WMartín Adán, pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet whose body of work is notable for its hermeticism and metaphysical depth.
WCiro Alegría Bazán was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist.
WJosé María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of Spanish descent, with a rare fluency in the native Quechua language, gained by living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11 - first in the indigenous servant quarters of his step-mother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an indigenous family approved by his father - who wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.
WMario Bellatin is a Mexican novelist.
WAlfredo Bryce Echenique is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written numerous books and short stories.
WAlonso Cueto Caballero is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist.
WEric Frattini is a Spanish essayist, novelist, journalist, college professor, political analyst, television screenwriter, and lecturer.
WEduardo González Viaña is a writer and professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University.
WPablo Landeo Muñoz is a Peruvian award-winning writer, translator, and teacher of language and literature. His literary works are written in Quechua and Spanish.
WAmalia Natividad de las Mercedes Puga y Puga, best known as Amalia Puga de Losada, was a Peruvian writer, poet, novelist, essayist and storyteller. She was included as a member of the "Círculo Literario" in 1887 and of the "Ateneo de Lima" in 1891.
WGustavo Rodríguez Vela is a Peruvian writer and communication expert, author of several novels and story books.
WSantiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann is a Peruvian writer, screenwriter, translator and journalist. He has written five novels about fear. He is also author of a trilogy of non-fiction books on Latin American twentieth century.
WManuel Scorza was an important Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría. He was born in Lima.
WGunter Silva is a Peruvian writer.
WCarlos Thorne is a Peruvian novelist, writer and lawyer. He is regarded as one of the most original and innovative Peruvian writers of the second half of the 20th century. This is due to his unique blend of avant garde flashback techniques, following Malcolm Lowry and James Joyce, with historical detail and accuracy, to the point of reproducing the Spanish of the Conquistadores.
WJorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
WEnrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez , was a Peruvian author and mathematician. He was a member of Movimiento Hora Zero with the poets Jorge Pimentel, Juan Ramírez Ruiz, Jorge Nájar, Enriqueta Belevan and Carmen Ollé.