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René Depestre
René Depestre is a Haitian-born poet, novelist, and essayist living in exile since 1946 who won the prix Renaudot in 1988 for Hadriana dans tous mes rêves.
Ribeiro Couto
Ribeiro Couto (Rui Ribeiro Couto, 1898–1963) was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, and novelist, author of Cabocla, ambassador to Yugoslavia, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Ricardo Miró
Ricardo Miró Denis (1883–1940) was a Panamanian poet, novelist, and diplomat, widely regarded as the national poet of Panama for his patriotic verse and the poem "Patria".
Roberto Echavarren
Roberto Echavarren (born 1944, Montevideo) is a Uruguayan neo-baroque poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, co-editor of the anthology Medusario (1996), NYU professor for 20 years, and author of Verde escarabajo and Russian Nights.
Roberto Juarroz
Roberto Juarroz (1925–1995) was an Argentine poet and University of Buenos Aires professor known for Poesía vertical, a single continuous work in fourteen volumes published from 1958 to 1997.
Roberto Piva
Roberto Piva, full name Roberto Lopes Piva, was a Brazilian poet and translator from São Paulo (1937–2010), a central figure of the Geração 60 known for visceral, urban, experimental verse.
Rogelio Sinán
Rogelio Sinán, pen name of Bernardo Domínguez Alba (1902–1994), was a Panamanian poet, novelist, and playwright whose 1929 collection Onda introduced the avant-garde into Panamanian literature.
Roque Dalton
Roque Dalton (Roque Dalton García) was a Salvadoran poet and revolutionary, a central figure of modern Salvadoran literature, executed by his own comrades in 1975.
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923–2013) was a Mexican poet, philologist, and translator of the Greco-Roman classics who founded UNAM's Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas and won the 1974 Premio Nacional de Letras.
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941–2010) was a Portuguese-born Angolan poet, anthropologist, and filmmaker known for joining ethnography and literature in works about southern Angola's pastoral peoples.
Salgado Maranhão
Salgado Maranhão, pen name of José Salgado Santos Costa, is a Brazilian poet born in 1953 in Caxias, Maranhão, known for formally demanding verse rooted in the Brazilian Northeast, and a two-time Jabuti Prize winner.
Salvador Díaz Mirón
Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853–1928) was a Mexican poet and journalist from Veracruz, a precursor of Modernismo whose only authorized book of verse, Lascas, appeared in 1901.
Salvador Novo
Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a Mexican poet, essayist, playwright, and chronicler of the Contemporáneos generation, remembered as a pioneer in making homosexuality visible in Mexican letters.
Sousândrade
Sousândrade, pen name of Joaquim de Sousa Andrade (1832–1902), was a Brazilian Romantic poet whose epic O Guesa is seen as a precursor of modern poetry.
Torquato Neto
Torquato Neto (1944–1972) was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, and journalist from Teresina, one of the principal figures of the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s.
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) was a Chilean poet born in Santiago who founded Creacionismo, the avant-garde movement treating the poem as a made object, and wrote Altazor.
Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright, born in Cárdenas, regarded as a pioneer of absurdist literature in Cuba and Spanish America.
Washington Benavides
Washington Benavides (1930–2017) was a Uruguayan poet, critic, and teacher from Tacuarembó who published more than 25 books and was a central figure of the Grupo de Tacuarembó.
William Ospina
William Ospina, born 1954 in Padua, Tolima, Colombia, is a Colombian poet, essayist, and novelist best known for the Amazon trilogy of historical novels retelling El Dorado.
Xavier Villaurrutia
Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, essayist, and critic, a leading figure of the Contemporáneos group best known for his nocturnos and the poetry collection Nostalgia de la muerte (1938).