List of Salvadoran writers

This is a list of Salvadoran writers, including novelists, short story writers, poets, and journalists.

• Claribel Alegría (born 1924)
• Arturo Ambrogi (1874–1936)
• Manlio Argueta (born 1935)
• Salvador Salazar Arrué (Salarrué) (1899–1975)
• José Roberto Cea (born 1939)
• Roque Dalton (1935–1975)
• Francisco Andrés Escobar (born 1942)
• Jacinta Escudos (born 1961)
• Alfredo Espino (1900–1928)
• Miguel Ángel Espino (1903–1967)
• Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993)
• Francisco Gavidia (1863–1955)
• Claudia Hernández (born 1975)
• José María Peralta Lagos (1873–1944)
• Claudia Lars (1899–1974)
• Hugo Lindo (1917–1985)
• Alberto Masferrer (1868–1932)
• Nora Méndez (born 1969)
• Horacio Castellanos Moya (born 1957)
• Rafael Menjívar Ochoa (born 1959)
• Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (1908-1979)
• Juan Felipe Toruño (born 1898)
• Ítalo López Vallecillos (born 1932–1986)
• Roberto Armijo (1937–1997)
• Alfonso Quijada Urías (born 1940)
• Lilliam Armijo (born 1984)