Ernesto Mejía Sánchez (Masaya, Nicaragua, 1923 – Mérida, Mexico, 1985) was a Nicaraguan author and poet.
He took his doctoral degree in Madrid and, for several years was a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
[1] His first work was Romances y Corridos Nicaragüenses, a compilation of stories, which was published in Mexico in 1946.
Together with Carlos Martinez Rivas, Pablo Antonio Cuadra y Ernesto Cardenal, he became part of what was called the "Generation of 1940".
In 1971, he became Doctor Honoris Causa at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and, a year later, received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award.