The Most Famous

Writers from Chile

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This page contains a list of the greatest Chileans Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 16 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 59th most number of Writers behind Albania and South Korea.

Top 10 Chilean Writers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Chileans Writers of all time. This list of famous Chileans Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Chileans Writers.

  1. #1
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    Pablo Neruda

    1904 - 1973

    HPI 82.29127 langs

    Pablo Neruda is most famous for his book "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" which was published in 1924.

  2. #2
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    Gabriela Mistral

    1889 - 1957

    HPI 73.30104 langs
    Gabriela Mistral is most famous for being the first Latin American and Chilean woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. She was...Read moreShow less

    Gabriela Mistral is most famous for being the first Latin American and Chilean woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. She was also the first Latin American woman to become a diplomat.

  3. #3
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    Alejandro Jodorowsky

    b. 1929

    HPI 73.2847 langs
    Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, author, actor, and psychotherapist. He is most famous for his avant-garde films,...Read moreShow less

    Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, author, actor, and psychotherapist. He is most famous for his avant-garde films, such as El Topo and The Holy Mountain.

  4. #4
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    Luis Sepúlveda

    1949 - 2020

    HPI 69.2040 langs

    Luis Sepúlveda is most famous for his novel "The General in His Labyrinth" which tells the story of Simón Bolívar's last days.

  5. #8
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    Nicanor Parra

    1914 - 2018

    HPI 63.4139 langs

    Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist (1914-2018)

  6. #9
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    José Donoso

    1924 - 1996

    HPI 60.8724 langs

    Chilean author and journalist (1924-1996)

People by Birth Decade

Browse notable Chileans Writers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.

Overlapping Lives

Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 13 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.

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