1. Laura Esquivel (1950)

Mexican Writer

Mexican novelist and politician best known for her 1989 debut novel, Like Water for Chocolate. Her other published works include The Law of Love (1996) and Malinche (2006). In 2012...

2. Jorge Cruise (1971)

Mexican Writer

Celebrity fitness trainer and author known for his bestselling weight loss and diet books. He's also worked as a television personality, appearing on various daytime talkshows to talk about health...

3. Gerardo Horacio Porcayo (1966)

Mexican Writer

Gerardo Horacio Porcayo Villalobos is a Mexican science fiction and fantasy writer. Porcayo's novel La primera calle de la soledad is considered to be the first example of the cyberpunk...

4. Anita Brenner (Unknow)

Mexican Writer

Anita Brenner an author of children's literature and books on Mexican art and history was born in Aguascalientes Mexico. Her father a Jewish emigrant to Mexico from Latvia moved his...

5. Reyna Grande (1975)

Mexican Writer

Reyna Grande is a Mexican author best-known for her 2007 novel Across a Hundred Mountains which was published by Atria Books. Although a work of fiction it draws heavily on...

6. Araceli Ardón (1958)

Mexican Writer

Araceli Ardon is a Mexican writer from Santiago de Querétaro Querétaro.

7. Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (1936)

Mexican Writer

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman is a Mexican writer and poet. She was born in Hyères in France to parents who had fled the Spanish Civil War. She converted to Judaism after discovering...

8. Daniel Sada (1953)

Mexican Writer

Daniel Sada was a Mexican poet journalist and writer whose work has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish language. He organized many poetry workshops...

9. Alejandro Licona (Unknow)

Mexican Writer

Alejandro Licona Padilla is a Mexican dramatist who has won awards for his stage plays and screenplays.

10. Hermila Galindo (1896)

Mexican Writer

Hermila Galindo de Topete was a Mexican feminist and a writer who during the Mexican Revolution became a public supporter of Venustiano Carranza. She supported liberal ideas and was part...

11. Lourdes Urrea (1954)

Mexican Writer

Lourdes Urrea is an author artist and speaker. She wrote her first poems at the early age of twelve and her first mystery story when she was sixteen years old....

12. Ángeles Mastretta (1949)

Mexican Writer

Ángeles Mastretta is a Mexican author and journalist. She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and political realities of Mexico in...

13. Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo (1950)

Mexican Writer

Dr. Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo was a Mexican writer whose work dealt mostly with the northern states of Mexico and the border. During his lifetime he was the Administrator of the...

14. Guillermo Sheridan (1950)

Mexican Writer

Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto is a Mexican literary critic scholar and public commentator.

15. Alberto Ruy Sánchez (1951)

Mexican Writer

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has...

16. Enrique Serna (1959)

Mexican Writer

Enrique Serna is a Mexican author and screenwriter. He is the author of two collections of short stories. The first one Amores de segunda mano is widely regarded as a...

17. Victoriano Salado Álvarez (1867)

Mexican Writer

Victoriano Salado Álvarez was a Mexican writer a prominent figure on the debate about Modernism in Mexican literature. Ha also was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico in 1911.

18. Eduardo Casar (1952)

Mexican Writer

Eduardo Casar González is a Mexican writer and professor of literature.

19. Susana Pagano (1968)

Mexican Writer

Susana Pagano is a narrator and an author of various novels and short stories. Susana Pagano studied at the Sociedad General de Escritores de Mexico the Mexican writers’ guild and...

20. Ignacio Padilla (1968)

Mexican Writer

Ignacio Padilla is a noted Mexican novelist and short story writer whose works have been translated into several languages. Padilla helped found the Crack Movement along with fellow Mexican writers...

21. Jorge Volpi (1968)

Mexican Writer

Jorge Luis Volpi Escalante is a Mexican author best known for his 1999 novel En busca de Klingsor.

22. Cecilia Eudave (1968)

Mexican Writer

Cecilia Eudave is a Mexican writer researcher and university professor. She is the author of 3 novels including La criatura del espejo El enigma de la esfera Pesadillas al mediodía....

