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Martín Adán (1908–1985), poet
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Ciro Alegría (1909–1967), indigenist novelist
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Marie Arana (born 1949), Peruvian-American novelist, biographer, journalist
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José María Arguedas (1911–1969), indigenist novelist and poet
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Federico Barreto (1862–1929), poet
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Jaime Bayly (born 1965), contemporary novelist
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Michael Bentine (1922–1996), Anglo-Peruvian comedian
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born 1939), novelist
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Guillermo Carnero Hoke (1917–1985), writer and journalist
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Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998), literary anthropologist
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Gamaliel Churata (1897–1957), socialist essayist and journalist
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José María Eguren (1874–1942), poet
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Jorge Eduardo Eielson (1924–2006), poet
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1539–1616), the first mestizo chronicler
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Manuel González Prada (1844–1918), modernista poet
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Eduardo González Viaña (born 1941), short story writer and novelist
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Javier Heraud (1942–1963), poet and guerrillero
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Rodolfo Hinostroza (born 1941), influential poet, writer, novelist and essayist
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Luis Jochamowitz (born 1953), journalist and biographer
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José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), socialist essayist and journalist
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Jose Luis Mejia (born 1969), poet, novelist
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Gloria Macher Peruvian Canadian writer
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Clorinda Matto de Turner (1853–1909), novelist
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Angélica Palma (1878–1935), writer, journalist and biographer
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Clemente Palma (1872–1946), writer of fantastic and horror fiction
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Ricardo Palma (1833–1919), folklorist
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, indigenous chronicler
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Santiago Roncagliolo (born 1975), writer, scriptwriter, translator and journalist
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Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994), short story writer
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Isabel Sabogal (born 1958), novelist, poet and translator
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Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924–1964), essayist and poet
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José Santos Chocano (1875–1934), poet
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Manuel Scorza (1928–1983), novelist and poet
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Hernando de Soto (economist) (born 1941), economist and essayist
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Carlos Thorne Boas (born 1923), novelist, writer and lawyer
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Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), poet
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Abraham Valdelomar (1888–1919)
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Blanca Varela (1926–2009), poet
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Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist of the Latin American Boom
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Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist
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Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938), influential poet, writer, journalist
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José Watanabe (1946–2007), poet
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