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.
Karla Suárez is a Cuban writer.
Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas is a Chilean poet, short story writer and novelist. He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer, chosen in 2007 as one of the "Bogotá39" and in 2010 by Granta as one of the best Spanish writers under the age of 35.
Carla Guelfenbein Dobry is a Chilean writer, winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2015 for her book Contigo en la distancia. Guelfenbein has published six novels; The most recent one is called La estación de las mujeres and it was published in April 2019.
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.
Argentina Díaz Lozano was the pseudonym for the Honduran writer Argentina Bueso Mejía. She was a journalist and novelist, who wrote in the romantic style with feminist themes. She won numerous awards for her books, including the Golden Quetzel from Guatemala, the Honduran National Literature Prize Ramón Rosa" and the "Order Cruzeiro do Sud" from Brazil. She was admitted to the Academia Hondureña de la Lengua and is the only Central American woman whose work has officially contended for a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gustavo Gac-Artigas is a Chilean American writer, playwright, actor, theater director and editor. Born in Santiago, Chile, he has lived in New Jersey since 1995. He is a correspondent member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language.
Ana Vásquez-Bronfman was a Chilean Jewish sociologist and writer. Exiled from the country during the 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.
Elizabeth Subercaseaux Sommerhoff is a Chilean journalist and writer.
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, author of the bestselling popular history trilogy Historia secreta de Chile, politician and podcaster.
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, and Italy, 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.
