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Afghanistan

• Bahar Said (born c. 1954), Afghan poet
• Surraya Wahidi (born 1955), Afghan poet

Albania

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• Mina Çaushi (sq)
• Liri Hidërshaj (born 1953) (sq)
• Mimoza Hysa (born 1967) (sq)
• Zhuliana Jorganxhi (born 1946) (sq) (sv)
• Adelina Mamaqi (born 1939) (sq)
• Mira Meksi (sq)
• Aida Bode (sq)
• Mimoza Sali (born 1973) (sq)
• Leidi Shqiponja (born 1962) (sq)
• Ejvis Maria Xhajanka (born 1968), writer, psychologist and activist (sq)
• Kozeta Zavalani (born 1958), diplomat and writer (sq)
• Suzana Zisi (born 1967) (sq)

Algeria

More here: Writers in fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres algérienne missing from en, Writers in ar:تصنيف:كاتبات جزائريات (Category: female Algerian writers) missing from en and List of Algerian writers.

• Denise Bonal (1921-2011) was an Algerian-born French actress and playwright. (fr)
• Fatiha Berezak (born 1947) is an Algerian poet and performer. [1]
• Nadia Ben Mouhoub (1969-2002) (fr)

Andorra

• Alexandra Grebennikova Vólkova (ca)
• Anneke van de Wal (ca)

Angola

• Leila dos Anjos, Anjels
• Ana Branco
• Maria Manuela de Figueiredo Cerqueira
• Maria Alexandre Daskalos (born 1957) is an Angolan poet.
• Maria de Conceicao Figueiredo is an Angolan children's writer.
• Anánaz Kanguimbo
• Dya Kasembe
• Ana Major
• Marta Medina (born 1956) is an Angolan writer.
• Maria Neto is an Angolan children's writer.
• Hildegard Netz
• Angelina Neves
• Rosalina Pombal is an Angolan children's writer.
• Silvia Maria Viera

More: pt:Categoria:Escritores de Angola & pt:Anexo:Lista de escritores de Angola & Women Writing Africa, A Bibliography of Lusophone Women Writers

Arab women writers

See also: Arab Women Writers website

• Najiba al-`Aasal (1921-1992) was an Egyptian novelist.[2]
• Hadia Abd al-Hadi / Hadia Abdul-Hadi (born 1920s) is a Palestinian poet.[3]
• Jamila al-Alayili (1907-1991) was an Egyptian poet and novelist.[4]
• Huda Hanna (born 1922) is a Palestinian novelist.[5]
• Georgette Hannush (born 1930) is a Syrian novelist.[6]
• Maliha Ishaq (born 1925) is an Iraqi short-story writer.[7]
• Samira Khashuqji / Samira Bint al-Jazira al-'Arabiya (1940-1986) was a Saudi novelist and short-story writer.[8]
• Amina al-Lawwa (born 1926) is a Moroccan short-story writer and playwright.[9]
• Maryam Mash'al is a Palestinian writer.[10]
• Zaynab Muhammed was an Egyptian novelist.[11]
• Salwa Mahmasani Mu'mina (1908-1957) was a Lebanese teacher and writer.[12]
• In`am Musalima (born 1938) was a Syrian novelist and short-story writer.[13]
• Jadhibiya Sidqi (1927-2001) was an Egyptian writer.[14]
• Wadida Wassef (1898-1958) was a Lebanese-Egyptian actress and magazine publisher.[15]
• Anayat al-Zayyat (died 1967) was an Egyptian novelist.[16]

Critical Reference Guide

• Fathiya 'Abd Allah 'Ajilan (born 1953), Bahraini poet.page=350
• Jamila al-'Ajuri (born 1969), Jordanian poet.page=350
• Nura Al Sa'd (born 1964), Qatari short-story writer.page=350
• Janan al-Jarudi Al-Sa'id (born ?), Lebanese journalist and novelist.page=350
• Fa'ida Al Yasin (born 1959), Iraqi poet.page=350
• Buthayna 'Ali (born ?), Egyptian novelist.page=351
• Sayyida Faruq Muhammad 'Ali (born 1967), Egyptian poet.page=351
• Zahiya Muhammad 'Ali (1964-1986), Libyan poet and short-story writer.page=351
• Najla' 'Allam (born 1969), Egyptian short-story writer.page=352
• Layla 'Allush (born 1948), Palestinian poet and painter.page=352
• Qumasha 'Abd al-Rahman al-'Alyan (), Saudi short-story writer.page=352
• Jamila 'Amayra (born 1963), Jordanian short-story writer.page=352
• Madiha 'Amir (born ?), Egyptian poet.page=354
• Ni'mat 'Amir (born ?), Egyptian poet.page=354
• Hissa Ibrahim Muhammad al-'Ammar (born ?), Saudi short-story writer.page=354
• Wafa' a;-'Amrani (born 1960), Moroccan poet.page=354
• 'Ahd Muhammad 'Anani (born ?), Saudi short-story writer.page=354
• Salwa al-'Anani (born 1947), Egyptian short-story writer.pages=354-5
• Safiya 'Anbar (born ?), Saudi novelist.page=355
• Sabiha 'Andani (born ?), Syrian novelist.page=355
• Kalizar Anwar (born ?), Iraqi short-story writer and novelist.page=355
• Samiya Anwar (born ?), Egyptian writer.page=355
• Thérèse Aouad Basbous (born 1934).page=355
• Widad al-'Aqil (born ?), Yemeni poet.page=355
• Sharifa 'Arabawi (born 1950), Tunisian short-story writer.pages=355-6
• Siham 'Arida (born 1947), Palestinian short-story writer and playwright.page=356
• Sumaya 'Arisha (born 1954), Egyptian short-story writer.page=356
• Ikhlas 'Ata Allah Armaniyus (born ?), Egyptian short-story writer.page=356
• 'A'isha al-Arna'ut (born 1946), Syrian poet.page=356
• Raja' Arna'ut (born ?), Syrian poet and journalist.page=356

Argentina

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• Teresa Caballero[17]
• Marta Giménez Pastor, (es)
• Cristina Siscar (born 1947) is an Argentinian writer.
• María Wérnicke, (es)

Australia

• Meg Keneally Australian journalist and author [18] [19]

Austria

• Nigg, Marianne (1893). Biographien der österreichischen Dichterinnen und Schriftstellerinnen: ein Beitrag zur deutschen Literatur in Österreich [Biographies of Austrian Poets and Writers: A Contribution to German Literature in Austria] (in German). Korneuburg: J. Kühkopf. OCLC 778010320.

