page_title: List of Nicaraguan writers
section_title: List
hierarchical_section_title: List of Nicaraguan writers / List
caption_attribution_description: III Festival Internacional de Poesia. Granada, Nicaragua
context_page_description: A list of Nicaraguan writers, including novelists, poets, authors, essayists, journalists, critics, and narrators among others.
context_section_description: Claribel Alegría (1924), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006.
  Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer
  Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919), political writer
  June Beer (1935-1986) Afro-Nicaraguan poet and artist.
  Gioconda Belli (1948), poet
  Yolanda Blanco (1954), poet and translator.
  Tomás Borge (1930), writer, poet, and essayist.
  Omar Cabezas (1950), writer
  Ernesto Cardenal (1925), poet
  Blanca Castellón (1958), poet
  José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994), poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, and historian.
  Alfonso Cortés (1893–1969), poet
  Arturo Cruz (1954), writer
  Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002), poet
  Rubén Darío (1867–1916), poet, referred to as The Father of Modernism.
  Omar D'León (1929), poet
  Karly Gaitán Morales (born 1980), Nicaraguan film historian, and writer.
  Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887–1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem.
  Erwin Krüger (1915–1973), poet and composer.
  Rigoberto López Pérez (1929–1956), poet and writer.
  Francisco Mayorga (1949), writer
  Camilo Mejía (1975), author
  Tony Meléndez (1962), writer
  Rosario Murillo (1951), poet
  Daniel Ortega (1945), poet
  Humberto Ortega (1947), author
  Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet
  Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet
  Horacio Peña (1946), writer and poet
  Sergio Ramírez (1942), writer
  Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918), poet
  Arlen Siu (1955-1975), essayist
  Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
  Daisy Zamora (1950), poet
caption: Gioconda Belli, designated amongst the 100 most important poets during the 20th century.
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