Costa Rica •
Joaquín García Monge •
Carmen Naranjo •
Oscar Núñez Oliva El Salvador •
Manlio Argueta, novelist •
Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary •
Jacinta Escudos, novelist •
Claudia Lars, poet •
Salarrué (Salvador Salazar Arrué), novelist, poet, painter
Guatemala •
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974),
Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1967) •
Marco Antonio Flores (1937–2013) •
Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003)
Honduras •
Óscar Acosta (1933–2014), poet and critic •
Ramón Amaya Amador (1916–1966), novelist and journalist •
Eduardo Bähr (born 1940) •
Augusto Coello (1884–1941) •
Julio Escoto (born 1944) •
Javier Abril Espinoza (born 1967) •
Lucila Gamero de Medina (1873–1964) •
Juan Ramón Molina (1875–1908), poet •
Leticia de Oyuela (1935–2008) •
Roberto Sosa (1930–2011), poet •
Juan Pablo Suazo Euceda (born 1972) •
Froylán Turcios (1874–1943)
Nicaragua priest and was one of the most famous
liberation theologians of the
Sandinista Regime. •
Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), poet, received the
Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006 •
Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), writer •
Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919–2014), political writer •
Gioconda Belli (born 1948), poet •
Tomás Borge (1930–2012), writer, poet, and essayist •
Omar Cabezas (born 1950), writer •
Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), poet •
Blanca Castellón (born 1958), poet •
José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994), poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, and historian •
Alfonso Cortés (1893–1969), poet •
Arturo Cruz (born 1954), writer •
Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002), poet •
Rubén Darío (1867–1916), poet, referred to as the "father of
Modernism" •
Karly Gaitán Morales (born 1980), film historian, and writer •
Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887–1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem •
Erwin Krüger (1915–1973), poet and composer •
Francisco Mayorga (born 1949), writer •
Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born 1971), writer, editor, and publisher •
Rosario Murillo (born 1951), poet •
Azarías H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet •
Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947), poet •
Horacio Peña (born 1946), writer and poet •
Sergio Ramírez (born 1942), writer •
Arlen Siu (died 1972), essayist •
Julio Valle Castillo (born 1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic •
Daisy Zamora (born 1950), poet
Panama •
Rosa María Britton, writer •
Gloria Guardia, novelist and essayist •
María Olimpia de Obaldía •
Ricardo Miró, poet •
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer and photographer ==Mexico==