• Elsie Altmann Loos (es)
• Luise George Bachmann (1903-1976) (de)
• Natalie Beer (1903-1987) (de)
• Patricia Brooks (writer) (born 1957) (de)
• Liselotte Buchenauer (1922-2003) (de)
• Catarina Carsten (born 1920) (de)
• Susanne Dobesch (born 1957) (de)
• Dora Dunkl (born 1957) (de)
• Brigitta Falkner (born 1959) (de)
• Egid Filek von Wittinghausen (1874-1949) (de)
• Dagmar Fischer (born 1969) (de)

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Azerbaijan

There are several Azerbaijani women's biographies included in Modern Azerbaijani Women's Prose (2014):

• Gulshan Latifkhan
• Eluja Atali
• Shalala Abil
• Khuraman Ismayil
• Khumar Alakbarli
• Naringul - Naringul Nadir gizi Babayeva, b. 1962, poet[20][21]
• Afag Shikhli
• Cavidan
• Rugiyya Safari
• Svetlana Turan
• Tarana Vahid
• Shahnaz Kamal
• Sudaba Aghabalayeva

Bangladesh

• Munize Manzur is a Bangladeshi short story writer.
• Sadaf Saaz / Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi / Sadaf Saaz Siddiqui (born 1968) is a Bangladeshi poet.
• Ruby Zaman is a Bangladeshi novelist.[22][23]

Belgium

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• Marina Defauw (nl)
• Mel Hartman (nl)
• Katja Retsin (nl)
• Katharina Van Cauteren (nl)
• Moniek Vermeulen (nl)
• Loekie Zvonik (born 1933), Flemish novelist. (nl)

Benin

See also: List of Beninese writers

• Barbara Akplogan (1984– ), French-language writer
• Hortense Mayaba, French-language novelist and children's writer

Bolivia

es:Categoría:Escritoras de Bolivia missing from English wikipedia

• Virginia Estensoro (es)
• Isabel Mesa de Inchauste
• Natalia Palacios (es)
• Norah Zapata Prill (es)

Brazil

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More here: REBRA

• Maria Sylvia Carvalho Franco, non-fiction writer[24]
• Ana M. Machado, children's books
• Ivete Sacramento (es), writer, anthropologist, ethnologist
• Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva (pt), best selling non fiction author

Bulgaria

• Club of Bulgarian Women Writers, founded 1930.
• Rada Aleksandrova (born 1943), Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright. (bg)
• Miriana Basheva (born 1947), Bulgarian poet.
• Liana Daskalova (born 1927), Bulgarian writer and translator.
• Fedya Filkova (born 1951), Bulgarian poet and translator.
• Mariia Grubeshlieva (1900-1970), Bulgarian poet.
• Lyudmila Issaeva, Bulgarian poet and children's writer.
• Nadia Kekhlibareva (born 1933), Bulgarian poet.
• Kalina Kovacheva (born 1943), Bulgarian writer and poet. (bg)
• Miglena Nikolchina, Bulgarian literary scholar and poet.
• Liliana Stefanova (born 1929), Bulgarian poet.
• Nevena Stefanova (born 1923), Bulgarian poet and scriptwriter.
• Danila Stoianova (1961-1984), Bulgarian poet. (nl)

Burkina Faso

See also: List of Burkinabé writers

• Sandra Pierrette Kanzié, French-language poet
• Gaël Koné (b. 1976), French-language poet
• Suzy Henrique Nikiéma (b. 1983), French-language novelist
• Marie-Simone Séri (b. 1954), French-language autobiographical writer also connected with Côte d'Ivoire

Burma

my:Category:မြန်မာ_အမျိုးသမီး_စာရေးဆရာများ not in English wikipedia

• Ma Sanda (born 1947), Burmese writer
• Mo Mo (writer) (Inya) (1945–1990), Burmese writer[25][26][27][28]

Cameroon

See also: List of Cameroonian writers

More: fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres camerounaise not in English wikipedia

• Agnes Taile is a Cameroonian journalist. After being abducted, beaten and left for dead in 2007, she left Cameroon in 2009.

Canada

Authors

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• Joan Baxter, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Ingeborg Boyens, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and author of Another Season's Promise
• Mary Coy Bradley (1771–1859), New Brunswick memoirist[29]
• Daphne Bramham, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and author of The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect
• Janet Isabel Carruthers (born 1894) Canadian teacher and children's writer. Carruthers taught in a school for Native Americans in the Canadian bushland of North Ontario.
• Eliza Ann Chipman (1807–1853), Nova Scotia diarist[30]
• Matilda Moore Churchill / M. M. Faulkner (1840–1924), Nova Scotia schoolteacher, Baptist missionary, and author[31][32]
• Catherine B. Clement, curator, 2020 winner of City of Vancouver Book Award[33][34]
• Licia Corbella, journalist and editor[35][36]
• Sarah Cox (writer), Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and author of Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro
• Emily McCausland Cummings (1851–1930), Toronto publicist, social reformer, office holder and journalist at the Globe[37][38]
• Margaret Gill Currie / Margaret Catharine Currie / Margaret Catharine Gill (1843–1906), New Brunswick poet[39][40]
• Lilia D'Acres B.C. writer[41]
• Margaret Dickie (1827–1908), Nova Scotian diarist[42]
• Karen Duffek (born 1956), curator, anthropologist, 2016 winner of City of Vancouver Book Award[43]
• Anna Durie (1856–1933), war mother, poet and novelist[44][45][46][47]
• Alison Dyer, poet and Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award winner[48][49]
• Judith Fingard, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Lady Adeline Davis Chisholm Foster (1844–1919), temperance reformer and pamphleteer (married to George Eulas Foster)[50]
• Shelley Fralic, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award winner
• Elizabeth Murdoch Frame (1820–1904), Nova Scotia writer and historian[51]
• Victoria Freeman, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and author of Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America[52][53][54][55]
• Lisa Funnell, writer on James Bond, action movies, and gender[56]
• Marie-Angèle Gauthier (1828–1898), Catholic superior and travel writer[57]
• Shelagh D. Grant, Lionel Gelber Prize winner and author of Polar Imperatives: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
• Rose Grier (1832–1920), Upper Canada educator and author of Alleviations[58]
• Edith Lelean Groves (1870–1931), Toronto teacher, playwright, author and school board trustee.[59][60][61][62]
• Bellelle Guerin (1849–1929), social activist, founder of Catholic Women's League, and author of John Easton Mills: The Martyr Mayor of Montreal[63][64]
• Florence Hussey Hall (1864–1917), B.C. journalist, suffragist, and feminist (fr)[65]
• Lisa Harrington, winner of Ann Connor Brimer Award for children's literature
• Amelia Ryerse Harris (1798–1882), Upper Canada author and diarist[66][67][68]
• Frances Elizabeth Herring (1851–1916), B.C. teacher, journalist and author[69][70]
• Kay Hill (1917–2011), winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction[71][72][73]
• Jessie Gourlie Hogg (1861–1915), P.E.I. author and impresario[74]
• Jennifer Houle, J. M. Abraham Poetry Award winner
• Kate Inglis, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Dorothy V. Jones, Lionel Gelber Prize winner and author of Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord States
• Katarina Jovanovic, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize winner
• Emily Spencer Kerby (1860–1938), feminist and writer, co-founder of Canadian Authors Association[75]
• Gertrude Cornish Knight (1877–1933), author, journalist, and pageant producer[76][77]
• Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, J. M. Abraham Poetry Award winner
• Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize winner
• Annette LeBox, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize winner
• Andréa Ledding, Métis playwright, poet, and writer[78][79]
• Elizabeth Newell Lockerby (1831–1884), P.E.I. poet[80][81]
• Mary Ellen Macnab (1854–1939), Nova Scotia teacher, activist and author[82][83]
• Antonia Maioni, Dean of Arts at McGill University and author of Health Care in Canada
• Leslie Maitland (architectural historian) [84][85]
• Andrea Mandel-Campbell, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and author of Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson
• Amelia Anne McLean (1867–1922), linguist and author of The people of the plains[86]
• Ada McLeod / Ada MacLeod / Ada Ramsay MacLeod (1867–1932), P.E.I. magazine writer and essayist[87][88]
• Huldah McMullen (1854–1904), editor of the weekly Canada Citizen temperance journal[89]
• Susan Mein (1783–1866), 19th-century memoirist[90]
• Hannah Maria Norris (1842–1919), Baptist missionary in Myanmar, translator and author[91]
• Elizabeth Pacey, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Gertrude Isabella Parsons (1880–1924), Newfoundland painter, short story writer and novelist.[92]
• Rhonda Pelley, artist and Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award winner
• Jean Pinkham (1849–1940), western community organizer and memoirist[93](photo)
• Simone Poirier-Bures, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Shazia Hafiz Ramji, 2018 Alberta Magazine Awards finalist, 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award winner, 2016 National Magazine Awards finalist
• Susanne Reber, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and co-author of Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
• Susan Rendell, novelist and Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award winner
• Ellen Rooney, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize winner
• Sally Ross, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Annette Saint-Amant / Annette Frémont (1892–1928), newspaper columnist[94][95]
• Miriam Shuchman, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner and author of The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children
• Lois Simmie (born 1932), novelist, short story writer, poet, children's writer (Mister Got to Go books)[96]
• Rina Singh, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize winner
• Joan Sullivan, editor, author and Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award winner
• Kaleigh Trace, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Janet Turpin Myers, writer and poet [97][98]
• Alice Walsh, winner of Ann Connor Brimer Award for children's literature
• Karin Wells, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee and author of The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose[99][100]
• Susan White (writer), winner of Ann Connor Brimer Award for children's literature
• Wendy Wickwire, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award winner
• Francis Wolfe (writer), winner of Ann Connor Brimer Award for children's literature
• Erin Wunker, winner of Evelyn Richardson Award for non-fiction
• Elizabeth Bingham Young (1843–1934), Methodist missionary and writer (married to Egerton Ryerson Young)[101]

