List of Peruvian writers
This is a list of Peruvian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
- Martín Adán, poet
- Ciro Alegría, indigenous novelist
- Marie Arana, Peruvian-American novelist, biographer, journalist
- José María Arguedas, indigenous novelist and poet
- Federico Barreto, poet
- Jaime Bayly, contemporary novelist
- Michael Bentine, Anglo-Peruvian comedian
- Alfredo Bryce Echenique, novelist
- Guillermo Carnero Hoke, writer and journalist
- Carlos Castaneda, literary anthropologist
- Gamaliel Churata, socialist essayist and journalist
- José María Eguren, poet
- Jorge Eduardo Eielson, poet
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, chronicler
- Manuel González Prada, modernista poet
- Eduardo González Viaña, short story writer and novelist
- Javier Heraud, poet and would-be guerilla
- Rodolfo Hinostroza, influential poet, writer, novelist and essayist
- Luis Jochamowitz, journalist and biographer
- José Carlos Mariátegui, socialist essayist and journalist
- Jose Luis Mejia, poet, novelist
- Gloria Macher Peruvian Canadian writer
- Clorinda Matto de Turner, novelist
- Angélica Palma, writer, journalist and biographer
- Clemente Palma, writer of fantastic and horror fiction
- Ricardo Palma, folklorist
- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, indigenous chronicler
- Santiago Roncagliolo, writer, scriptwriter, translator and journalist.
- Julio Ramón Ribeyro, short story writer
- Isabel Sabogal, novelist, poet and translator
- Sebastián Salazar Bondy, essayist and poet
- José Santos Chocano, poet
- Manuel Scorza, novelist and poet
- Hernando de Soto , economist and essayist
- Carlos Thorne Boas, novelist, writer and lawyer
- Álvaro Torres-Calderón, poet
- Abraham Valdelomar
- Blanca Varela, poet
- Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist of the Latin American Boom
- Virginia Vargas, sociologist
- Cesar Vallejo, influential poet, writer, journalist
- José Watanabe, poet
