List of Cuban writers

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A list of Cuban writers, including novelists, poets, and critics:

A[]

  • Brígida Agüero (1837-1866), poet
  • Mirta Aguirre (1912–1980), poet, novelist, and journalist
  • Magaly Alabau (born 1945), poet
  • Dora Alonso (1910–2001), author and journalist
  • Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), openly gay poet, novelist, and playwright, author of Before Night Falls (Antes que anochezca)

B[]

  • Joaquín Badajoz (born 1972), poet and writer
  • Gastón Baquero (1916–1997), poet and writer
  • Miguel Barnet, anthropologist and testimonialist
  • Antonio Benítez-Rojo (1931-2005), author and critic
  • Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–1972), poet and dissident
  • Mariano Brull (1891–1956), postmodern poet

C[]

  • Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist and poet
  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), novelist, author of Tres tristes tigres, Cervantes Prize winner
  • Onelio Jorge Cardoso (1914–1986), screenwriter and short fiction writer
  • Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), novelist, author of El reino de este mundo, Cervantes Prize winner
  • Julián del Casal, 19th-century poet
  • Fidel Castro (1926–2016), former President of Cuba
  • (born 1963), English translator, journalist, and author of several books about The Beatles
  • Daniel Chavarria, Uruguyan-born author
  • Daína Chaviano, novelist and short-story writer
  • Enrique Cirules (1938-2016), novelist and essayist
  • Domitila García de Coronado (1847-1938), writer, journalist, editor, professor

D[]

  • Edmundo Desnoes, novelist, author of Memorias del Subdesarrollo
  • Jesús Díaz (1941–2002), novelist, filmmaker, and intellectual, founder of the influential cultural magazine Encuentro

E[]

  • Darío Espina Pérez (October 25, 1920–September 6, 1996), writer, founder and president of La Academia Poética de Miami

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G[]

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L[]

  • Carilda Oliver Labra (1922-2018), poet
  • José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), novelist and poet, author of Paradiso
  • Eduardo del Llano (born 1962)

M[]

O[]

  • Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969), author and essayist
  • Lisandro Otero (1932–2008), novelist and journalist

P[]

  • Heberto Padilla (1932–2000), poet
  • Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955), novelist and journalist
  • Ricardo Pau-Llosa (born 1954), poet
  • Regino Pedroso (1896–1983), poet
  • Gustavo Pérez Firmat (born 1949), poet, memoirist, literary critic
  • Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979), author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
  • Carlos Pintado (born 1974), poet
  • (born 1977), memoirist, short story writer, screenwriter

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Z[]

  • Juan Clemente Zenea (1832–1871), author and poet
  • Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic

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