Carlos Alvarado-LarroucauW
Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau

Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau is an Argentine-born French author, born in Argentina in 1964.

Olegario Víctor AndradeW
Olegario Víctor Andrade

Olegario Víctor Andrade (1839–1882) was an Argentine journalist, poet and politician, who was born in Brazil. His daughter, Agustina Andrade, was also a poet.

Norberto AroldiW
Norberto Aroldi

Norberto Aroldi was an Argentine film actor, poet and screenwriter.

Hilario AscasubiW
Hilario Ascasubi

Hilario Ascasubi was an Argentine poet, politician and diplomat.

Enrique BanchsW
Enrique Banchs

Enrique Banchs (1888–1968) was an Argentine poet. He published all his work in the space of four years at the beginning of the 20th century. In his four works, Las barcas (1907), El libro de los elogios (1908), El cascabel del halcón (1909) and La urna (1911). Banchs cultivated an ephemeral, classicistic style drawing inspiration from the Siglo de Oro. His final work was composed in sonnets, a form which had already been almost completely abandoned by that time. Banchs published nothing during the final fifty years of his life, but he remained a part of the Argentine literary scene, and a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters. He was a friend of Carlos Alberto Leumann.

Vicente BarbieriW
Vicente Barbieri

Vicente Barbieri was an Argentine poet born in Alberti. He was part of the Argentine Generation of '40, and is known for several poem collections like El bailarín (1953), and many others. In the years 1955 and 1956 he was director of El Hogar magazine and president of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE). He died at the age of 53 from tuberculosis and was awarded posthumously with the National Prize of Poetry.

Francisco Luis BernárdezW
Francisco Luis Bernárdez

Francisco Luis Bernárdez was an Argentine poet, born in Buenos Aires.

Rafael BielsaW
Rafael Bielsa

Rafael Antonio Bielsa Caldera is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Rosario, province of Santa Fe. Since 2020 he has been Argentina's ambassador to Chile.

Jorge Luis BorgesW
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and universal literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have been considered by some critics to mark the beginning of the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.

José Antonio BottiroliW
José Antonio Bottiroli

José Antonio Bottiroli was an Argentine classical music composer and poet.

Miguel BrascóW
Miguel Brascó

Miguel Brascó was an Argentine writer, poet and translator, humorist, cartoonist, editor, critic who is a specialist in wine and gourmet food. From Sastre, Santa Fe, he was also a lawyer and journalist of long standing, and a keen observer of Argentine affairs.

Estanislao del CampoW
Estanislao del Campo

Estanislao del Campo was an Argentine poet. Born in Buenos Aires to a unitarian family—the unitarians were a political party favoring a strong central government rather than a federation, he fought in the battles of Cepeda and Pavón, defending Buenos Aires´s rights.

Evaristo CarriegoW
Evaristo Carriego

Evaristo Carriego, was an Argentine poet, best known today for the biography written about him by Jorge Luis Borges.

Cátulo CastilloW
Cátulo Castillo

Ovidio Cátulo González Castillo was an Argentine poet and tango music composer. He was the author of many famous works, such as Organito de la tarde, El aguacero, Tinta roja and Caserón de tejas, María and La última curda, and El último café. The tango La calesita, which he composed with Mariano Mores, inspired the film of the same name directed in 1962 by Hugo del Carril.

Andrés ChabrillónW
Andrés Chabrillón

Andrés Chabrillón was an Argentine poet, writer, lecturer and literature professor of French descent.

Fermín ChávezW
Fermín Chávez

Fermín Chávez was an Argentine historian, poet and journalist, born in El Pueblito, a small town near Nogoyá, province of Entre Ríos. He studied humanities in Córdoba, philosophy in Buenos Aires, and devoted three years to the study of theology, canon law, archaeology and Ancient Hebrew in Cuzco, Peru.

Gabino Coria PeñalozaW
Gabino Coria Peñaloza

Gabino Coria Peñaloza was an Argentine poet and lyricist.

Humberto CostantiniW
Humberto Costantini

Humberto "Cacho" Costantini was an Argentine writer and poet whose work is filled with the rich slang (porteño) of Buenos Aires. Except for his years of exile in Mexico, his life was lived in and around Buenos Aires.

Washington CucurtoW
Washington Cucurto

Santiago Vega, better known as Washington Cucurto, is an Argentinian writer of fiction, prose and poetry. He is the self-proclaimed creator of realismo atolondrado. His writing shares tendencies of American authors like Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller. Because of his subject matter and style, he is a cult author, especially among young readers. His work deals with negritude, poverty, homosexuality, and other fringe cultures. In 2002 he founded Eloísa Cartonera, an extremely successful non-profit publishing house specializing in handmade and affordable books from recycled materials.

Claudio Mamerto CuencaW
Claudio Mamerto Cuenca

Claudio Mamerto Cuenca (1812–1852) was an Argentine poet and physician.

Esteban EcheverríaW
Esteban Echeverría

José Esteban Antonio Echeverría was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his organizational efforts. He was one of Latin America's most important Romantic authors.

Luis Franco (writer)W
Luis Franco (writer)

Luis (Leopoldo) Franco was an autodidact, a self-made intellectual, essayist, and poet.

Juan GelmanW
Juan Gelman

Juan Gelman was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, country where he arrived as a political exile of the Military Junta.

