Roberto Arlt
- Born: 07 APR 1900 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 26 JUL 1942 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Prose writer, journalist, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Carlos Barbarito
- Born: 06 FEB 1955 – Pergamino, Buenos Aires
- Died:
- Type: Poet, essayist
- Achievements:
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- Gran Premio Libertad
- Prize Bienal de Crítica de Arte Jorge Feinsilber
- Prize César Tiempo
- Prize Concurso Régimen de Fomento a la Producción Literaria Nacional y Estímulo a la Industrial Editorial, Fondo Nacional de las Artes
- Prize Foundation Alejandro González Gattone
- Prize Francisco López Merino
- Prize Fundación Argentina para la Poesía
- Prize Raúl Gustavo Aguirre of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores
- Prize Tierras Planas
- Aldolfo Bioy Casares
- Born: 15 SEP 1914 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- City of Buenos Aires Municipal Prize (1941)
- National Literary Prize (1969)
- Argentine Society of Writers Grand Prize of Honor (1975)
- Mondello Prize (1984)
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1990)
- Member of the Légion d’Honneur (1981)
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Born: 14 AUG 1899 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 14 JUN 1986 – Geneva, Switzerland
- Type: Prose writer, poet
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires Municipal Prize (1928)
- Argentine Writers Society Prize (1945)
- National Prize for Literature (1957)
- Prix Formentor (1961)
- Bienal Foundation Inter-American Prize (1970)
- Jerusalem Prize (1971)
- Alfonso Reyes Prize (1973)
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1979)
- Eugenio Cambaceres
- Born: 24 FEB 1843 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 14 JUN 1889 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Novelist
- Achievements:
- Julio Cortázar
- Born: 26 AUG 1914 – Brussels, Belgium
- Died: 12 FEB 1984 – Paris, France
- Type: Argentine prose writer
- Achievements:
- Médicis Prize (France, 1974)
- Rubén Dario Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1983)
- Esteban Echeverría (José Esteban Antonio Echeverría)
- Born: 02 SEP 1805 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 19 JAN 1851
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Macedonio Fernández
- Born: 01 JUN 1874 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 10 DEC 1952
- Type: Experimental prose writer
- Achievements:
- Manuel Gálvez
- Born: 18 JUL 1882 – Paraná, Argentina
- Died: 14 NOV 1962 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist, poet
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires Municipal Prize (1919)
- Griselda Gambaro
- Born: 28 JUL 1928 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Dramatist, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Emecé Prize (1965)
- Revista Teatro XX Prize (1965)
- Guggenheim Award (1982)
- Four unnamed prizes for the play El Campo (1968)
- Juan Gelman
- Born: 03 MAY 1930 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- International Mondello Poetry Prize (1980)
- Mempo Giardinelli
- Born: 02 JUL 1947 – Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Mexican National Prize (1983)
- Rómulo Galleges Prize (1993)
- Oliverio Girondo
- Born: 17 AUG 1891 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 24 JAN 1967 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Co-founder of the magazine Martín Fierro (1924)
- Alberto Girri
- Born: 27 NOV 1919 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? 1991
- Type: Poet, literary translator
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Poetry (1955)
- National Prize for Poetry (1967)
- Gran Premio de la Fundación Argentina para la Poesía (1976)
- Juana Manuela Gorriti
- Born: 15 JUN 1818 – Horcones Ranch, Salta, Argentina
- Died: 06 NOV 1892 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Prose writer, feminist
- Achievements:
- Founded the newspaper La Alborada (????)
- Ricardo Güiraldes
- Born: 13 FEB 1886 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 08 OCT 8, 1927 – Paris, France
- Type: Prose writer, poet
- Achievements:
- National Prize for Literature (1926)
- José Hernández
- Born: 10 NOV 1834 – Caserío de Perdriel, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: 21 OCT 1886
- Type: Writer, politician
- Achievements:
- Norah Lange
- Born: 23 OCT 1906 – ??, Argentina
- Died: 06 AUG 1972
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires Literary Prize (1937)
- Enrique Larreta
- Born: 04 MAR 1873 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 06 JUL 1961 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1949)
- Grand Cross of Alfonso the Wise (?)
- Legion of Honor Award (?)
- Grand Cross of Isabel the Catholic (?)