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• Éditions du remue-ménage (fr), feminist Quebecois publishing house

Caribbean region

• Melania Daniel (born 1962) is a St. Lucian poet.
• Millicent A. Graham (born 1974) is a Jamaican poet.
• Judy Miles (born 1942) is a poet from Trinidad & Tobago
• Elaine Savory is a Caribbean literary scholar

Chile

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• Úrsula Suárez (es)

China

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Poets

• Duan Wang / Wang Duan (1793–1838/39), Chinese poet, literary scholar and historian
• Shen Yixiu (1590–1635), Chinese poet
• Sheng Xiaocong (fl. 846–859), Chinese courtesan and poet
• Xu Yueying, Tang courtesan and poet
• Yan Rui / You Fang (fl. c. 1160), Chinese poet

Other

• Hsi Hsi is the pen name of Chang Yan (born 1938), a Chinese writer
• T'ao Yang is a Chinese writer living in Hong Kong, author of Borrowed Tongue (1986)

Colombia

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• Pilar Castaño (es)
• Aída Martinez Carreño (es)
• Adriana Arango (es)
• María Paz Ruiz Gil (es)
• Lucía Estrada (es)
• Lauren Mendinueta (es)
• Isabel Lleras (es)
• Blanca Isaza de Jaramillo Meza (es)
• Mary Grueso (es)
• Gloria Posada (es)
• Gloria Cepeda Vargas (es)
• Luz Mary Giraldo (es)
• Maruja Vieira (es)
• Laura Victoria Valencia (es)
• Clemencia Sánchez (es)
• María Teresa Ramírez (es)
• Elvira Alejandra Quintero (es)
• Águeda Pizarro (es)
• Gertrudis Peñuela (es)

Costa Rica

• Rima de Vallbona is the pseudonym of Rima Gretchen Rothe Strasburger (born 1931), a Costa Rican writer. (es)

Croatia

• Mariju Betteru-Dimitrović (1671-1765) poet [102]
• Juliju Bunić
• Nadu Bunić (hr?)

Cuba

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• Concepción Teresa Alzola, (es)
• Lucrecia Artalejo, (es)
• Aida Bahr, (es)
• María Elena Cruz Varela, (es)
• Sonia Díaz Corrales, (es)
• Olga Fernández, (es)
• Mercedes Matamoros [103], [104]
• Gina Picart, (es)
• Graziella Pogolotti, (es)
• Mariana Lidia Torres Pérez, (es)

Czech Republic

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• Tereza Brdečková, Czech writer and film critic (cs)
• Mascha Halamová, Czech writer
• Pavla Šuranská / Pavla Waňkowská-Šuranská (born 1982), Czech musician and poet (czechlit)
• Jarmila Urbánková, Czech poet (cs)
• Olga Walló (born 1948), Czech dubbing director and writer (cs, czechlit)

Democratic Republic of Congo

See also: University of Pennsylvania's "WRITERS FROM CONGO (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC)"

Denmark

• Christina Hagen
• Amalie Schmith
• Dy Plambeck
• Mette Moestrup

Dominican Republic

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Ecuador

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El Salvador

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Egypt

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• Malak Abdel-Aziz (1923-) Egyptian poet and editor
• Nemat el-Behairy is an Egyptian writer
• Etidal Osman is an Egyptian writer and critic.
• Baheega Sidky Rasheed / Bahija Mahmud Sidqi Rashid (m. Hasan Rashid) poet, musician, compiler of Egyptian Folk Songs in Arabic and English

Eritrea

• Abeba Tesfagiorgis is an Eritrean autobiographical writer, author of A Painful Season and a Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Woman in Prison.

Ethiopia

• Azeb Worku (born 1975) is an Ethopian actress, theatre producer and playwright.

Finland

• Selma Anttila, Finnish writer[105]
• Orvokki Autio, Finnish writer[106]
• Sari Peltoniemi, Finnish author[107]

Poets

• Maria Charlotta Alcenius (fi)
• Selma Anttila (fi)
• Elina Anttilainen (fi)
• Marjaana Aumasto (fi)
• Orvokki Autio (fi)
• Rita Dahl (fi)
• Anja Erämaja (fi)
• Fanny Friman (fi)
• Maris Gothóni (fi)
• Catharina Gripenberg (fi)
• Thyra Grotenfelt (fi)
• Monica von Haartman (fi)
• Pauliina Haasjoki (fi)
• Ruth Hannula (fi)
• Liisa Heikkerö (fi)
• Eeva Heikkilä (fi)
• Hilma Heikkilä (fi)
• Helka Hiisku (fi)
• Gustava Sofia Hjärne (fi)
• Erika Husberg (fi)
• Kaisa Ijäs (fi)
• Marjo Isopahkala (fi)
• Maria Jaatinen (fi)

France

Missing writers from French wikipedia category Femme de lettres française

• Marie-Henriette-Anne Payan Delestang, Marquise d'Antremont (1746–1802)
• Péronnelle d'Armentières (c. 1340-?)
• Samantha Bailly (fr)
• Blanche Bendahan (he)
• Charlotte Bousquet (fr)
• Ophélie Bruneau (fr), science fiction
• Marie Caillet (fr)
• Georgia Caldera (fr)
• Marie-Françoise Certain.
• Charlotte Saumaise de Chazan, Countess of Brégy (1619-1693).
• Nathalie Dau (fr)
• Catherine Durand, Dame Bédacier (1670-1736).
• Pierette Fleutiaux (born 1941) is a French writer.[108]
• Audrey Françaix (fr)
• Catherine de Meudrac, dame de La Guette / Madame de La Guette (1613-after 1676). -- see fr:Madame de La Guette
• Marianne Leconte (fr), science fiction
• Justine Niogret (fr)
• Laurence Nobécourt / Lorette Nobécourt (born 1968) is a French novelist.[109]
• Cassandra O'Donnell (fr)
• Claire Panier-Alix (fr)
• Marie Pech de Calages / Marie Puech de Calages (1630-1661)
• Mlle Poulain.
• Jeanne-Michelle de Pringy. -- see fr:Jeanne-Michelle de Pringy
• Prix de la Closerie des Lilas (fr)
• Marie-Éléonore de Rohan (1628-1681).
• Jeanne de Schomberg (1600-1674).
• Magali Ségura (fr)
• Valérie Simon (fr)
• Vanessa Terral (fr)

French Guiana

• Donna Mulvenna is an Australian writer based in French Guiana

Gabon

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• Peggy Lucie Auleley, French-language poet.

Gambia

See also: List of Gambian writers

• Dayo Forster is a Gambian writer (link is to book)

Germany

• Elisabeth Dauthendey (1854-1943) was a German writer.
• Tanja Dückers (born 1968) is a German writer.[110]
• Veronika Erdmann or Erdmann-Czapski (1894–1984) was a German poet and translator.
• Irene Forbes-Mosse (1864-1946) was a German poet, short story writer and translator.
• Katia Fox (born 1964), novelist (de)
• Hertha von Gebhardt (1896-1978) was a German writer. (de)
• Adele Gerhard (1868-1956) was a German writer.
• Maria Gleit was the pseudonym of Hertha Hofmann, nee Gleitsmann (28 February 1909 - 9 July 1981), a German children's writer.
• Catherina Godwin (1884-1958) was a German writer and journalist.
• Roswith Hartmann (1933-2001). German specialist in ancient American studies, ethnolinguist and ethnohistorian.[111]
• Beatrix Heintze (born 1939), German anthropologist
• Rita Ottens German ethnomusicologist, writer on Jewish music and producer of klezmer Cds etc [112]
• Ulla Schild (1938-1998), German writer on African literature.[113]
• Sigrid Westphal-Hellbusch (1915-1984), German anthropologist.[114]
• Annemarie Zornack (born 1932), German poet. (de)
• Anja Lundholm on german wiki and was nominated for nobel literature prize.

Ghana

See also: List of Ghanaian writers

Greece

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Guyana

• Evadne D’Oliveira (1929-2010) was a Guyanese writer.[115] Known in Guyana for her Broadcast to Schools programme, and as editor of the Guyana Chronicle. In 1979 D'Oliveira emigrated to Canada. D'Oliveira received the Guyana Prize for Literature (when?) [116]
• Sheila King (1922-2019) was a Guyanese writer. [117] [118]
• Syble Douglas / Syble G. Douglas [119] [120]
• Celeste Dolphin
• B. Zorina Ishmael
• Jacqueline DeWeever
• Joy Alsopp
• Margaret E. Bayley
• Edina Melville
• Jan Lo Shinebourne
• Doris Harper Wills / Doris Harper-Wills

Haiti

More here: fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres haïtienne missing from English wikipedia and ht:Kategori:Fanm ekriven missing from English wikipedia

• Ginette Adamson writer and painter (ht)
• Margaret Cartier (ht)
• Bernadette Carré Crosley (ht)[121]
• Déita / Mercedes Foucard Guignard (1935-2012) playwright and ethnographer (ht)
• Dowoti Désir -- Sources: [122] [123] [124] [125]
• Geneviève Gaillard-Vanté novelist, 2001 Deschamps Prize (ht)
• Maude Heurtelou children's author (ht)[126]
• Edith Lataillade poet and novelist (ht)[127]
• Farah-Martine Lherisson (ht)
• Elvire Maurouard novelist (ht)
• Odette Mennesson-Rigaud (fl. 1946-1958) French-born ethnographer[128][129]
• Manuela Moss (ht)
• Margaret Papillon (b. 1958) (ht)
• Ghyslaine Rochelin (ht:Ghyslaine Rochelin)
• Katia Ulysse Sources:[130][131][132]

Honduras

• Victoria Bertrand (1907-1951) was a Honduran poet.
• Eva Thais was the pseudonym of Edith Tarríus López (1931-2001), a Honduran poet.
• María Eugenia Ramos (born 1959) is a Honduran writer and editor.
• Aída Ondina Sabonge (born 1958) is a Honduran poet.
• Helen Umaña (born 1942) is a Honduran writer and literary critic.

Hungary

• Lujza Malom (1821-1847), Hungarian poet and translator. (hu)

Iceland

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• Jóreiðr Hermundardóttir Miðjumdal, credited with eight stanzas of dream verse in Íslendinga saga.

India

• Deepa Agarwal (born 1947) is an Indian children's writer, poet and translator.
• Sreemoyee Piu Kundu is an Indian journalist and novelist.
• Lavanya Sankaran (born 1968) is an Indian novelist and short story writer.

Iran

See also: fa:رده:نویسندگان زن اهل ایران missing from English wikipedia

Iraq

See also: ar:تصنيف:كاتبات عراقيات missing from English wikipedia

• 'Anan (died c. 846)
• Bushra al-Bustani (born 1950) is an Iraqi poet.

