- José Agustín (José Agustín Ramirez Gómez)
- Born: 19 AUG 1944 – Huatla, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Prize (1974)
- Colino Prize (1982)
- Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
- Born: 11 NOV 1834 – Tixtla (Ciudad Guerrero), Guerrero, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? 1893) – Europe
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Juan José Arreola
- Born: 12 SEP 1918 – Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Institute of Fine Arts Drama Festival Prize (late 1940s)
- El Colegio de México Fellowship (late 1940s)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1963)
- Mariano Azuela
- Born: 01 JAN 1873 – Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico
- Died: 01 MAR 1952 – Mexico City
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist, critic
- Achievements:
- Co-founder of the Colegio Nacional (1943)
- Premio de Letras (1940)
- Nellie Campobello
- Born: 11 NOV 1913 – Villa Ocampo, Durango, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, poet
- Achievements:
- Rosario Castellanos
- Born: 25 MAY 1925 – Mexico City
- Died: 07 AUG 1974
- Type: Poet, dramatist, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Director of Chiapas cultural programmes (1951-1953)
- Director El Teatro Guiñol for the National Indigenist Institute (San Cristóbal, Chiapas 1956-1959)
- Mexican Critics Award (1957)
- Chiapas Prize (1958)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1961)
- Woman of the Year (Mexico, 1967)
- Salvador Elizondo
- Born: 19 DEC 1932 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Member of the Mexican Academy of the Language (since 1976)
- Member of the Colegio Nacional (since 1981)
- Villaurrutia Prize (1965)
- Laura Esquivel
- Born: ?? ??? 1950 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Novelist
- Achievements:
- Woman of the Year (Mexico, 1992)
- American Booksellers Book of the Year (1994 – the first time it was ever awarded to a non-US citizen)
- José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
- Born: 15 NOV 1776 – Mexico City
- Died: 27 JUN 1827 – Mexico City
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Founded El Pensador Mexicano (1912) and adopted that pseudonym when writing for the press
- Carlos Fuentes
- Born: 11 NOV 1928 – Panama City, Panama
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Mexican prose writer
- Achievements:
- Member of El Colegio Nacional (since 1974)
- Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (since 1986)
- Mexican Writers’ Center Fellowship (1956)
- Biblioteca Breve Prize (1967)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1975)
- Rómulos Gallegos Prize (Venezuela, 1977)
- Alfonso Reyes Prize (1979)
- National Award for Literature (Mexico, 1984)
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1987)
- Rubén Darío Prize (1988)
- Instituto Italo-Latino-Americano Prize (1988)
- New York City National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1988)
- Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1988)
- Juan García Ponce
- Born: 22 SEP 1932 – Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Editor of numerous journals including Universidad de México (1958-1966)
- Founder of Diagonales (1985)
- Literary Prize of Mexico City (1956)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1972)
- National Prize for Literature (1989)
- Great Cross of Honor (Austria, 1987)
- Elena Garro
- Born: 15 DEC 1920 – Puebla, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Xavier Villarrutia Prize (1964)
- Margo Glantz
- Born: 26 JAN 26, 1930 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer, critic, literary translator
- Achievements:
- Premio Villaurrutia (1984)
- José Gorostiza
- Born: 10 NOV 1901 – Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
- Died: 16 MAR 1979 – Mexico City
- Type: Poet, critic
- Achievements:
- National Literary Prize (1968)
- Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
- Born: 22 DEC 1859 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? 1895
- Type: Poet, journalist
- Achievements:
- Martín Luis Guzmán
- Born: 06 OCT 1887 – Chihuahua, Mexico
- Died: 22 DEC 1976 – Mexico City
- Type: Novelist, essayist, journalist
- Achievements:
- Manuel Avila Camacho Prize (1958)
- National Prize for Literature (1958)
- Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- Born: 22 JAN 1928 – Guanajuato, Mexico
- Died: 27 NOV 1983 – Spain, in a plane crash with three other authors (one Peruvian, two Spanish)
- Type: Prose writer, dramatist
- Achievements:
- Casa de las Américas (1963, 1964)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Ramirez de Asbaje [or Asuaje])
- Born: 12 NOV 1651 – San Miguel de Nepantla, New Spain (now Mexico)
- Died: 17 APR 1695
- Type: Writer, woman of ideas
- Achievements:
- Ramón López Velarde
- Born: 15 JUN 1888 – Jeréz (formerly Ciudad Garcia), Zacatecas, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? 1921 – Mexico City
- Type: Poet, essayist
- Achievements:
- José Emilio Pacheco
- Born: 30 JUN 1939 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet, prose writer, translator
- Achievements:
- Enrique Lihn Prize (1966)
- Magda Donato Prize (1968)
- National Poetry Prize (1969)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1970)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1973)
- Elected to Colegio Nacional (1986)
- Fernando del Paso
- Born: 19 APR 1935 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1970)
- Xavier Villarrutia Prize (1966)
- Prix du Meilleur Roman Etranger (France, 1975)
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize (Venezuela, 1977)
- Octavio Paz
- Born: 31 MAR 1914 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Poet, prose writer, literary translator
- Achievements:
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1944)
- International Grand Prize for Poetry (Belgium, 1963)
- City of Jerusalem Prize (1977)
- Grande Aigle d’Or (Nice, 1979)
- Neustadt International Prize (1982)
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1982)
- Federation of German Book Trade Peace Prize (1984)
- Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio (1986)
- Nobel Prize for Literature (1990)
- Sergio Pitol
- Born: 18 MAR 1933 – Puebla, Mexico
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Head of Cultural Affaifs in the Ministry of Foreign Relations (1981)
- Head of International Affairs in the National Institute of Fine Arts (1982)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1982)
- Herralde Prize for the Novel (Barcelona, 1984)
- Grand Prize of the European Cultural Association (Poland, 1987)
- Elena Poniatowska
- Born: 19 MAY 1933 – Paris, France
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Mexican prose writer
- Achievements:
- Co-founded Editorial Siglo XXI, Cinteca Nacional (????)
- Centro de Escritores Fellowship (1957)
- Mazatlán Prize (1970)
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1970 – refused)
- Revista Siempri Prize (1973)
- National Journalism Prize (1979)
- Alfonso Reyes
- Born: 17 MAY 1889 – Monterrey, Mexico
- Died: 27 DEC 1959
- Type: Prose writer, scholar, poet, literary translator
- Achievements:
- Appointed Director Colegio de Mexico (c.1939)
- Helped establish Colegio Nacional (1945)
- Elected Director of the Mexican Academy of the Language (1957)
- National Prize for Literature (1945)
- Juan Rulfo
- Born: 16 MAY 1918 – Apulco, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Died: 07 JAN 1986 – Mexico City
- Type: Prose writer
- Achievements:
- Co-founder of the literary review Pan (1944)
- Elected member of the Mexican Academy of Letters (1980)
- National Literature Prize (1970)
- Príncipe de Asturias Prize (Spain, 1983)
- Gustavo Sainz
- Born: 13 JUL 1940 – Mexico City
- Died: ?? ??? ????
- Type: Novelist
- Achievements:
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1974)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1976)
- Tinker Fellowship (1980)
- José Juan Tablada
- Born: 03 APR 1871 – Mexico City
- Died: 02 AUG 1945 – New York City
- Type: Prose writer, poet, art critic, literary translator
- Achievements:
- Editor-in-chief of El Imparcial (1912-1913)
- Editor of Mexican Art and Life (New York, ????)
- Rodolfo Usigli
- Born: 17 NOV 1905 – Mexico City
- Died: 08 JUNE 1979 – Mexico City
- Type: Dramatist
- Achievements:
- Rockefeller Scholarship (1935-1936)
- José Vasconcelos
- Born: 28 FEB 1882 – Oaxaca, Mexico
- Died: 30 JUN 1959 – Mexico City
- Type: Essayist, educator, politician
- Achievements:
- Director of the National Library (?)
- Director of the Library of Mexico (?)
- Founding member of El Colegio de México (?)
- Xavier Villaurrutia
- Born: 27 MAR 1903 – Mexico City
- Died: 25 DEC 1950 – Mexico City
- Type: Poet, dramatist, prose writer
- Achievements:
- Rockefeller Scholarship (1935-1936)
- A prestigious literary prize bears his name and was established after his death.
- Agustín Yáñez
- Born: 04 APR 1904 – Guadalajara, Mexico
- Died: 17 JAN 1980 – Mexico City
- Type: Prose writer, journalist
- Achievements:
- His book Al Filo del Agua (1947) became required reading in state schools.
- Born: 19 AUG 1944 – Huatla, Oaxaca, Mexico