23. Luis G. Abbadie (1968)

Mexican Writer

Luis G. Abbadie is a Mexican writer specializing in horror paganism pseudobibliographies and paramythologies including horror and fantasy short stories. He has contributed frequently to the Cthulhu Mythos. He has...

24. Mario Bellatin (1960)

Mexican Writer

Mario Bellatin is a Mexican novelist.

25. Felipe Montes (1961)

Mexican Writer

Montes is a Latin American writer. His literary creations the already published and those that are in process of creation gradually mold into one whole and huge work that grows...

26. Valeria Luiselli (1983)

Mexican Writer

Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the internationally acclaimed novel Faces in the Crowd. Luiselli’s short...

27. Mariano Azuela (1873)

Mexican Writer

Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican author and physician best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels works for theatre and literary criticism....

28. Martín Luis Guzmán (1887)

Mexican Writer

Martín Luis Guzmán Franco was a Mexican novelist and journalist.

29. Daniel Espartaco Sánchez (1977)

Mexican Writer

Daniel Espartaco Sánchez is a young mexican writer. His second issue of short stories Cosmonauta and his first novel Autos usados appeared in the best book of the year lists...

30. Alberto Chimal (1970)

Mexican Writer

Alberto Chimal is a Mexican writer. He also coordinates and teaches literary workshops and is an authority on the subject of literature on the Internet and digital writing. His book...

31. José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776)

Mexican Writer

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi Mexican writer and political journalist best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento translated as The Mangy Parrot in English reputed to be the...

32. José Juan Tablada (1871)

Mexican Writer

José Juan Tablada was a Mexican poet art critic and diplomat. Traveled briefly in Japan and later translated and wrote haiku introducing the poetic form to Spanish language readers.

33. Myriam Moscona (1955)

Mexican Writer

Myriam Moscona is a Mexican journalist translator and poet in Ladino and Spanish languages who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at Miami University. She was...

34. Ireneo Paz (Unknow)

Mexican Writer

Ireneo Paz Flores was a prominent Mexican intellectual writer and journalist who was also the grandfather of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz. He was born July 3 1836...

35. José Tlatelpas (Unknow)

Mexican Writer

Jose Tlatelpas is a Mexican poet essayist visual artist journalist publisher writer and political activist for civil rights. He lives in Mexico city and Vancouver Canada.

36. Jesús Gardea (1939)

Mexican Writer

Jesús Gardea Rocha was a Mexican writer of fiction and short fiction.

37. Francisco Monterde (1894)

Mexican Writer

sco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts and culture in...

38. Salvador Elizondo (1932)

Mexican Writer

Salvador Elizondo Alcalde was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè experimental intelligent style literature...

39. José Emilio Pacheco (1939)

Mexican Writer

José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet essayist novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the...

40. Rowena Bali (1977)

Mexican Writer

Rowena Bali is a Mexican writer. Bali studied dance drama and pantomime in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura in Mexico City. She studied Spanish language and literature...

41. Natalia Toledo (1968)

Mexican Writer

Natalia Toledo Paz is a Mexican poet in Spanish and Zapotec. She is daughter of the painter Francisco Toledo and sister of Dr Lakra. She studied in Casa de la...

42. Gabriel Zaid (1934)

Mexican Writer

Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer poet and intellectual. He was born in the city of Monterrey Nuevo León in 1934. He studied Engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He...

43. Julio Torri (1889)

Mexican Writer

Julio Torri Maynes was a Mexican writer and teacher who formed part of the Ateneo de la Juventud. He wrote principally in the essay form although his limited production included...

44. Rosario Sansores (1889)

Mexican Writer

Rosario Sansores was a Mexican poet and journalist.

45. Luis Felipe Lomelí (1975)

Mexican Writer

Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí is a Mexican writer and poet. He is best known for his flash fiction work El emigrante and for the collection Todos santos de California which...

46. Socorro Venegas (1972)

Mexican Writer

Socorro Venegas is an award-winning Mexican writer.