Ireland

Poets A-F

• Aisling Maguire
• Ann Bree
• Anna Pilz
• Anne Hartigan
• Barbara Buchanan
• Barbara Scully
• Brigid O'Connor
• Carmel Dennison
• Carmel Maginn or * Carmel Maginn
• Catriona Clutterbuck
• Clare Lynch
• Clare Wallace
• Colette McAndrew
• Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
• Deirdre Cartmill
• Derbhile Dromey
• Dianna Robin Dennis
• Dolores Whelan
• Ellen O'Toole
• Fran Brearton

Poets G-M

• Gail McConnell (poet)
• Geraldine Mills
• Geraldine Mitchell
• Geraldine Watts
• Grace Wells
• Guinn Batten
• Heather Clark (poet)
• Hedy Gibbons Lynott
• Heidi Hansson
• Isobel Mahon
• Jean Bleakney
• Jean O'Brien (poet)
• Joan Newmann
• Joanna Cowper
• Josephine Molloy
• Kate Allen (poet)
• Kate Duigan
• Laura Lojo
• Leeanne Quinn
• Linda Anderson (poet)
• Linda Revie
• Louise C. Callaghan
• Lucy Brennan
• Máiríde Woods
• Manuela Palacios
• Margaret Lee (poet)
• Maria Kurdi
• Marian O'Neill (poet)
• Márie Nic Gearailt
• Martina King
• Martine Pelletier
• Mary Branley
• Mary Coll
• Mary Gilroy Johnson
• Mary J. Byrne
• Mary P. Wilkinson
• Mary Rose Callan
• Mary Tigne
• Maureen O’Rourke Murphy

Poets N-Z

• Nollaig Rowan
• Noreen Walshe
• Nuala Rothery
• Patricia Boyle Haberstroh
• Patricia Nolan
• Paula Cunningham
• Paula Spencer (poet)
• Phyl Herbert
• R.P. Hewett
• Rosemary Quinn
• Sarah Clancy
• Sarah Ní Riain
• Sharon Hogan
• Susah Schreibman
• Suzanne Knowles
• Sylvia Cullen
• Vivian Valvano Lynch
• Whitney Standlee

Writers

• Elizabeth Dickinson West
• Victoria White (writer)

From http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ created by User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom

Not 100% sure they are all redlinks- as in spellings and name variations haven't all been checked. And there IS more information at the link for some of them.

Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed. Irish Women Writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-313-32883-1. Missing from this list are:

• Elizabeth Brennan[133]
• Joy Martin (born 1937), Irish journalist, novelist and writer.[134]

A-F

• Ann Cornelisen
• Anna-Maria Flynn (1955 - )
• Annie Coyle Martin (fl. 2002)
• B. Loftus Tottenham / Blanche Loftus Tottenham / Sophia Mary Locke / Blanche Mary Loftus Tottenham / Mrs. Arthur Ram (1866 - 1903)
• B. M. Spaight / Breda Spaight (1957 - )
• Catherine O'Donnell (writer) (August 15 1979 - )
• Catherine Ellis Tobin / Mrs. Thomas Tobin / C. T. ( - April 23 1903)
• Catherine Hyde Gouvion Broglie Scolari / Catherine Hyde, Marquise de Gouvion Broglie Scolari / Catherine Hyde, Marquise de Gouvion Catherine Hyde, Comtesse de Broglie Scolari / A Lady of Rank / Catherine Hyde; Kitty Hyams (1755/1756 - January 7 1844)
• Charlotte Dudley (1787 - 1825)
• Clairr O'Connor (1951 - )
• Clarissa Sandford Trant / Clarissa Bramston / Mrs. John Bramston (November 30 1800 - April 10 1844)
• Claudine Cullimore (fl. 2006)
• Cynthia O'Connor (1918 - 1999)
• Dinah W. Goff / Dinah Wilson Goff (1784 - 1856)
• Elaine Farrell / Elaine Frances Farrell (fl. 2012)
• Elizabeth Owen (fl. 1826)
• Ella J. Curtis / Shirley Smith (writer) (1850 - 1910)
• Ellen Hazelkorn (fl. 1981)
• Ellen M. Taylor (fl. 1882)
• Florence Monteith Lynch (fl. 1959)

G-Z

• Geraldine Moorkens Byrne (November 8 1968 - )
• Grace Little Rhys (1865 - 1929)
• Harriet Charlotte Beaujolais Campbell / Harriet Charlotte Beaujolais Bury, Countess of Charleville Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois Campbell Bury, Countess of Charleville (ca. 1801 - February 1 1848)
• Hazel Mc Intyre / Hazel McIntyre (fl. 2005)
• Hester Cooke ( - 1986)
• Isa Moynihan /Isobel Mary Moynihan (fl. 1997)
• Mrs. J. R. Greer / Sarah D. Strongman Greer / Mrs. John Robert Greer (1806 - 1891)
• Jennifer O'Riordan (fl. 2004)
• L. F. Waring (fl. 1917)
• Letitia MacLintock (fl. 1860)
• Lynn Connolly (1956 - )
• Mabel O'Farrell Nandris / Mabel Nandris / Mabel O'Farrell (fl. 1941)
• Maire Bradshaw (1943 - )
• Mairéid Sullivan (fl. 2000)
• Margaret Blennerhassett / Margaret Agnew (ca. 1788 - 1842)
• Margaret Cornelys (1723 - 1797)
• Margaret Boyle Harvey (1786 - 1832)
• Maria Pollen / Mrs. John Hungerford Pollen / Maria Margaret La Primaudaye (April 10 1838 - 1919)
• Marion Clarke / Mrs. Charles Henry Montague Clarke / Marian Doake (1842 - )
• Josephine Chermside / Martha Josephine Chermside / Mrs. Henry Lowther Chermside (1827 - 1894)
• Mary Lowry (fl. 1913)
• Mary Leland (fl. 1985)
• Mary Anne Browne / Mrs. James Gray (1812 - 1844)
• Mary Grant O'Sheridan (fl. 1881)
• Lady Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil / Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil / Lady Mary Sheil / Mary Sheil (fl. 1860)
• Maud Power (fl. 1907)
• May Byrne / May Wheland / Mary Catherine Lawrie / 'A Cape Colonist' (1855 - 1920)
• Miriam M. Wiley (fl. 1995)
• Miss Burke (fl. 1793)
• Miss Macauley / Elizabeth Wright Macauley (ca. 1785 - 1837)
• Elizabeth Forsyth (fl. 1784)
• Miss Crumpe (fl. 1829)
• Niamh Gray-Wilson (fl. 2010)
• Olga Pyne Clarke (1915 - 1996)
• Olive Sharkey (1954 - )
• Pamela Campbell / Lady Pamela Campbell / Pamela Fitzgerald (writer) (ca. 1795 - November 25 1869)
• Pauline Bracken (fl. 2006)
• Rhoda Cosgrave / Mrs. William Sivell (1874 - 1962)
• Sandy Watson / Ingrid Sandra Watson ( - January 7 2007)
• Sarah Grubb (1773-1842), Mrs. John Grubb Sarah Lynes Grubb
• Siobhán Lincoln (1919 - )
• Siobhan Darrow (October 10 1959 - )
• Sophie Macintosh (fl. 1860)
• Theresa Lennon Blunt (1931 - )
• Vivien Igoe (fl. 2006)

Italy

A longer list of redlinks here: User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Italian women writers
More here: fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres italienne missing from wikipedia

