List of Cuban writers
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A list of Cuban writers, including novelists, poets, and critics:
- Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), openly gay poet, novelist, and playwright, author of Before Night Falls (Antes que anochezca)
- Silvestre de Balboa y Troya de Quesada, (1563–1649), author of Espejo de Paciencia (1608), first known Cuban narrative poem
- Miguel Barnet, anthropologist and testimonialist
- Antonio Benitez-Rojo (born 1931), author and critic
- Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–1972), poet and dissident
- Mariano Brull (1891–1956), postmodern poet
- Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist and poet
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), novelist, author of Tres tristes tigres. Cervantes Prize winner.
- Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), novelist, author of El reino de este mundo. Cervantes Prize winner.
- Julián del Casal, 19th century poet
- Ernesto Juan Castellanos (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 (born 1938), novelist and essayist,author of El Imperio de La Habana
- Edmundo Desnoes, novelist, author of Memorias del Subdesarrollo
- Jesús Díaz (1941–2002), novelist, filmmaker, and intellectual, founder of the influential cultural magazine Encuentro
- Norberto Fuentes (born 1943), author and journalist
- Fina Garcia Marruz (born 1923), poet. Queen Sofia Award for Poetry.
- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), novelist, playwright, and poet, author of Sab (1842) and Baltasar (1858)
- Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Afro-Cuban poet
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950) "dirty realist" novelist, poet, and painter
- José María Heredia y Heredia (1803–1839), poet
- Carilda Oliver Labra (born 1924), poet.
- José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), novelist and poet, author of Paradiso
- Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), poet. Cervantes Prize winner.
- José Martí (1853–1895), poet, journalist, critic, translator, and patriot
- Nancy Morejón (born 1944), Afro-Cuban poet
- Juan Cristobal Napoles Fajardo (1829 – c. 1862), writer of Siboneyista poetry
- Lisandro Otero (1932–2008), novelist and journalist.
- Heberto Padilla (1932–2000), poet
- Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955), novelist and journalist
- Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979), author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
- José Ignacio Rivero (born 1920), exile journalist
- Raúl Rivero (born 1945), dissident poet and journalist
- Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (born 1956) Novelist, poet, critic, journalist, essayist. Alfaguara Novel Prize 2008 [1]
- Severo Sarduy (1937–1993), neobaroque poet
- Ana María Simo, playwright, essayist and lesbian activist.
- Gabriel de la Concepción Valdez (1809–1844), soldier and poet, author of “Plegaria a Dios”
- Zoé Valdés (born 1959), novelist
- Cirilo Villaverde, novelist, author of Cecilia Valdés (1882)
- Cintio Vitier (1921–2009), poet, essayist and novelist.
- Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic
