1. Eliades Acosta (1959)

Cuban Writer

Eliades Acosta Matos is a Cuban politician the former director of Cuba’s Jose Marti National Library and currently head of the Committee on Culture on the Cuban Communist Party’s Central...

2. Dagoberto Valdés Hernández (1955)

Cuban Writer

Dagoberto Valdés Hernández is a Catholic intellectual and the editor and founder of Vitral and “Convivencia” magazines. In 1974 when he graduated from Senior High School he intended to study...

3. Leonardo Padura Fuentes (Unknow)

Cuban Writer

Leonardo Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007 he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages he is often...

4. Dionisio D. Martinez (1956)

Cuban Writer

Dionisio D. Martinez is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish raised first in Spain then in the United States. His work appeared in American Poetry Review Denver Quarterly...

5. Dolan Mor (1968)

Cuban Writer

Dolan Mor is a Cuban writer. In most of his works he plays with fictional art of poetry with false authorships change of identities or the use of diverse heteronyms....

6. Antonio Rodríguez Salvador (1960)

Cuban Writer

Antonio Rodríguez Salvador is a poet fiction writer dramatist and essayist. Salvador was born Taguasco Cuba. He graduated in Economics but teaches Composition and Style at José Martí University and...

7. Daína Chaviano (1960)

Cuban Writer

Daína Chaviano is a Cuban writer. She is considered one of the three most important female fantasy and science fiction writers in the Spanish language along with Angélica Gorodischer...

8. Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui (1868)

Cuban Writer

Gonzalo de Quesada was a key architect of Cuba's Independence Movement with José Martí during the late 19th century.

9. Wendy Guerra (1970)

Cuban Writer

Guerra is a Cuban poet and novelist. Guerra contributes to different magazines such as Encuentro La gaceta de Cuba and Nexos as well as visual arts magazines.

10. José Jacinto Milanés (1814)

Cuban Writer

José Jacinto Milanés y Fuentes a self-educated and from humble origins was a renowned poet linguist and writer who has been acclaimed as one of the best exponents of Cuban...

11. Carlos Baliño (1848)

Cuban Writer

Carlos Baliño was a Cuban writer born in Guanajay Cuba. His early writings were poetry and prose. By 1869 his writings had gained notability for their anti-colonial and pro-independence inclinations;...

12. Regino Pedroso (1896)

Cuban Writer

Regino Pedroso was a Cuban poet. He won the National Poetry Prize of Cuba in 1939 for his book sings Beyond the sea. That same year published his poetic Anthology.

13. Cintio Vitier (1921)

Cuban Writer

Cintio Vitier was a Cuban poet essayist and novelist. Upon winning the Juan Rulfo Prize the award jury called him one of the most important writers of his generation.

14. José Joaquín Palma (1844)

Cuban Writer

Jose Joaquin Palma.

15. Nivaria Tejera (1929)

Cuban Writer

Nivaria Tejera is a Cuban poet and novelist. She was awarded the Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve prize in 1971 for her novel Sonámbulo del sol. Tejera currently lives in Paris.

16. Gian Luigi Nespoli (Unknow)

Cuban Writer

Gian Luigi Nespoli was an Italian born Cuban poet writer and translator.

17. José Zacarías Tallet (1893)

Cuban Writer

José Zacarías Tallet was a Cuban writer. He was born in Matanzas and died in Havana. He won the National Literary Prize in 1984.

18. Ana Rosa Núñez (1926)

Cuban Writer

Ana Rosa Núñez was a Cuban-American poet and librarian. She authored over two dozen books of poetry prose and translations.

19. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814)

Cuban Writer

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer.

20. José María Heredia y Heredia (1803)

Cuban Writer

José María Heredia y Heredia was a Cuban poet born at Santiago de Cuba. He studied at the University of Havana and was called to the bar in 1823. In...

21. Nancy Morejón (1944)

Cuban Writer

She graduated with honors at the University of Havana having studied Caribbean and French Literature and she is fluent in French English. She later taught French. She is a well-regarded...

22. Gilda Antonia Guillen (Unknow)

Cuban Writer

Gilda Antonia Guillén was a Cuban writer and poet. Born in La Habana in her youth she quit her nursing career and became an ardent anarchist whom rebelled against communism...

23. Cirilo Villaverde (1812)

Cuban Writer

Cirilo Villaverde was a Cuban poet novelist journalist and freedom fighter. Born to a doctor on a sugar plantation Villaverde was able to witness slavery and all of its evils...

24. Virgilio Piñera (1912)

Cuban Writer

Virgilio Piñera Llera was a Cuban author playwright poet short-story writer and essayist. Among his most famous poems are La isla en peso and La gran puta. He was a...

25. Carlos Franqui (1921)

Cuban Writer

Carlos Franqui was a Cuban writer poet journalist art critic and political activist. After the Fulgencio Batista coup in 1952 he became involved with the Movimiento 26 de Julio which...

26. Miguel Barnet (1940)

Cuban Writer

Miguel Angel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana under Fernando Ortiz the pioneer of Cuban anthropology whose studies of...

27. Pablo Armando Fernández (1929)

Cuban Writer

Pablo Armando Fernández is a Cuban poet novelist essayist and playwright. In 1996 he was award the National Prize for Literature Cuba's national literary award and most important award of...

28. Manuel Vázquez Portal (Unknow)

Cuban Writer

Manuel Vázquez Portal is an award-winning Cuban poet writer and journalist known for his 2003 imprisonment.

29. Mireya Robles (1934)

Cuban Writer

Mireya Robles is an award-winning Cuban American writer and literary critic. Robles was born in Guantánamo she was educated in Cuba where she attended the Institute of Guantánamo and the...

30. Emilio Bobadilla (1862)

Cuban Writer

Emilio Bobadilla was a Cuban writer poet literary critic and journalist. He also wrote under the pseudonym Fray Candil.

31. Gastón Baquero (Unknow)

Cuban Writer

Gastón Baquero was a Cuban poet and writer.

32. Severo Sarduy (1937)

Cuban Writer

Severo Sarduy was a Cuban poet author playwright and critic of Cuban literature and art.

33. Manuel Navarro Luna (1894)

Cuban Writer

Manuel Navarro Luna was a Cuban poet.

34. Silvestre de Balboa (1563)

Cuban Writer

Silvestre de Balboa Troya Quesada was a Canary writer considered author of the first literary text in Cuba. Very little information is known of him among which is his baptism...

35. Zoé Valdés (Unknow)

Cuban Writer

Zoé Valdés is a Cuban writer. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988 she worked for the Delegación de...

36. Dulce María Loynaz (1902)

Cuban Writer

Dulce María Loynaz was a Cuban poet.

37. Yanitzia Canetti (1967)

Cuban Writer

Yanitzia Canetti is a Cuban author translator and editor. Her published works include three novels a collection of narrative short stories and over 200 children's books. She has also translated...