WMariano Azuela González was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest.
WMario Bellatin is a Mexican novelist.
WAlberto Chimal is a Mexican writer. He also coordinates and teaches literary workshops, and is an authority on the subject of literature on the Internet and digital writing.
WÁlvaro Enrigue is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Considered one of the most significant writers in contemporary literature in the Spanish language, Enrigue is an award-winning author of six novels, three books of short stories, and one book of essays.
WLaura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and a politician who serves in the Chamber of Deputies (2012-2018) for the Morena Party. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film.
WRené Avilés Fabila was a Mexican author whose work was recognized in Mexico and Iberoamerica.
WFederico Gamboa Iglesias was a writer and diplomat from Mexico. He has been considered as one of the top representatives of Naturalism in México. Gamboa wrote novels, theater pieces, articles for newspapers and magazines and an autobiography when he was 28 years old. For many years took notes of his travels, experiences and thought, which he later published as five diaries. Posthumously another two more volumes of his diaries were published.
WHernán Lara Zavala is a Mexican novelist, literary critic and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
WÉlmer Mendoza is a Mexican author. He is one of the key figures in the genre known as narcoliterature. A dramatist and short story writer, he is known above all for his novels, several of which feature the detective Edgar El Zurdo Mendieta.
WEdmée Pardo Murray is a Mexican writer and narrator.
WFernando del Paso Morante audio (help·info) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.
WVicente Riva Palacio y Guerrero was a liberal politician, novelist, journalist, intellectual, and military leader.
WAlberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has been the chief editor and founding publisher of Latin America's leading arts magazine, Artes de Mexico. He has been a visiting professor at several universities including Stanford, Middlebury and La Sorbonne, and has been invited to give lectures in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America. His work has been praised by Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel and Claude Michel Cluny and has received awards from several international institutions.
WDaniel Espartaco Sánchez is a Mexican writer. His second issue of short stories, Cosmonauta and his first novel, Autos usados appeared in the "best book of the year" lists from the Mexican magazine Nexos.
WLuis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares was a Mexican writer, journalist, boxing official and film director.
WGuillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist. He is best known for the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.
WB. Traven was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927). The film adaptation of the same name won three Academy Awards in 1948.
WFernando Vallejo Rendón is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
WJorge Volpi is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as In Search of Klingsor . Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s with his first publications and participation in the pronouncement of the "Crack Manifesto" with several other young writers to protest the state of Mexican literature and promote their own work. Volpi's novels are distinct from magical realism and other trends of Latin American literature as they focus on the actions of characters and research into academic topics, especially history and science, and do not always focus on Latin American characters and settings. His work has been translated into twenty five languages and recognized with awards such as Biblioteca Breva Award and the Planta-Casa de América as well as a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to his writing he has worked as a cultural attaché, the director of Canal 22 in the State of Mexico and is currently the director of the Festival Internacional Cervantino.
WHéctor Jesús Zagal Arreguín is a Mexican philosopher, essayist, novelist, and numerary member of Opus Dei. As a scholar he specializes in Aristotle.
WLuis Zapata Quiroz was one of the most prominent gay writers in Mexican literature.