- Leopoldo Lugones
- Born: 13 JUN 1874 – Córdoba province, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? 1938
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Eduardo Mallea
- Born: 14 AUG 1903 – Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: 14 AUG 1982 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Elected to the Argentine Academy of Letters (1960)
- Leopoldo Marechal
- Born: 11 JUN 1900 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 26 JUN 1970
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires Prize (1929)
- National Poetry Prize (1940)
- José Mármol
- Born: 02 DEC 1817 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 09 AUG 1871 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Prose writer, poet
- Achievements:
- Director of the National Library (1858-1871)
- Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
- Born: 14 SEP 1895 – San Juan de la Esquina, Sante Fe Province, Argentina
- Died: 03 NOV 1964 – Bahía Blanca
- Type: Essayist, poet
- Achievements:
- Silvina Ocampo
- Born: ?? ??? 1903 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? SEP 1993
- Type: Prose writer, poet, literary translator
- Achievements:
- Municipal Prize for Poetry (1945)
- National Poetry Prize (1962)
- Club de los XIII Prize (1988)
- Victoria Ocampo
- Born: 07 APR 1890 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 27 JAN 1979
- Type: Writer, patron of culture
- Achievements:
- First woman to be admitted to the Argentine Academy of Letters (1977)
- Olga Orozco
- Born: 17 MAR 1920 – Toay, La Pampa, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Argentine Association of Poetry Prize (1971)
- National Arts Prize (1980)
- Premio Fundación Alfredo Fortabal (1987)
- Argentine Writers Society Prize (1989)
- University of Turin Laurel Wreath (1989)
- Juan L. Ortiz
- Born: 11 JUN 1896 – Puerto Ruiz, Entre Rios, Argentina
- Died: 02 SEP 1978
- Type: Poet
- Achievements:
- Argentine Poetry Foundation Prize of Honor (1976)
- Municipality of Gualeguay Minuán de Oro (1976)
- Ricardo Piglia (Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi)
- Born: 24 NOV 1941 – Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Boris Vian Prize (????)
- Alejandra Pizarnik (Flora Alejandra Pizarnik)
- Born: 16 APR 1936 – Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: 26 SEP 1972
- Type: Poet, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires First Prize for Poetry (1966)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1969)
- Fulbright Award (1971)
- Abel Posse
- Born: ?? ??? 1936 – Córdoba, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Triennial National Prize (1969-1971)
- Argentine National Prize for Literature (?)
- Rómulo Galleges Prize (Venezuela, 1987)
- Manuel Puig
- Born: 28 DEC 1932 – General Villegas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: 22 JUL 1990 – Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Curzio Malaparte Prize (Italy, 1966)
- San Sebastian Festival Jury Prize (1978)
- Manuel Rojas
- Born: 08 JAN 1896 – Buenos Aires
- Died: 11 MAR 1973
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- President of the Society of Chilean Writers (1937)
- Director of Anales de la Universidad de Chile (1951)
- Hosted TV program Jurado Literario (Literary Jury) (?)
- National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1957)
- Ernesto Sábato
- Born: 24 JUN 1911 – Rojas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Argentine Association for the Progress of Science Fellowship (1937)
- Buenos Aires Municipal Prize (1945)
- Institute of Foreign Relations Prize (West Germany, 1973)
- Consagración Nacional Prize (1974)
- Argentine Society of Writers’ Prize of Honour (1974)
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France, 1977)
- Gran Cruz al Mérito Civil (Spain, 1979)
- Gabriela Mistral Prize (1984)
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1985)
- Jerusalem Prize (1989)
- Juan José Saer
- Born: 28 JUN 1937 – Serodino, Sante Fe Province, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, poet
- Achievements:
- Nadal Prize (1987)
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- Born: 15 FEB 1811 – San Juan, Argentina
- Died: 11 SEP 1888 – Asunción, Paraguay
- Type: Politician, educator, man of letters
- Achievements:
- Governor of San Juan Province (1862-1864)
- President of Argentina (1868-1874)
- Osvaldo Soriano
- Born: ?? APR 1943 – Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer Achievements:
- Film version of his novel No habrámás pena ni olvido won the Silver Bear Prize (Berlin Film Festival, c.1983)
- Alfonsina Storni
- Born: 29 MAY 1892 – Sala Capriasca, Switzerland
- Died: 25 OCT 1938 – Buenos Aires
- Type: Argentine poet
- Achievements:
- Buenos Aires Municipal Prize (1920)
- Luisa Valenzuela
- Born: 26 NOV 1938 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Fondo Nacional de las Artes Award (1966, 1973)
- Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía Award (1973)
- Fulbright Fellowship (1969-1970)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1983)
- David Viñas (used pseudonym Raquel Weinbaum when writing for the press)
- Born: 28 JUL 1929 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- National Prize for Literature (1962, 1971)
- Casa de las Américas Prize (1967)
- Argentine Critics’ Prize (1970, 1973)
- National Theatre Prize (1972)
- María Elena Walsh
- Born: 01 FEB 1930 – Buenos Aires
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet, prose writer, author of children’s literature
- Achievements: