Isabel Allende (1942-present, Chile)
Miguel Asturias (1899-1974, Guatemala; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986, Argentina; Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1979)
Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974, Mexico)
Julio Cortázar ( 1914-1984, Argentina)
Rubén Darío (1867-1916, Nicaragua)
Osvaldo Dragún (1929-1999, Argentina)
Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012, Mexico; Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1987)
Griselda Gambaro (1928-present, Argentina)
Gabriel García Marquez (1928-2014, Colombia; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982)
Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989, Cuba)
Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948, Chile)
José Martí (1853-1895, Cuba)
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957, Chile; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945)
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973, Chile; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971)
Amado Nervo (1870-1919, Mexico)
Octavio Paz (1914-1998. Mexico; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990 and Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981)
Elena Poniatowska (1932-present, Mexico)
Cristina Peri Rossi (1941-present, Uruguay)
Juan Rulfo (1917-1986, Mexico)
Luisa Valenzuela (1938-present, Argentina)
César Vallejo (1892-1938, Peru)
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-present, Peru; Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1994)
Sergio Vodanovic (1926-2001, Chile)
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