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Cecília Meireles
Cecília Meireles (1901–1964) was a Brazilian poet and educator from Rio de Janeiro, whose verse novel Romanceiro da Inconfidência (1953) is a landmark of Brazilian modernism.
César Dávila Andrade
César Dávila Andrade (1918–1967) was an Ecuadorian poet, short-story writer, and essayist known as "El Fakir", whose best-known poem is "Boletín y elegía de las mitas" (1959).
César Moro
César Moro, pen name of Alfredo Quíspez Asín (1903–1956), was a Peruvian surrealist poet and painter who wrote nearly all his poetry in French and is seen as a central figure of Latin American surrealism.
César Tiempo
César Tiempo was the pen name of Israel Zeitlin (1906–1980), a Ukrainian-born Argentine writer and playwright known for poetry on Jewish immigrant life in Buenos Aires.
Claribel Alegría
Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) was a Salvadoran-Nicaraguan poet, novelist, and journalist, one of Central America's leading writers, whose more than forty books won the Casa de las Américas and Neustadt prizes.
Conceição Lima
Conceição Lima, born Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima (1961–2026), was a Santomean poet and BBC journalist whose four poetry collections explore colonial history and independence.
Conrado Nalé Roxlo
Conrado Nalé Roxlo (1898–1971) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and humorist from Buenos Aires who made his name as a poet with El grillo in 1923.
Cora Coralina
Cora Coralina was the pen name of Ana Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas, a Brazilian poet and short-story writer from Goiás who published her first book at 75.
Cruz e Sousa
Cruz e Sousa, also known as João da Cruz e Sousa, was a Brazilian poet born in Florianópolis whose 1893 works Missal and Broquéis inaugurated Symbolism in Brazil.
Darío Jaramillo Agudelo
Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, born 1947 in Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia, is a poet, novelist, and essayist and a leading renovator of Colombian love poetry.
David Mestre
David Mestre was the pen name of Luís Filipe Guimarães da Mota Veiga, an Angolan poet, journalist, and literary critic born in Portugal in 1948.
Décio Pignatari
Décio Pignatari (1927–2012) was a Brazilian poet who co-founded the concrete poetry movement with Haroldo and Augusto de Campos through the magazine Noigandres in 1952.
Delmira Agustini
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) was an Uruguayan poet of the Generación del 900, regarded as the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America, known for erotic verse written from a female perspective.
Eduardo Carranza
Eduardo Carranza Fernández (1913–1985) was a Colombian poet from the eastern plains who co-founded the Piedra y Cielo group and directed the National Library of Colombia.
Elvio Romero
Elvio Romero was a Paraguayan poet and journalist, exiled in Argentina after the 1947 civil war and the first winner of Paraguay's National Literature Prize.
Emiliano Perneta
Emiliano David Perneta (1866–1921) was a Brazilian symbolist poet, journalist, lawyer, and professor from Curitiba, crowned Prince of the Paraná Poets in 1911 and ranked alongside Cruz e Sousa.
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (1911–2001) was a Peruvian poet and editor whose surrealist-influenced early books, Las ínsulas extrañas (1933) and Abolición de la muerte (1935), renewed Peruvian poetry.
Enrique Banchs
Enrique Banchs (1888–1968) was an Argentine poet who wrote his entire work, four books of poems, between the ages of 19 and 23, and then fell silent for the rest of his life.
Enrique González Martínez
Enrique González Martínez (1871–1952) was a Mexican poet, physician, and diplomat whose 1911 sonnet "Tuércele el cuello al cisne" became a manifesto of rupture with Modernismo.
Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn (Enrique Lihn Carrasco, 1929–1988) was a Chilean poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and visual artist of the Generación Literaria de 1950 whose breakthrough book was La pieza oscura (1963).
Enrique Molina (poet)
Enrique Molina (1910–1996) was an Argentine poet of the Generación del '40, one of the country's leading surrealist poets beside Olga Orozco and Aldo Pellegrini.
Ernesto Mejía Sánchez
Ernesto Mejía Sánchez was a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, critic, and philologist (1923–1985) who spent most of his career in Mexico and became a leading scholarly editor of Rubén Darío and Alfonso Reyes.
Evaristo Carriego
Evaristo Carriego (1883–1912) was an Argentine poet from Entre Ríos who wrote about the poor neighborhoods, or orillas, of Buenos Aires, and is best known through Borges's 1930 book about him.
Evaristo da Veiga
Evaristo da Veiga (Evaristo Ferreira da Veiga e Barros; 1799–1837) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and bookseller who wrote the lyrics of Brazil's Independence Anthem.
Fagundes Varela
Fagundes Varela, full name Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela, was a Brazilian Romantic poet (1841–1875) of the second, ultraromantic generation, best known for "Cântico do Calvário".
Fernando Calderón
Fernando Calderón y Beltrán (1809–1845) was a Mexican poet, playwright, lawyer, and liberal politician, an initiator of romanticism in Mexico whose comedy A ninguna de las tres is still performed.
Ferreira Gullar
Ferreira Gullar, pen name of José de Ribamar Ferreira (1930–2016), was a Brazilian poet, playwright, and essayist who founded Neoconcretism in Rio de Janeiro and wrote Poema sujo (1976).
Francisco Gavidia
Francisco Gavidia (1863 or 1864 – 1955) was a Salvadoran poet, playwright, and historian, an originator of Spanish-American modernismo and early mentor of Rubén Darío.
Francisco González Bocanegra
Francisco González Bocanegra (1824–1861) was a Mexican poet, orator, and dramatist from San Luis Potosí who wrote the lyrics of the Himno Nacional Mexicano, winning a government contest in 1854.
Francisco Madariaga
Francisco Madariaga (1927–2000) was an Argentine poet who fused surrealism with the landscapes and mythology of Corrientes province, winning the Premio Nacional de Poesía posthumously in 2005.