A list of Nicaraguan writers, including novelists, poets, authors, essayists, journalists, critics, and narrators among others.

List

• Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006.
• Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer
• Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919–2014), political writer
• June Beer (1935-1986) Afro-Nicaraguan poet and artist.
• Gioconda Belli (1948), poet
• Yolanda Blanco (1954), poet and translator.
• Tomás Borge (1930–2012), writer, poet, and essayist.
• Omar Cabezas (1950), writer
• Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), 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.
• Ana Ilce Gómez Ortega (1944–2017), poet
• 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
• 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
• Aura Rostand (1899–1957), poet
• Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918–2002), poet
• Arlen Siu (1955-1975), essayist
• Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
• Daisy Zamora (1950), poet

See also

• List of Nicaraguan women writers