This is a list of writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, and journalists, who were born in Spain or whose writings are closely associated with that country. == A == Iñaki Abad (born 1963), novelist and journalist Brianda de Acuña (1576–1630), nun and autobiographer Pilar Adón (born 1971), novelist, short story writer, poet, translator Silvia Agüero (born 1985), Roma feminist writer and human rights activist Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833–1891), novelist Rafael Alberti (19…