• Flavia Arzeni (born 1953) is an Italian academic and writer.
• Giulia Bigolina (ca.1520-1545/46) IWW
• Camilla Bonfiglio Ventimiglia (1603-1649) is an italian poet.
• Maria Busillo (1890-1974) is an italian writer.
• Ebe Cagli Seidenberg (1915-2002) was an Italian-American novelist and short story writer.[135]
• Fiorella Cagnoni (born 1947) is an Italian writer and feminist.[136]
• Christiana de Caldas Brito (born 1939) is an Italian psychotherapist and short story writer.[137]
• Marella Caracciolo Chia (born 1964) is an Italian writer.
• Fiammetta Frescobaldi (1523-1586) IWW
• Contessa Lara (1849-1896) IWW
• Alessandra Lavagnino (born 1927) is an Italian parasitologist and fiction writer.[138]
• Rosa Levi (fl. 1571) IWW
• Marisa Madieri, Italian writer (it)
• Carmelina Manganaro (1854-1925) is an italian poet.
• Eleonore Mazzoni (born 1965) is an Italian actress and writer.[139]
• Diamante Medaglia (1724-1770) IWW
• Letteria Montoro (1825-1893) is an italian poet and writer.
• Cettina Natoli Ajossa (1800?-1913) is an italian journalist and writer.
• Livia Neri (born 1939) is an Italian novelist.[140]
• Amalia Nizzoli (1806-1845?) IWW
• Simona Sparaco (born 1978) is an Italian screenwriter and novelist.
• Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso (1808-1871) IWW
• Ippolita Torelli / Ippolita Torelli Castiglione (1499-1520) IWW

Ivory Coast

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Jamaica

• Millicent A. Graham (born 1974) is a Jamaican poet.
• Colleen Smith-Dennis, Jamaican author and 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature nominee
• Elizabeth Wilson (translator) (Betty; born 1940), translator and editor[141][142]

Japan

• Shizuko Natsuke/Shizuko Natsuki (currently redirect)

Kenya

• Linda Musita is a Kenyan writer, editor and lawyer
• Mona L. Nduilu (1976 -)

Laos

• Nang (Laotian periodical) (founded 1972) was the first and only periodical in Laos to be devoted to women writers.

Latvia

• lv:Elza Stērste - Elza Stērste
• lv:Cecīlija Dinere - Cecīlija Dinere
• lv:Anna Auziņa - Anna Auziņa
• lv:Dagnija Zigmonte - Dagnija Zigmonte
• lv:Irma Grebzde - Irma Grebzde
• lv:Elīna Zālīte - Elīna Zālīte
• lv:Zenta Ērgle - Zenta Ērgle
• lv:Ilona Leimane - Ilona Leimane
• lv:Ilze Indrāne - Ilze Indrāne
• lv:Dace Rukšāne - Dace Rukšāne

Lebanon

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Libya

• Zahiya Muhammad 'Ali (1964-1986), Libyan poet and short story writer.
• Khadija al-Sadiq Basikri (born 1962), Libyan poet.
• 'A'isha Idris al-Maghribi (born 1956) Libyan poet.
• Fatima Mahmud / Fatima Mahmoud (born 1954), Libyan poet and short story writer.
• Mardiya al-Naas (born 1949), Libyan novelist and short story writer.
• Laila Moghrabi is a Libyan writer and journalist.

Malawi

• Ekari Mbvundula is a Malawian writer

Mali

• Bamakan Souko is a Malian writer. She won a short story award from Radio France Internationale in 1994.
• Fanta-Taga Tembele / Fanta-Taga Tembely (born 1946) is a Malian writer.[143]

Mauritania

• Al-Sayyida bint Ahmad (born 1972), Mauritanian poet and short story writer.[144]
• Imbaraka bint al-Bura' (born 1956), Mauritanian short story writer.[145]

Mauritius

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• Marie-Aimée de Kermorvan (fr)

Mexico

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Morocco

See also: List of Moroccan writers

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• Nedjma (born 1960s) is a Moroccan writer, author of the novel L'Amande (2004).
• Nuzha Bin Sulayman is a Moroccan writer.

Mozambique

• Matilde Acciaiuoli, O homen da cesta verde
• Olga Maria Pedro de Almeida, Chora Coração
• Ana Maria Barradas, essayist
• Maria de Beira, short stories
• Berta Henriques Bras, essays and non fic
• Maria do Ceu Coelho
• Márcia Ramos Ivens Ferraz, autobio
• Ana Mafalda Leite (born 1956) is a Mozambican poet

Netherlands

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• Désanne van Brederode (born 1970) is a Dutch writer.
• Marja Brouwers (born 1948) is a Dutch writer.
• Sasja Janssen, poet
• Dirkje Kuik (1929-2008) was a Dutch writer.
• Marije Langelaar, poet
• Anna de Savornin Lohman (1868-1930) was a Dutch writer, critic and journalist.
• Neeltje Maria Min (born 1944) is a Dutch poet.
• Kreek Daey Ouwens, poet
• Hagar Peeters, poet
• Helen Vreeswijk
• Aya Zikken (1919-2013) was a Dutch novelist. (nl)

New Zealand

• Te Aniwaniwa Hona / Te Aniwa Bosch Te Rangianiwaniwa Hona (1938-1997), Maori writer
• Minehan, Mike / Judith M. Blumsky (born 1947), New Zealand poet.
• Caren Wilton New Zealand writer [146] [147] [148] [149] [150]

Nigeria

• Mary Okoye, Nigerian writer of children's fiction

Oman

• Laila Al Belucci is an Omani writer based in the UK.
• Eshraq Abdullah Faras Alnahdi / Eshraq al Nahdi / Eshraq al Nahdi / Ashraq Bint Abdullah Al-Nahdi is an Omani writer.
• Ghaliya F. T. Al Sa`id is an Omani novelist.

Palestine

• Soraya Antonius is a Palestinian journalist and writer
• Samiya At'ut (born 1957) is a Palestinian writer.
• Samira Abu Ghazaleh (1928-2017) was a Palestinian writer and activist

Paraguay

• Renée Checa (1896-1963) was a Paraguayan poet.
• Susana Gertopan (born 1956) is a Paraguayan novelist.
• Josefina Sapena Pastor (c.1900-1991) was a Paraguayan poet, who published under the pseudonym Blanca Lila.
• Nathalie Bruel Peres (1897-1957) was a Paraguayan poet and painter.[151]
• Milda Rivarola (born 1955) is a Paraguayan social scientist and public intellectual.

