WManuel Silva Acevedo is a Chilean poet. He won the National Prize for Literature in 2016.
WIsidora Aguirre Tupper was a Chilean writer, an author mainly of dramatic works on social issues that have been performed in many countries in the Americas and Europe. Her best known work is La pérgola de las flores, which, constituted "one of the milestones in the history of Chilean theater in the second half of the 20th century."
WJuan Rafael Allende was a Chilean dramatist, author and journalist. He was also known to direct and act in his own plays. He is often recognized as the father of humorous press in Chile. Through writing Allende chastised the aristocratic class and defended ideas of egalitarianism and democracy. Above all he is known for challenging the Catholic clergy.
WMartina Mercedes Eugenia Barros Borgoño Lucia was a Chilean writer and a forerunner of feminism in Chile.
WRodrigo Salago Bascuñán is a Chilean-Canadian author, television writer and producer. His non-fiction book, Enter The Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent, was nominated for numerous literary awards. He is more recently recognized for writing and producing the Peabody and International Emmy Award winning documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution.
WGuillermo Blest Gana was a Chilean writer, usually considered one of his country's leading exponents of Romantic literature.
WAlejandra Costamagna Crivelli is a Chilean writer and journalist.
WErnesto Díaz Espinoza is a writer, film director and editor known for Kiltro (2006), The ABCs of Death (2012) and Redeemer (2014).
WPaulina Flores is a Chilean writer.
WDaniel E. Friedmann was CEO of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates for 20 years until 2016.
WRamón Griffero Sánchez is a Chilean playwright and theater director, one of the most prominent in his country. He is considered an emblematic figure of the national theater during the 1980s; his earliest productions are associated with cultural and political resistance to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
WCarmen Hertz Cádiz is a Chilean Communist Party politician and lawyer who participated in various institutions for the protection of human rights that arose as a result of the systematic violations committed during the dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. She worked with the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Social Aid Foundation of Christian Churches (FASIC), the National Corporation for Reparation and Reconciliation, and the Ministry of the Interior's Human Rights Program. She became the human rights director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Chile's transition to democracy, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2018.
WPablo Hidalgo is a Chilean-Canadian creative executive, currently working for Lucasfilm on the Star Wars franchise and member of the Lucasfilm Story Group.
WVicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism").
WAndrea Jeftanovic is a Chilean author, sociologist and academic.
WPablo Jofré is a Chilean poet currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Jofré was awarded the Lagar Prize by the Chilean National Contest of Literature Gabriela Mistral for the poetry collection Abecedario in 2009. He also won first prize at the Sant Andreu de la Barca Competition for his poem "La Danza de la Existencia (Extranjería)" in 2010.
WEnrique Eduardo Lafourcade Valdenegro was a Chilean writer, critic and journalist from Santiago.
WPedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel was an openly gay Chilean essayist, chronicler, and novelist. He was known for his cutting critique of authoritarianism and for his humorous depiction of Chilean popular culture, from a queer perspective. He was nominated for Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014. He died of cancer of the larynx on 23 January 2015 in Santiago, Chile.
WMarcelo Enrique Leonart Tomas is a Chilean writer, filmmaker, and theater director.
WCamilo Marks is a Chilean human rights lawyer, academic, writer, and literary critic.
WRoberto Felipe Merino Rojo is a Chilean writer and journalist.
WLina Meruane Boza is a Chilean writer and professor. Her work, written in Spanish, has been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, German, and French. In 2011 she won the Anna Seghers-Preis for the quality of her work, and in 2012 the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel Sangre en el ojo.
WMaría Olivia Mönckeberg Pardo is a Chilean journalist, essayist, and academic. She received the National Prize for Journalism in 2009.
WTomás Moulian Emparanza is a Chilean political scientist and sociologist. A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences, he is known for being a critic of the socio-economic structure of his country after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
WMarco Antonio de la Parra is a Chilean psychiatrist, writer, and dramatist. Many of his works, which are strongly influenced by the country's 1973–90 military regime, satirize the national condition through metaphors. He is the author of more than 70 titles translated into several languages, including plays, novels, storybooks, and essays.
WMalucha Pinto Solari is a Chilean actress, theater director, and playwright.
WSilvia Emiliana Pinto Torres was a Chilean journalist and politician. She was the daughter of Óscar Pinto López and Matilde Torres Puerta de Vera, and was married to journalist Daniel Galleguillos, with whom she had three daughters.
WCarola Saavedra is a Chilean-born Brazilian writer.
WIsabel San Sebastián Cabasés is a Spanish journalist and writer.
WElisa Pérez Walker, better known by the pseudonym Elisa Serrana, was a Chilean feminist, teacher, and novelist. She was a member of her country's Generation of '50, which also included Marta Jara, Elena Aldunate, Mercedes Valdivieso, and Matilde Ladrón de Guevara.
WBenjamín Subercaseaux Zañartu (1902–1973) was a Chilean writer and researcher. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1963.
WEgon Wolff was a Chilean playwright and author. Born in Santiago, he was educated in Chile and the United States.