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This is a list of Peruvian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
- Martín Adán (1908-1985), poet
- Ciro Alegría (1909-1967), indigenista novelist
- José María Arguedas (1911-1969), indigenista novelist and poet
- Jaime Bayly (1965-), contemporary novelist
- Michael Bentine (1922-1996), Anglo-Peruvian comedian
- Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1939-), novelist, author of Un mundo para Julius
- Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1845-1909), novelist and essayist
- Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998), literary anthropologist
- José María Eguren (1874-1942), poet
- Carolina Freire de Jaimes (1844-1916), novelist
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (c.1539-1616), chronicler
- Manuel González Prada (1844-1918), modernista poet
- Eduardo González Viaña (1941-), short story writer and novelist
- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, indigenous chronicler
- Javier Heraud (1942-1963), poet and would-be guerrilla
- Luis Jochamowitz (1953-), journalist and biographer
- José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), socialist essayist and journalist
- Clorinda Matto de Turner (1853-1909), indigenista novelist, author of Aves sin nido
- Ricardo Palma (1833-1919), folkorist
- Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929-1994), short story writer
- Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924-1964), essayist and poet
- José Santos Chocano (1875-1934), poet
- Javier Sologuren (1921-2004), poet and essayist
- Hernando de Soto (economist) (1941-), economist and essayist
- Abraham Valdelomar (1888-1919)
- César Vallejo (1892-1938), influential poet
- Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-), novelist of the Latin American Boom
- José Watanabe (1946-2007), poet
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