Editing List of Peruvians (section)

==Writers==
{{main article|List of Peruvian writers}}
* [[Martín Adán]] (1908–1985), poet
* [[Katya Adaui]] (born 1977), novelist
* [[Ciro Alegría]] (1909–1967), indigenous novelist
* [[Marie Arana]] (born 1949), Peruvian-American novelist, biographer, journalist
* [[José María Arguedas]] (1911–1969), indigenous novelist and poet
* [[Federico Barreto]] (1862–1929), poet
* [[Jaime Bayly]] (born 1965), contemporary novelist
* [[Michael Bentine]] (1922–1996), Anglo-Peruvian comedian
* [[Alfredo Bryce Echenique]] (born 1939), novelist
* [[Guillermo Carnero Hoke]] (1917–1985), writer and journalist
* [[Carlos Castaneda]] (1925–1998), literary anthropologist
* [[Gamaliel Churata]] (1897–1957), socialist essayist and journalist
* [[José María Eguren]] (1874–1942), poet
* [[Jorge Eduardo Eielson]] (1924–2006), poet
* [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]] (c. 1539–1616), chronicler
* [[Manuel González Prada]] (1844–1918), [[modernismo|modernista]] poet
* [[Eduardo González Viaña]] (born 1941), short story writer and novelist
* [[Javier Heraud]] (1942–1963), poet and would-be guerrilla
* [[Rodolfo Hinostroza]] (born 1941), influential poet, writer, novelist and essayist
* [[Luis Jochamowitz]] (born 1953), journalist and biographer
* [[José Carlos Mariátegui]] (1894–1930), socialist essayist and journalist
* [[Jose Luis Mejía]] (born 1969), poet, novelist
* [[Gloria Macher]] Peruvian Canadian writer
* [[Clorinda Matto de Turner]] (1853–1909), novelist
* [[Angélica Palma]] (1878–1935), writer, journalist and biographer
* [[Clemente Palma]] (1872–1946). writer of fantastic and horror fiction 
* [[Ricardo Palma]] (1833–1919), folklorist
* [[Guaman Poma|Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala]], indigenous chronicler
* [[Santiago Roncagliolo]] (born 1975), writer, scriptwriter, translator and journalist.
* [[Julio Ramón Ribeyro]] (1929–1994), short story writer
* [[Isabel Sabogal]] (born 1958), novelist, poet and translator
* [[Sebastián Salazar Bondy]] (1924–1964), essayist and poet
* [[José Santos Chocano]] (1875–1934), poet
* [[Manuel Scorza]] (1928–1983), novelist and poet
* [[Hernando de Soto (economist)]] (born 1941), economist and essayist
* [[Carlos Thorne Boas]] (born 1923), novelist, writer and lawyer
* [[Álvaro Torres-Calderón]] (1975-), poet
* [[Abraham Valdelomar]] (1888–1919)
* [[Blanca Varela]] (1926–2009), poet
* [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] (born 1936), novelist of the [[Latin American Boom]]
* [[Virginia Vargas]] (born 1945), sociologist
* [[Cesar Vallejo]] (1892–1938), influential poet, writer, journalist
*[[Chalena Vásquez]] (1950–2016), ethnomusicologist and folklorist
* [[José Watanabe]] (1946–2007), poet