31 Spanish literary critics

José Albi Fita was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and translator. He was the honorary president of the Asociación Valenciana de Escritores y Críticos Literarios. Albi was the "last of the post-Spanish Civil War poets".

Amado Alonso was a Spanish philologist, linguist and literary critic, who became a naturalised citizen of Argentina and one of the founders of stylistics.

Juan Andrés y Morell was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Christian humanist and literary critic of the Age of Enlightenment. He was the creator of world history and comparative literature through the most important and extensive of his works: Dell'Origine, progressi e stato d'ogni attuale letteratura – Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura only recently restored to a critical and complete edition. He is one of the most important authors, together with Lorenzo Hervás, Antonio Eximeno, Francisco Javier Clavijero or Celestino Mutis, of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century.

Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros was a Spanish dramatist, educated at Madrid. Enlisting on 24 May 1812, he served against the French in Valencia and Catalonia, and retired with the rank of corporal on 8 March 1822. He obtained a minor post in the civil service under the liberal government, and on his discharge determined to earn his living by writing for the stage.

Rafael Cansinos Asséns, born in Seville, was a Spanish poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.

Josep Maria Castellet Díaz de Cossío, also known as José María Castellet, was a Spanish Catalan writer, poet, literacy critic, publisher and editor.

Luis Cernuda Bidón was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life. He taught in the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge before moving in 1947 to the US. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico. While he continued to write poetry, he also published wide-ranging books of critical essays, covering French, English and German as well as Spanish literature. He was frank about his homosexuality at a time when this was problematic and became something of a role model for this in Spain. His collected poems were published under the title La realidad y el deseo.

Carmen Conde Abellán was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979.

Laura Freixas is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist.

Francisco García Tortosa is a Spanish University Professor, literary critic, and translator into Spanish. In Spain García Tortosa is considered one of the chief experts on the figure and work of the Irish writer, James Joyce, whose creations he has translated and about which he has published a wide range of studies. The Irish hispanist, Ian Gibson, has called García Tortosa «Spain's leading expert on Joyce», while considering his translation of Ulysses, in collaboration with María Luisa Venegas, as «prodigious».

Olvido García Valdés is a Spanish poet, essayist, translator, and professor. She is married to the poet Miguel Casado.

Marcos Giralt Torrente is a Spanish writer. Born in Madrid, he studied philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His first book, a collection of short stories called Entiéndame, appeared in 1995. Since then, he has published three novels and three more short story collections. His literary output over two decades is relatively modest, but Giralt Torrente's work has met with notable critical success and numerous literary prizes. These include:1999 - Premio Herralde de Novela, for París. 1999 - Premio Modest Furest i Roca, for Nada sucede solo. 2011 - Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero, for El final del amor. 2011 - Premio Nacional de Narrativa, por Tiempo de vida. 2014 - Premio Strega Europeo, for the Italian translation of Tiempo de vida.

María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal (1873–1955) was a Spanish Hispanist, literary critic, researcher, educator and advocate for women's rights. In 1896 she became the first Spanish woman to earn a degree in Philosophy and Letters and the first to earn her doctorate, in 1909, at a Spanish university. She was the wife of Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

Julián Juderías y Loyot was a Spanish historian, sociologist, literary critic, journalist, translator and interpreter.

Fernando Lázaro Carreter was a Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic.

José Manuel Losada is a professor and literary theorist with a specialization in the fields of myth criticism and comparative literature. Within these fields he has published several books in Spanish, French and English.

José Carlos Mainer Baqué is a Spanish historian of literature and literary critic, Professor Emeritus of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR). He is credited for his interdisciplinary scholar work intermingling studies on cultural and literary history.

Vicente Luis Mora is a Spanish writer, poet, essayist and literary critic.

José Luis Munárriz (1762–1830) was a Spanish literary critic, translator and writer.

Elvira Navarro Ponferrada is a Spanish writer.

José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."

Marta Portal Nicolás was a Spanish writer, critic, journalist, and professor associated with the Generation of '50. She was a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.

Francisco Rico Manrique is a Spanish philologist.

Blanca de los Ríos Nostench was a Spanish writer and painter.

Fernando Sánchez Dragó is a Spanish writer and television host.

Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz is a prolific Spanish writer. He has published more than 50 books in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, travel and literary criticism. He is an acknowledged expert on the life and work of Pio Baroja. Among his major novels are La gran ilusión and No existe tal lugar which won the Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana in 1998.

José María Valverde Pacheco was a Spanish poet, essayist, literary critic, philosophy historian, and Spanish translator.

Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto is a Spanish literary theorist and critic, and is the director of the Royal Spanish Academy as of 11 December 2014. He has been a member of the academy since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D.

Ramón Xirau Subías was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.

Josep Yxart (1852–1895) was a Catalan writer.