Andrés Luciano Mateo Martínez (born 30 November 1946) is a Dominican writer, novelist, poet, philologist, educator, literary critic, essayist, researcher and philosopher.
The son of Antonio Mateo Peguero and Guadalupe Martínez Reyes, his primary education studies were at the Colegio San Juan Bosco, where he wrote his first novel, Pisando los dedos de Dios.
[2] In 1965, he founded the La Isla group, composed of young writers who looked to art and culture in social transformations occurring in the Dominican Republic as inspiration.
Members of the group included Wilfredo Lozano, Norberto James Rawlings, Antonio Lockward Artiles, Fernando Sánchez Martínez, Jorge Lara and José Ulises Rutinell Domínguez.
In 1999, he received the Dominican Journalistic Excellence Award for his newspaper column "Sobre el tiempo presente", published in Listin Diario.