Editing List of Cubans (section)

===Authors and poets===
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{{Main|List of Cuban writers}}
{{Further|Cuban literature}}

*[[Alejo Carpentier]],<ref name="Bloom">{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |pages=559–560}}</ref> novelist
*[[Antonio Benitez-Rojo]], author
*[[Brígida Agüero]], poet
*[[Daína Chaviano]], author
*[[Carilda Oliver Labra]], poet
*[[Domitila García de Coronado]], writer and journalist
*[[Dulce María Loynaz]], author
*[[Edmundo Desnoes]], author
*[[Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda]], author, poet
*[[Guillermo Cabrera Infante]],<ref name="Bloom" /> author
*[[Heberto Padilla]], poet
*[[Héctor Zumbado]], writer, journalist, humorist, critic
*[[José Ignacio Rivero]], author and journalist
*[[Antonio Rodríguez Salvador]], poet, author
*[[José Lezama Lima]],<ref name="Bloom" /> author, poet
*[[Mary Stanley Low]] (1912–2007), British-Cuban political activist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
*[[José María Heredia y Campuzano]], poet
*[[José Martí]], author, poet, journalist
*[[David Masnata y de Quesada]], author and historian 
*[[Julián del Casal]], 19th-century poet
*[[Leonardo Padura Fuentes]], novelist, journalist
*[[Mariano Brull]], author
*[[Nancy Morejón]], author
*[[José Gómez-Sicre]], art critic and author
*[[Nicolás Guillén]],<ref name="Bloom" /> poet
*[[Norberto Fuentes]], author
*[[Pedro Juan Gutiérrez]], author, poet, painter
*[[Pedro Luis Boitel]], poet
*[[Raúl Rivero]], poet and journalist
*[[Reinaldo Arenas]],<ref name="Bloom" /> author
*[[Severo Sarduy]],<ref name="Bloom" /> poet
*[[Virgilio Piñera]], author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
*[[Zoé Valdés]], author
*[[Cirilo Villaverde]]