of Nicaraguan writers, including novelists, poets, authors, essayists, journalists, critics, and narrators among others.

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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

June Beer (1935-1986) Afro-Nicaraguan poet and artist.

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

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.

Omar D'León (1929), poet

Karly Gaitán Morales (born 1980), Nicaraguan film historian, and writer.

Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887–1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem.

Erwin Krüger (1915–1973), poet and composer.

Rigoberto López Pérez (1929–1956), poet and writer.

Francisco Mayorga (1949), writer

Camilo Mejía (1975), author

Tony Meléndez (1962), writer

Rosario Murillo (1951), poet

Daniel Ortega (1945), poet

Humberto Ortega (1947), author

Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet

Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet

Horacio Peña (1946), writer and poet

Sergio Ramírez (1942), writer

Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918), poet

Arlen Siu (died 1972), essayist

Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic

Daisy Zamora (1950), poet

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