The following are some famous writers in Bolivia. You can read about more famous Bolivians by visiting our Famous People from Bolivia home page where you'll find many other categories. You can also ask questions about any famous Bolivian person or add another famous person from Bolivia to our list.

Edmundo Paz Soldán
A writer, born in Cochabamba in 1967, he is one of the most awarded contemporary Bolivian writers at the national level, and receives accolades overseas as well. His works, which include novels and short stories, have been translated into several other languages from Spanish, the language in which he continues to write, despite having lived for several decades in the United States where he is a literature professor at Cornell University.

Eduardo Scott-Moreno
A writer, lawyer, and business manager born in Cochabamba. He has worked more in business management than literature, yet the quality of his works is outstanding. He is the only contemporary writer to have twice won the National Prize for Novels, the country’s highest literary award: in 2004 and in 2010.

Giovanna Rivero
A writer born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1972. she is the most outstanding contemporary Santa Cruz writer and her works have been included in anthologies prepared overseas and translated into several languages. She won the National Prize for Novels in 1997.

Adolfo Costa du Rels
A writer and diplomat, born in Sucre. He studied writing in French universities. As a diplomat he represented Bolivia in various European countries and also before the United Nations. He was also a member of the Argentine and Bolivian history societies. He is the only Bolivian writer to have received a Legion of Honor award, given him by the government of France. He died in 1980.

Antonio Díaz Villamil
A novelist and historian, he was born in La Paz. His novels, strongly inspired by costumbrism, contain critiques of Bolivian society during his era and denounce the social evils of the times. Because of this, today his novels are often used for literary analysis in national high schools. He died in 1948.

Adela Zamudio
A poet and educator from Cochabamba, and the first woman to dedicate herself to writing during an era when it wasn’t popular. She taught young women and created schools or art, all of them secular and the first of their kinds, because at the time education was dependent upon the Church. Notably feminist in ideology, her poems are realist and critique the oppression of women that was common at the time. She died in 1928.

Ricardo Jaimes Freyre
A poet and journalist born in Tacna (Peru), his father was a diplomat from Potosí, Bolivia. He is the founder and greatest national exponent of the Modernist trend in poetry. Along with another famous poet, Rubén Dario, he founded a poetry magazine in Argentina where he lived most of his life. Upon returning to Bolivia, he worked as a university professor and government employee. He died in 1933.

Maria Josefa Mujia
A poet born in Sucre, she initiated the Romantic style in Bolivia. Her works are filled with sensitivity and melancholy, perhaps because she was blind since childhood, and this is what makes her work especially notable. She died in 1888.

Alcides Arguedas
A writer, political scientist and diplomat born in La Paz. He worked as a diplomat in Europe and South America, in addition to writing columns in various La Paz newspapers. His critiques of society and government, reflected in his masterpiece “Pueblo Enfermo”, earned him the antipathy of the political classes of his time. He died in 1946.