Peru

More here: es:Categoría:Escritoras del Perú

• Carmela Abad Mendieta (es)
• Esther Allison (es)
• Mariana de Althaus (es)
• Magda Botteri Lequemaqué (es)
• Sofía Buchuck Gil (es)
• Aurora Cáceres Moreno (es)
• Cota Carvallo (es)
• Esther Castañeda Vielakamen (es)
• Rosa Cerna Guardia (es)
• Roxana Crisólogo Correa (es)
• Maritza Gallia (es)
• Lastenia Larriva de Llona (es)
• Teresa María Llona (es)
• Frida Manrique Silva (es)
• María de Rojas y Garay (es) - possible identity of Amarilis (poet)
• Doris Moromisato (es)
• Carmen Ollé (es)
• Giovanna Pollarolo (es)
• Amalia Puga de Lozada (es)
• Tanya Tynjälä (es)

Philippines

• Elvira Alvarado is a writer from the Philippines
• Joi Barrios is a poet from the Philippines
• Dolores Stephen Feria was a fictionist, painter, and activist from the Philippines
• Aida Rivera Ford is a fictionist from the Philippines
• Rosario Cruz Lucero is a fictionist and literary critic from the Philippines
• Marra PL. Lanot is a poet and feminist from the Philippines
• Madeleine Nicolas is a screenwriter and actor from the Philippines
• Bibeth Orteza is a screenwriter and actor from the Philippines
• Benilda Santos is a poet from the Philippines
• Luna Sicat is a writer from the Philippines
• Racquel Villavicencio is a screenwriter and actor from the Philippines
• Criselda Yabes is a journalist from the Philippines

Poland

• Eugenia Blaustein, née Ginsberg (1905–1942) was a Polish psychologist,
• Izydora Dąmbska (1904-1982) was a Polish philosopher.
• Janina Kotarbińska, also known as Dina Sztejnbarg-Kamińska (1901-1997) was a Polish philosopher and logician. She was married to Tadeusz Kotarbinski.
• Krystyna Miłobedzka (born 1932), Polish poet
• Barbara Sadowska (1940-1986), Polish poet and anti-Communist activist. (pl)

Portugal

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• Ângela Almeida (writer), (pt)
• Bernardete Costa, (es)
• Leonor de Noronha (1488-1563), a renowned humanist, attendant to Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal
• Dalila Pereira da Costa, (pt)
• Antónia de Roxas (1530-1580), poet
• Fernanda Seno, (pt)
• Filipa Melo (born 1972), mystery writer

Puerto Rico

• Ivette Romero/Ivette Romero-Cesareo, (born 1960) Latin American literature academic, writer[152],[153],[154],[155],[156],[157]

Qatar

• Zahra Mal Allah, first published woman author in Qatar.
• Kulthum al-Ghanim / Kulthum 'Ali al-Ghanim is a Qatari short story writer.
• Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar is a South Asian American writer based in Qatar
• Nura Al Sa'd (born 1964) is a Qatari short-story writer.

Romania

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• Ioana Bantaș (Elena Mustaṭǎ) (1937–1987), Romanian poet (ro)
• Constanța Buzea (1941-2012), Romanian poet. (ro)
• Ioana Emanuela Petrescu (1941–90), Romanian literary critic and essayist

Russia

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• Mariia Avvakumova, Russian poet
• Margareita Agashina/ Margareita Konstantinovna Agashina / Margarita Agashina / Margarita Konstantinovna Agashina (1924-1999)
• Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868–1935), Russian novelist and translator (a.k.a. Ivan Strannik)[158]
• Natal’ia Anichkova
• Nataliia Anufrieva / Anufrieva Nataliia Danilovna/ Natalia Danilovna Anufrieva (1905-1990), Russian poet
• Tatiana Bek / Tat’iana Bek (1949-2005)
• Marina Belianchikova
• Elena Blaginina / Yelena Blaginina / Elena Aleksandrovna Blaginina / Yelena Aleksandrovna Blaginina (1903-1989), Russian children's poet and translator
• Maia Borisova / Maya Borisova (born 1931)
• Vera Sergeyevna Bulich (1898-1954), Russian-Finnish poet, translator and prose writer.
• Natal’ia Burova (1918-1979), Russian poet
• Lidiya Davydovna Chervinskaya (1907-1988), Russian emigre poet.
• Iuliia Drunina
• Elisheva (Russian writer) / Elisaveta Zirkowa (1888-1949), Russian Jewish writer.
• Sofya Engelgardt (1828-1894), Russian short story writer
• Ol’ga Ermolaeva
• Tat’iana Efimenko
• Liudmila Filatova
• Ol’ga Fokina / Olga Fokina / Olga Aleksandrovna Fokina (born 1937) is a Russian poet.
• Tat’iana Glushkova
• Alla Golovina
• Nina Iagodnitseva
• Ada Iakusheva / Ada Yakusheva (1934-2012) was a Russian poet, singer and songwriter
• Elena Isaeva
• Polina Kaganova
• Valentina Kalashnikova
• Galina Kamennaia
• Anna Karavaeva (1893-1979), Russian novelist, journalist and editor.
• Lidiia Khanidrova
• Nadezhda Kondakova
• Khristina Krotokova
• Galina Kuznetsova (1900/1902-1976) / Galina Kuznetsova, Russian emigre poet, prose writer and memoirist.
• Galina Kuznetsova (born 1946) / Galina Kuznetsova
• Anna Kulakova
• Vera Kucherenko
• Valentina Lukoianova
• Elena Grigoryevna Makarova / Elena Makarova (writer) (born 1951), Russian prose writer and essayist
• Anastasia Marchenko (1830-1880), Russian novelist and short story writer
• Mat’ Mariia
• Larisa Miller
• Valeriia Spartakovna Narbikova / Valeria Spartakovna Narbikova / Valeriia Narbikova / Valeria Narbikova (born 1958), Russian writer and painter (ru)
• Valentina Nevinnaia / Valentina Nevinnaya
• Ksenia Nekrasova
• Galina Osinina
• Iuliia Panysheva
• Klavdiia Pestrovo
• Irina Nikolaevna Polianskaia (born 1952), Russian prose writer
• Anna Prismanova
• Elena Ryvina
• Natal’ia Riabinina
• Galina Nikolaevna Shcherbakova / Galina Shcherbakova (1932-2010), Russian prose writer and scriptwriter
• Tatiana Georgievna Shcherbina / Tatiania Shcherbina (born 1954), Russian poet
• Svetlana Shilova
• Tat’iana Smertina
• Svetlana Solozhenkina
• Liubov’ Stolitsa / Lyubov Stolitsa
• Evgeniia Studenskaia / Evgenia Studenskaya / Evgenia Mikhailovna Studenskaya
• Elizaveta Stiuart
• Vera Sukhanova
• Tat’iana Sukhomlina-Leshchenko / Tatyana Leschenko-Sukhomlina / Tatiana Leschenko-Sukhomlina
• Svetlana Syrneva
• Tat’iana Syryshcheva
• Elena Tager
• Larisa Tarakanova
• Liudmila Tat’ianicheva / Lyudmila Tatyanicheva
• Mariia Terent’eva
• Inna Gustavovna Varlamova (Klavdiia Landau) (1922–1990), Russian prose writer
• Larisa Vasil’eva (born 1935), Russian poet
• Elena Vladimirova / Elena L'vovna Vladimirova (1902-1962), Russian poet
• Ekaterina Volchanetskaia (1883-1962)
• Ksenia Zimina

Tomei, ed., Russian Women Writers

Tomei, Christine D., ed. (1999). Russian Women Writers. Vol. 2. Garland. ISBN 0815317972.

