List of Cuban American writers
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- Iván Acosta, playwright, works indlude El Super (movie version 1979) and Un cubiche en la luna (1989)[1]
- Mercedes de Acosta, poet, playwright
- Reinaldo Arenas, poet, author
- Octavio Armand, poet[1]
- Lourdes Casal, poet[1]
- Migdia Chinea-Varela, screenwriter, essayist
- Nilo Cruz, playwright, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Carmen Agra Deedy, children's books author
- Frank Fernández, anarchist, author of exile-related themes
- Roberto G. Fernández, novelist
- Sean Ferrer, author (son of actors Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer)
- María Irene Fornés, playwright
- Paula Fox, author, winner of Hans Christian Andersen Medal, biological grandmother of musician Courtney Love
- Cristina García, novelist
- Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, mystery novelist and descendant of Cuban independence patriot Francisco Vicente Aguilera[2]
- Celedonio González, novelist; works include Los primos (1971) and Los cuatro embajadores (1973)[1]
- Evelio Grillo
- Juan Gerardo Hernandez, author ( books "Cuban, That's All" and "More Cuban, That's All")
- Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
- Eduardo Machado
- José Martí
- Pablo Medina, poet[1]
- 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, author[3]
- Lino Novás Calvo, novelist; works include Maneras de contar (1970)[1]
- Achy Obejas, novelist
- Dolores Prida, playwright; English-language works include those collected in Beautiful Señoritas and Other Plays (1991)[1]
- Jorge Reyes, memoirist, short-story writer, poet, children's books
- Isel Rivero, poet[1]
- Antonio Sacre, children's books, playwright
- José Sánchez-Boudy, poet[1]
- Virgil Suárez, novelist, poet and anthologist
- Piri Thomas, author (memoir Down These Mean Streets)
- Omar Torres, novelist; works include Apenas un bolero (1981), Al partir (1986), and Fallen Angels Sing (1991)[1]
- Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, writer (The Dirty Girls Social Club)
- José Yglesias, novelist and playwright, author of A Wake in Ybor City, Double Double, The Guns in the Closet and other works
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[edit] External references
- Marc Zimmerman, U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.
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