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Frank Collymore
Frank Collymore (1893–1980) was a Barbadian teacher, poet, actor, and editor, best known for editing the literary magazine BIM and mentoring generations of West Indian writers.
Generación del 60
Generación del 60, also known as Generación Literaria de 1960, is a cohort of Chilean poets and writers who began publishing around 1960, interrupted by the 1973 military coup.
Georges Castera
Georges Castera, also known as Georges Castera fils, was a Haitian poet and critic who wrote in Creole and French and won the 2006 Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe.
Giannina Braschi
Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet and novelist, born in San Juan in 1953, credited with writing Yo-Yo Boing!, the first novel in Spanglish.
Gilbert Gratiant
Gilbert Gratiant (1895–1985) was a Martinican poet and prose writer who wrote in both Creole and French, best known for the Creole fable collection Fab' Compè Zicaque.
Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli, born 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua, is a Nicaraguan poet and novelist who joined the FSLN in 1970 and was stripped of citizenship by the Ortega government in 2023.
Gloria Young
Gloria Young is a Panamanian poet, essayist, and diplomat, born in Panama City around 1953, who served as ambassador to Morocco and the UN in Austria.
Gonçalves de Magalhães
Gonçalves de Magalhães, full name Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, was a Brazilian poet, physician, and diplomat whose 1836 Suspiros poéticos e saudades founded Brazilian Romanticism.
Gonçalves Dias
Gonçalves Dias (Antônio Gonçalves Dias; 1823–1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, and ethnologist, the leading Indianist poet and author of "Canção do exílio"; he is patron of chair 15 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Gonzalo Arango
Gonzalo Arango (Gonzalo Arango Arias; 1931–1976) was a Colombian poet, journalist, and essayist who founded Nadaísmo, the countercultural movement proclaimed in Medellín in 1958 that broke with Colombian cultural and religious tradition.
Gonzalo Rojas
Gonzalo Rojas (1916–2011) was a Chilean poet and one of the major figures of twentieth-century Hispanic American poetry, winner of the 2003 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spanish-language letters' highest award.
Guilherme de Almeida
Guilherme de Almeida, born Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida, was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and translator, a leading São Paulo Modernist and the first Modernist elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Guillermo Prieto
Guillermo Prieto, pseudonyms Fidel and Don Benedeno, was a Mexican poet, chronicler, and liberal politician (1818–1897) who served in congress for some forty-eight years and was finance minister four times.
Guillermo Valencia
Guillermo Valencia, full name Guillermo Valencia Castillo (1873–1943), was a Colombian poet, translator, diplomat, and Conservative politician from Popayán, a leading figure of modernismo whose works include Poésies, Catay, and Anarkos.
Harold Alvarado Tenorio
Harold Alvarado Tenorio is a Colombian poet and editor born in Buga, Valle del Cauca, in 1945, founder and director of the poetry magazine Arquitrave and a Premio Simón Bolívar winner.
Haroldo de Campos
Haroldo de Campos (1929–2003) was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator who co-founded Concrete poetry in Brazil and coined transcreation, his theory of creative literary translation.
Héctor Rojas Herazo
Héctor Rojas Herazo (1921–2002) was a Colombian poet, novelist, journalist, and painter whose novel En noviembre llega el arzobispo won the Premio Esso de Literatura.
Henriqueta Lisboa
Henriqueta Lisboa (1901–1985) was a Brazilian poet, essayist, and translator from Lambari, Minas Gerais, whose lyric, Symbolist work includes the children's classic O Menino Poeta.
Hilda Hilst
Hilda Hilst, full name Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst (1930–2004), was a Brazilian poet, playwright, and experimental fiction writer who won most of Brazil's major literary prizes.
Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis, born in 1940 in Contepec, Michoacán, is a Mexican poet, novelist, diplomat, and environmental activist who founded the Group of 100 and served as president of PEN International.
Hugo Mujica
Hugo Mujica (born 1942) is an Argentine poet and Catholic priest who spent seven years as a silent Trappist monk and won the 2025 Premio Loewe.
Humberto Ak'abal
Humberto Ak'abal, also spelled Ak'ab'al, was a K'iche' Maya poet from Momostenango, Guatemala, who wrote in K'iche' and translated his own poetry into Spanish. His work reached more than 20 languages.
Ida Faubert
Ida Faubert, born Ida Salomon Faubert, was a Haitian French poet, daughter of President Lysius Salomon, and one of the first Haitian women poets recognized internationally, writing from Paris.
Idea Vilariño
Idea Vilariño (1920–2009) was a Uruguayan poet, essayist, and translator, a central figure of the Generación del 45 known for spare poems on love, solitude, and death.
Ignacio Rodríguez Galván
Ignacio Rodríguez Galván was a Mexican poet, playwright, and editor widely regarded as Mexico's first Romantic writer; he died of yellow fever in Havana in 1842, aged 26.
Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto
Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto, pseudonym Eureste Fenício, was a Brazilian colonial poet, magistrate, and farmer, and a leader of the 1789 Inconfidência Mineira independence conspiracy.
Jacques Roumain
Jacques Roumain (1907–1944) was a Haitian poet, novelist, and ethnographer who founded the Haitian Communist Party and the Bureau d'Ethnologie, and wrote Gouverneurs de la rosée.
Jaime Jaramillo Escobar
Jaime Jaramillo Escobar, who wrote under the pseudonym X-504, was a Colombian poet from Antioquia and co-creator of the Nadaísmo movement; he died in Medellín in 2021 at 89.
Jaime Sabines
Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (1926–1999) was a Mexican poet from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, one of the most widely read Mexican poets of the late twentieth century.
Jaime Sáenz
Jaime Sáenz (Jaime Sáenz Guzmán, 1921–1986) was a Bolivian poet, novelist, and essayist regarded as Bolivia's most important writer, known for poetry linked to alcohol, night, and marginality in La Paz.