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Julio Flórez
Julio Flórez, full name Julio Flórez Roa, was a Colombian poet, the leading representative of late Romanticism, crowned national poet weeks before his death in 1923.
Junqueira Freire
Junqueira Freire (Luís José Junqueira Freire, 1832 to 1855) was a Brazilian Benedictine monk and ultraromantic poet of Salvador, Bahia, known for the poetry collection Inspirações do claustro (1855).
León de Greiff
León de Greiff, born Francisco León de Greiff Häusler, was a Colombian poet born in Medellín in 1895 whose musical, obscure verse made him central to Colombian poetry.
Léon-Gontran Damas
Léon-Gontran Damas (1912–1978) was a French Guianese poet who co-founded the Négritude movement with Césaire and Senghor; his first collection, Pigments (1937), confronted colonial racism.
Leónidas Lamborghini
Leónidas Lamborghini (1927–2009) was an Argentine poet, playwright, and novelist, a renovator of 1960s Argentine lyric poetry whose work drew on parody, rewriting, and the gauchesca tradition.
Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and storyteller, the leading Spanish American modernista after Rubén Darío and author of La guerra gaucha and El payador.
Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal (1900–1970) was an Argentine poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist of the Martín Fierro avant-garde generation, best known for Adán Buenosayres (1948); his support for Peronism brought two decades of ostracism before 1960s recognition.
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
Lola Rodríguez de Tió, born Dolores Rodríguez de Astudillo y Ponce de León, was a Puerto Rican poet and independence activist who wrote the original lyrics of "La Borinqueña."
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison is a Jamaican poet, painter, and memoirist who served as Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017 to 2020, the first woman in the role.
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Louise Bennett-Coverley, known as Miss Lou (1919–2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, and performer who established Jamaican Creole as a literary medium over a fifty-year career.
Luis Alfredo Arango
Luis Alfredo Arango (1935–2001) was a Guatemalan poet and narrator from Totonicapán whose work centers on Guatemalan history, memory, and indigenous identity, and the first winner of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize.
Luis Cardoza y Aragón
Luis Cardoza y Aragón (1901 or 1904–1992) was a Guatemalan poet, essayist, and art critic who lived in exile in Mexico, best known for Guatemala, las líneas de su mano (1955).
Luis Carlos López
Luis Carlos López, or el Tuerto López, was a Colombian poet known for bringing the prosaic, everyday details of provincial life into Spanish American poetry.
Luis G. Urbina
Luis G. Urbina (Luis Gonzaga Urbina, 1864–1934) was a Mexican poet, chronicler, journalist, and diplomat, nicknamed El Viejecito, whose melancholy verse bridges romanticism and modernism.
Luís Gama
Luís Gama, full name Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (1830–1882), was a Brazilian abolitionist and self-taught lawyer who freed more than 500 enslaved people through freedom suits.
Luis Vidales
Luis Vidales, full name Luis Nelson Vidales Jaramillo, was a Colombian avant-garde poet and communist militant whose 1926 book Suenan timbres made him a central figure of the Colombian vanguard.
Manuel Acuña
Manuel Acuña (full name Manuel Acuña Narro, 1849–1873) was a Mexican Romantic poet and playwright whose "Nocturno a Rosario" became one of the most popular poems in the Spanish language.
Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968) was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator, a founding figure of Brazilian Modernism called its "Saint John the Baptist" by Mário de Andrade.
Manuel Carpio
Manuel Carpio, full name Manuel Eulogio Carpio Hernández, was a Mexican poet, physician, and Conservative politician (1791–1860), known for the first printed depiction of La Llorona.
Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (1859–1895), known by his pseudonym El Duque Job, was a Mexican poet, journalist, and theater critic regarded as the initiator of Modernismo in Mexico.
Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga
Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga (1749–1814) was a Brazilian colonial poet and lawyer, a leading figure of Arcadism who wrote under the pen name Alcindo Palmireno.
Manuel José Othón
Manuel José Othón (1858–1906) was a Mexican poet, playwright, and politician from San Luis Potosí, remembered for Poemas rústicos and the sonnet sequence Idilio salvaje.
Manuel Odorico Mendes
Manuel Odorico Mendes (1799–1864) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, politician, and translator from São Luís, Maranhão, who produced the first complete Portuguese translations of Homer and Virgil.
María Enriqueta Camarillo
María Enriqueta Camarillo was a Mexican poet, novelist, and translator born in 1872 in Coatepec, Veracruz, who lived and published in Madrid for more than thirty years.
María Raquel Adler
María Raquel Adler was an Argentine mystical poet of Jewish descent who converted to Catholicism, published about eleven collections, and was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mariano Melgar
Mariano Melgar, full name Mariano Lorenzo Melgar Valdivieso (1790–1815), was a Peruvian poet and independence fighter from Arequipa, creator of the mestizo yaraví and precursor of Romanticism in Hispanic American literature.
Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) was a Uruguayan poet, novelist, and playwright of the Generación del 45 whose colloquial verse and 1960 novel La tregua brought international fame.
Mário Faustino
Mário Faustino (1930, Teresina – 1962) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and critic who published one book of poems, O homem e sua hora, in 1955.
Mário Quintana
Mário Quintana, full name Mario de Miranda Quintana, was a Brazilian poet and translator of Brazilian Modernism, known for short, ironic, formally simple verse until his death in 1994.
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, and professor, born in 1966, known for Sirena Selena vestida de pena and for founding the Festival de la Palabra.