José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father. Arguedas wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.
Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.
María Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean novelist and poet. Her work incorporates erotic, surrealist, and feminist themes. She was a recipient of the Santiago Municipal Literature Award.
Gloria Guardia was a Panamanian novelist, essayist and journalist whose works received recognition in Latin America, Europe, Australia and Japan. She was a Fellow at the Panamanian Academy of Letters and Associate Fellow at the Spanish Royal Academy, the Colombian and the Nicaraguan Academy of Letters
Federico Andahazi is an Argentine writer and psychologist.
Pedro Prado Calvo was a Chilean writer and architect. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1949.
Karla Suárez is a Cuban writer.
Pablo González Cuesta, known as Pablo Gonz, is a Spanish writer.
Flavia Company is a writer and novelist. She develops her work either in Spanish and Catalan. She has a degree in Hispanic Philology, is a journalist, translator, teacher of creative writing and lecturer. She works in different genres, and also publishes children's literature. She lives in Catalonia.
Adriana Valdés Budge is a Chilean writer essayist.
Susana Bloch Arendt is a German Chilean research psychologist whose focus is in neurophysiology and psychophysiology. She is known for creating Alba Emoting, a psychophysiological technique that allows a person to consciously induce, express, and change in and out of basic emotions.
Ana Vásquez-Bronfman was a Chilean Jewish sociologist and writer. Exiled from the country during the military dictatorship in 1973, she relocated to Paris, where she worked as a professor and researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research. Much of her literary work centered on the cultural heritage of Jews in predominantly Catholic Latin America, the effects of military dictatorship on human rights and racial prejudices and exile. Her research evaluated the psycho-sociology of children and women's sexuality. She won a National Book prize in Chile for her fiction and a bronze medal from the French National Center for Scientific Research for her scholarship.
Alejandra Costamagna Crivelli is a Chilean writer and journalist.
Isidora Aguirre Tupper was a Chilean writer, an author mainly of dramatic works on social issues that have been performed in many countries in the Americas and Europe. Her best known work is La pérgola de las flores, which, constituted "one of the milestones in the history of Chilean theater in the second half of the 20th century."
Pía Barros Bravo is a Chilean writer, best known for her short stories. She is associated with her country's literary Generation of '80.
Lina Meruane Boza is a Chilean writer and professor. Her work, written in Spanish, has been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, German, and French. In 2011 she won the Anna Seghers-Preis for the quality of her work, and in 2012 the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel Sangre en el ojo.
Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales is a Chilean writer, politician and podcaster. He is the author of the bestselling popular history trilogy Historia secreta de Chile.
Elisa Pérez Walker, better known by the pseudonym Elisa Serrana, was a Chilean feminist, teacher, and novelist. She was a member of her country's Generation of '50, which also included Marta Jara, Elena Aldunate, Mercedes Valdivieso, and Matilde Ladrón de Guevara.
María José Ferrada is a journalist and writer from Chile. She has written numerous books for children and young adults in the Spanish language, and her work has been widely translated. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Premio Academia of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and the Literary Prize of the City of Santiago, and her books for children have been published in several countries, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and the United States, in addition to Chile. She is currently the editor of Chile para Niños, which is the National Library of Chile's digital resource center for children.
Katya Adaui is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, lived in Pueblo Libre and studied journalism at Bausate y Mesa and then creative writing at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. She won the National Literature Prize of Peru in 2023 in the short story category for her book Geografía de la oscuridad. Her new book of short stories Un nombre para tu isla is a finalist for the 2024 Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero.
