Moreto y Cavana (1618–1661), dramatist and playwright. Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1984), novelist, essayist, journalist and short stories writer; author of Bomarzo (1962). Álvaro Mutis (born 1923), Cervantes Prize (2001) and Prince of Asturias Awards Laureate (1997). Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1971). Amado Nervo (1870–1919), modernist poet. Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994), novelist and short-story writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1980). José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), philosopher and essayist. Fernando del Paso (born 1935), novelist, essayist and poet, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1982). Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Cervantes Prize (1981) and Nobel Prize (1990) Laureate. Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1952), best-selling novelist and journalist. Sergio Pitol (born 1933), novelist, short stories writer and translator, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2005). Elena Poniatowska (born 1932), novelist. Manuel Puig (1932–1990), novelist, author of The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976). Q-T Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), novelist, essayist and poet, master of Conceptism. Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937), short story writer. José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928), poet and novelist. José Rizal (1861–1896), poet, novelist and essayist. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1989). Fernando de Rojas (1465–1541), novelist, author of La Celestina (1499). Gonzalo Rojas (born 1917), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2003). Juan Ruiz (c. 1283 – c. 1350), author of the epic poem Book of Good Love. Juan Rulfo (1917–1986), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1983). Ernesto Sabato (born 1911), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1984). Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), poet. Pedro Salinas (1891–1951), poet. Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), postmodernist poet. Saint Teresa of Avila (1515–1582), mystic poet. Tirso de Molina (1571–1648), playwright. U-Z Francisco Umbral (born 1935), novelist, biographer and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2000). Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1931), existentialist author and essayist. Arturo Uslar-Pietri (1906–2001), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1990). Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936), dramatist, novelist and member of the Generation of 98. César Vallejo (1892–1938), poet. Fernando Vallejo (born 1942), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (2003). Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1994). José Vasconcelos (1882–1959), thinker, educator and essayist. Garcilaso de la Vega (1501–1536), poet. "El Inca" Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), first mestizo author in Spanish language. Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635), poet and playwright. Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), poet. Gabriel Zaid (born 1934), poet and essayist. María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1660), novelist. José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893), poet and dramatist, author of Don Juan Tenorio (1844). Film directors Pedro Almodóvar (born 1949)