Roberto G. Fernández (born 24 September 1951) is a Cuban American novelist and short story writer.

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, born 27 January 1950 in Matanzas, Cuba, is a Cuban novelist.

Jose Manuel Prieto is a Cuban novelist, translator and scholar.

One of his most famous students is Miguel Barnet, who has become a leading Cuban novelist, ethnographer and essayist.

Antonio Benítez Rojo (March 14, 1931 - January 5, 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist and short-story writer.

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 - April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist.

Guillermo Rosales (1946-1993) was a Cuban novelist.

Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist.

As the story opens, sudden celebrity is forcing an exiled Cuban novelist, newly arrived in Miami, to neglect his fictional characters.

Lisandro Otero González (June 4, 1932 - January 3, 2008) was a Cuban novelist and journalist.