Uruguay
See: Culture of Uruguay
- Eduardo Galeano, writer and social commentator renowned throughout Latin America
- Mario Benedetti, Uruguay's best-known novelist
- Jorge Majfud
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- Horacio Quiroga
- Juana de Ibarbourou
- Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
- Delmira Agustini
- Isidore Lucien Ducasse, born in Montevideo though French by nationality
- José Enrique Rodó Considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher Encyclopædia Britannica
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