Oliverio GirondoW
Oliverio Girondo

Oliverio Girondo was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England. He is perhaps most famous for his participation in the magazines, which ushered in the arrival of ultraism, the first of the vanguardist movements to settle in Argentina.

Alberto GirriW
Alberto Girri

Alberto Girri (1919–1991) was an Argentine poet and writer born in Buenos Aires.

Eduardo González LanuzaW
Eduardo González Lanuza

Eduardo González Lanuza was an Argentine poet born in Santander, Spain. One of his best known work is "Poem for Being Recorded in a Phonograph Disc" (1932). He also was part of the Ultraist movement and one of the founders of Prisma and Proa magazines as well as contributor in Martín Fierro magazine.

Raúl González TuñónW
Raúl González Tuñón

Raúl González Tuñón was an Argentine poet and writer from Buenos Aires. He also worked as a journalist, notably for the journal Crítica, and was known for his social activism and his socialist beliefs. He was a great friend of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. His first book of poetry, El violín del diablo, was published by the well-known Buenos Aires publishing house Editorial Gleizer in 1926, and Gleizer then published many of his later works.

César González (poet)W
César González (poet)

César González, is an Argentinian poet and cinematographer. He is often referred to as "el poeta villero".

Ricardo GüiraldesW
Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo 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.

José Hernández (writer)W
José Hernández (writer)

José Hernández was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.

Santiago KovadloffW
Santiago Kovadloff

Santiago Kovadloff is an Argentine essayist, poet, translator, anthologist of Portuguese literature and author of children's stories. He was born in Buenos Aires where he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires with a thesis on the thought of Martin Buber called "The hearer of God". Some of his works were translated into Hebrew, Portuguese, German, Italian and French and others have spread throughout Spain.

Álvaro Melián LafinurW
Álvaro Melián Lafinur

Álvaro Octavio Melián Lafinur was an Argentinian poet and critic.

Carlos Alberto LeumannW
Carlos Alberto Leumann

Carlos Alberto Leumann (1886–1952) was an Argentine poet, teacher, and essayist. He wrote essays on science and metaphysics, and was the director of the literary supplement in La Nación. His poems have been published in Spanish language anthologies.

Esteban de LucaW
Esteban de Luca

Esteban de Luca was an Argentine military officer, poet, and government official during the nation's early years.

Tom LupoW
Tom Lupo

Tom Lupo was an Argentine poet, psychoanalyst and radio personality. He was born in Charata, Argentina. He hosted the radio show The Tom Lupo Show. In 2011, he released a poetry collection titled Giro hondo. He hosted many shows on Televisión Pública.

Leopoldo MarechalW
Leopoldo Marechal

Leopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.

José MármolW
José Mármol

José Mármol was an Argentine journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.

Hugo MujicaW
Hugo Mujica

Hugo Mujica is an Argentine Catholic priest, poet, writer, and former Trappist monk.

Ulyses Petit de MuratW
Ulyses Petit de Murat

Ulyses Petit de Murat was an Argentine poet and screenwriter.

Rafael ObligadoW
Rafael Obligado

Rafael Obligado was an Argentine poet and playwright.

Juan Laurentino OrtizW
Juan Laurentino Ortiz

Juan Laurentino Ortiz was an Argentine poet, born in the town of Puerto Ruiz, Entre Ríos Province. He died in Paraná, capital of the same province, at the age of 82.

Calixto OyuelaW
Calixto Oyuela

Calixto Oyuela was an Argentine poet and essayist.

Pedro Bonifacio PalaciosW
Pedro Bonifacio Palacios

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios, better known by his sobriquet, Almafuerte, was an Argentine poet.

José PedroniW
José Pedroni

José Bartholomew Pedroni Fantino was an Argentine poet.

Aldo PellegriniW
Aldo Pellegrini

Aldo Mario Pellegrini, was an Argentine poet, essayist and art critic.

Sixto Pondal RíosW
Sixto Pondal Ríos

Sixto Pondal Ríos was an Argentine screenwriter, poet and dramatist.

Sergio RaimondiW
Sergio Raimondi

Sergio Raimondi is an Argentine poet. He is also a professor at Universidad Nacional del Sur, where he is in charge of the subject Contemporary Literature. Until June, 2011, he was the director of the Museo del Puerto de Ingeniero White.

Horacio A. Rega MolinaW
Horacio A. Rega Molina

Horacio Rega Molina was an Argentine poet specialized in sonnets, journalist, writer, teacher, and Argentine dramatist. He worked as a literary critic in the newspaper "El Mundo".

José Rivera IndarteW
José Rivera Indarte

José Rivera Indarte was an Argentine poet and journalist. He was at times both a supporter and critic of Juan Manuel de Rosas, writing first the "Anthem of the restorers" and later the "Blood tables".

Raúl Scalabrini OrtizW
Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz

Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz was an Argentine writer, philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet, friend of Arturo Jauretche and Homero Manzi, and loosely associated with the political group Fuerza de Orientación Radical de la Joven Argentina (FORJA).

Mario TrejoW
Mario Trejo

Mario Trejo was an Argentine poet, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.

Francisco UrondoW
Francisco Urondo

Francisco "Paco" Urondo was an Argentine writer and member of the Montoneros guerrilla organization.

Alberto VanascoW
Alberto Vanasco

Alberto Vanasco was an Argentine novelist, poet and short fiction writer.