List of Cuban-American writers

This is a list of the most notable Cuban-American writers.

List

• Iván Acosta, playwright, works include El Super (movie version 1979) and Un cubiche en la luna (1989)^[1]
• Valentina L. Garza
• Mercedes de Acosta
• Reinaldo Arenas
• René Ariza
• Octavio Armand, poet^[1]
• Joaquín Badajoz, poet, author, essayist (North American Academy of the Spanish Language, fellow member)
• Ruth Behar
• Richard Blanco - American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer.
• Rafael Campo - physician and author
• Lourdes Casal, poet^[1]
• Migdia Chinea-Varela
• Nilo Cruz
• Carmen Agra Deedy
• Miguel A. De La Torre
• Carlos Pintado, author, playwright and award-winning poet of Sant Jordi Internatioanal Prize for Poetry.
• Carlos Eire
• Frank Fernández
• Roberto G. Fernández
• María Irene Fornés
• Paula Fox
• Yosie Crespo, poet, author.
• Alfredo Franco
• Cristina García
• Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
• Ibis Gómez-Vega, novelist
• Celedonio González, novelist; works include Los primos (1971) and Los cuatro embajadores (1973)^[1]
• Oscar Hijuelos
• Alicia Juarrero, author, philosopher. works include Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press 1999)
• Robert Lima, poet, playwright and literary critic; grandson of Cuban patriot Col. Alfredo Lima Tardiff
• Eduardo Machado
• Alex Abella, mystery/crime novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist
• José Martí
• Pablo Medina, poet^[1]
• Ana Menéndez
• Matías Montes Huidobro, novelist; works include Desterrados al fuego (1975)^[1]
• Elías Miguel Muñoz, poet and novelist, author of Crazy Love (1988) and The Greatest Performance (1991), as well as works in Spanish^[1]
• Anaïs Nin
• Lino Novás Calvo, novelist; works include Maneras de contar (1970)^[1]
• Achy Obejas
• Dolores Prida, playwright; English-language works include those collected in Beautiful Señoritas and Other Plays (1991)^[1]
• Manuel Pereiras García
• Jorge Reyes
• Isel Rivero, poet^[1]
• Antonio Sacre
• José Sánchez-Boudy, poet^[1]
• Virgil Suárez
• Piri Thomas
• Omar Torres, novelist; works include Apenas un bolero (1981), Al partir (novel) (1986), and Fallen Angels Sing (1991)^[1]
• Carmelita Tropicana
• Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
• Charlie Vázquez
• José Yglesias
• Yanitzia Canetti

See also

• List of Cuban Americans
• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Before Columbus Foundation

References

External references

• Marc Zimmerman, U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.