WFederico Andahazi is an Argentine writer and psychologist.
WRoberto Arlt was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor.
WOrlando Barone, is an Argentine journalist, writer and university lecturer. As a journalist he works for the newspaper Debate and as a columnist in the TV program 6, 7, 8.
WMartín Caparrós is a writer. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in journalism was with the now defunct daily Noticias. In 1976, Caparrós fled to exile following the military coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla. In Paris, he obtained a degree in history at the University of Paris. Caparrós would later relocate to Madrid, Spain. During the early 1980s, he resettled to Buenos Aires and since then he has produced a vast body of work including fiction and nonfiction alike.
WJulio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar American Spanish: [ˈxuljo korˈtasar] (listen); was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
WJosé Pablo Feinmann is an Argentine philosopher, writer, playwright and TV host. He has also written several screenplays for domestic film production and international coproductions.
WRicardo Forster is an Argentine philosopher, historian of ideas and political critic.
WCarlos Gamerro is an Argentinean novelist, critic, and translator. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1962.
WMempo Giardinelli is an Argentine novelist and academic, author of numerous books, including novels, essay collections, and short story collections.
WRicardo Güiraldes was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.
WWilliam Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.
WMartín Kohan is an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He teaches literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Patagonia. He has published more than a dozen books in various genres - essays, short stories and novels. His best-known novel is Ciencias morales which won the Premio Herralde and was turned into a film called La mirada invisible by the director Diego Lerman. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Hebrew. Two of his novels are available in English: School for Patriots and Seconds Out. Both were translated by Nick Caistor under the Serpent's Tail imprint.
WHéctor Lastra was a writer from Argentina.
WBenito Lynch was an Argentine novelist and short story writer.
WEduardo Mallea was an Argentine essayist, cultural critic, writer and diplomat. In 1931 he became editor of the literary magazine of La Nación.
WLeopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.
WGuillermo Martínez is an Argentine novelist and short story writer.
WFray Mocho was the pen name for the Argentine writer and journalist José Ciriaco Alvarez. He moved to Buenos Aires first in 1876 and then again to stay in 1879 at the age of 21. He was known to his friends as "Mocho" (blunt) and later added the title "Fray". He wrote for several newspapers including El Nacional, La Pampa, La Patria Argentina, and La Razón. He also wrote for magazines such as the short-lived Fray Gerundio, El Ateneo and La Colmena Artística. He wrote essays about life in Buenos Aires in the latter part of the 19th century, including Esmeraldas (polished), Cuentos Mundanos, La vida de los ladrones célebres de Buenos Aires y sus maneras de robar and Memorias de un Vigilante. In 1898 he wrote the book En el Mar Austral.
WManuel Mujica Láinez was an Argentine novelist, essayist and art critic.
WAndrés Neuman is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.
WRoberto Jorge Payró was an Argentine writer and journalist.
WLuis María Pescetti is an Argentinian novelist, essayist, musician and actor.
WAbel Parentini Posse, best known as Abel Posse, is an Argentine novelist, essayist, poet, career diplomat and politician.
WJuan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
WJuan José Saer was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th Century. He is considered the most important writer of Argentina after Jorge Luis Borges and the best Argentine writer of the second half of the 20th century.
WWilliam Shand (1902–1997) was a Scottish-born Argentine poet, novelist and playwright. Arriving in Argentina in 1938, he worked for La Nación as a book reviewer, translator and critic. Shand translated the poetry of John Donne and Stephen Spender and was a playwright of multiple works, including the libretto for the opera Beatrix Cenci of Alberto Ginastera. Collaborating with Alberto Girri, they compiled other poets' works into collected editions. Characterized as "a careful observer of contemporary Argentine society" Shand "... often dealt with highly controversial and delicate topics". He split his time between an apartment opposite Plazoleta Carlos Pellegrini and a villa in San Miguel.
WFrancisco "Paco" Urondo was an Argentine writer and member of the Montoneros guerrilla organization.
WDavid Viñas was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.
WMichael James Wilson is an American-Argentine writer based in Chile.