1. Nadezhda Teplova / Nadezhda Sergeevna Teplova (1814-1848)
2. Sof'ia Zakrevskaia (1797?-1865?)
3. Elizaveta Kologrivova (1809-1884)
4. Vera Merkur'eva / Vera Aleksandrovna Merkurieva (1876-1943)
5. Natal'ia Il'ina / Natalia Ilyina / Natalya Ilyina (1914-1994)
6. Galina Kuznetsova (1900-1986)
7. Elizaveta Mnatsakanova (1922-2019)
8. Larisa Vasilieva / Larisa N. Vasil'eva / Larissa Vasilyeva (1935-2018)

Rwanda

• Jeannine Herrmann-Grisius, French-language novelist.
• Thérèse Muamini, French-language novelist.
• Marie-Aimable Umurerwa, French-language autobiographical writer.

St. Lucia

• Melania Daniel (born 1962) is a St. Lucian poet

Saudi Arabia

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• Sayidet Al Hijaz

Senegal

See also: List of Senegalese writers

See also fr:Catégorie:Femme_de_lettres_sénégalaise missing from English wikipedia and SENEGALESE WOMEN WRITERS - Women In French

• Maimouna Abdoulaye (born 1949), Senegalese autobiographical novelist
• Aissatou Cissokho, Senegalese Francophone novelist.
• Aïcha Diouri, Moroccan-Senegalese writer.
• Anne Dogbe, Senegalese writer
• Anne-Marie Niane (born 1950), Vietnam-born Senegalese writer.

Serbia

See also: sr:Категорија:Српске књижевнице missing from English wikipedia

• Ljubica Arsić (sh)
• Mirjana Bobić-Mojsilović (sh)
• Marina Bojić (sh)
• Gordana Ćirjanić (sh)
• Božidarka Damnjanović Kika (sh)
• Ivana Kuzmanović (sh)
• Jelena J. Dimitrijević (sh)
• Vojislava Latković (sh)
• Anđelka Pavić (sh)
• Gordana Pavić (sh)
• Spomenka Stefanović-Pululu (sh)
• Ljiljana Vojvodić (sh)

Singapore

• Choo Waihong, author of The Kingdom of Women, about the Mosuo in China

Slovakia

See also: sk:Kategória:Ženy v slovenskej literatúre missing from English wikipedia

• Jana Bodnárová[159]
• Gabriela Futová[160]
• Jana Juráňová[161]
• Daniela Kapitáňová[162]
• Stanislava Chrobáková Repar (born 1960) is a Slovak-Slovene poet, translator and literary critic.
• Lýdia Vadkerti-Gavorníková[163]

Slovenia

• Ivanka Anzic-Klemencic (1867-1960) was a Slovenian writer
• Fran Celestin (1843-1895) was a Slovenian writer and essayist

South Africa

• Tertia Albertyn, life writing, [164]
• Shaida Kazie Ali, fiction, [165]
• Marion Baraitser
• Devarakshanam Govinden / Betty Govinden academic, poet, author of Sister Outsiders
• Ina Rousseau (1926–2005) (af)
• Malebo Sephodi is a South African activist and writer.[166]

Sri Lanka

See also: ta:பகுப்பு:இலங்கைப் பெண் எழுத்தாளர்கள் missing from English wikipedia

• Jane Goonetileke / S. Jane Goonetileke was a 19th-century Sri Lankan writer of short stories.

Spain

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See also: Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-bibliographical Guide

• Laia de Ahumada
• Luisa Alberca Lorente
• María Alfaro
• Cecilia Alonso i Manant (pseud. Cecilia A. Màntua)
• Ester de Andreis (es)
• Elena Andrés
• Teresa d'Arenys, poet
• Agnès Armengol de Badia (cat)
• Ana María Badell
• Margarita Ballester, (es)
• Teresa Barbero Sánchez (or Teresa Barbero)
• Llúcia Bartre
• Maria Gracia Bassa (cat)
• Ruth Baza author and journalist
• Angélicka Becker
• Margarida Beneta Mas i Pujol[167]
• Maria Beneyto i Cuñat, (es)
• Felicidad Blanc de Panero (es)
• Maria Do Cebreiro (born 1976) is a Galician-language poet and critical theorist.[168]
• Merche Diolch (pen name Aileen Diolch) [169] [170]
• Ana María Fagundo (1938-2010), Spanish poet.
• Mercè Ibarz (cat)
• Maria-Mercé Marçal (1952-1998) was a Catalan poet.[171]
• Isabel-Clara Simó Monllor (born 1943) is a Catalan writer.[172]
• Sílvia Alcàntara, (cat)
• Antonia de Alarcón -- see es:Antonia de Alarcón
• Magdalena del Espíritu Santo -- see es:Magdalena del Espíritu Santo
• María de Guevara -- see es:María de Guevara
• Marta de Nevares (1591–1632) -- see es:Marta de Nevares

Dramatists

• Halma Angélico
• Adelina Aparicio
• Sofía Blasco
• María Teresa Borragán
• Condesa de San Luis
• Trudi Graa
• Anita Prieto
• Dolores Ramos de la Vega
• Matilde Ras
• Margarita Robles (dramatist)

Suriname

See also: nl:Categorie:Surinaams schrijver missing from English wikipedia and es:Categoría:Escritoras de Surinam missing from English wikipedia

Sweden

See also: fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres suédoise missing from English wikipedia

• Sigrid Adams-Klingberg (sv), children's writer
• Karin Adlersparre (sv)
• Anna-Lisa Almqvist (sv), children's writer
• Christina Alvner (sv), children's writer
• Gunila Ambjörnsson (sv), children's writer
• Christina Andersson (sv), children's writer
• Heidi Avellan (sv)
• Susanne Boll (writer) (sv), crime writer
• Marianne Cedervall (sv), crime writer
• Ingrid Elfberg (sv), crime writer
• Ingrid Hedström (sv), crime writer
• Marianne Jeffmar (sv), crime writer
• Catharina Kjellberg (sv), crime writer
• Elisabet Kågerman (sv), crime writer
• Ninni Schulman (sv), crime writer
• Ingegerd Stadener (sv), crime writer
• Helena Trotzenfeldt (sv), crime writer
• Eva Wikander, Astrid Lindgren Prize 1994
• Anna-Sofia Winroth (sv), crime writer

Switzerland

See also: fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres suisse missing from English wikipedia

• Margrit Baur (born 1937), Swiss novelist and writer of short prose.
• Regula Engel (1761-1853), Swiss autobiographical and travel writer.
• Marie-Christine Horn, writer
• Micheline Louis-Courvoisier, historian, writer
• Olga Meyer (teacher) (1889-1972) was a Swiss teacher and children's writer
• Elisabeth Meylan (born 1937), Swiss novelist, short story writer and poet.
• Margrit Schriber (born 1939), Swiss novelist and short story writer.
• Franziska Stoecklin (1894-1931), Swiss poet and artist.
• Marie Walden, pseudonym for Marie Henriette Bitzius (1834-1900), Swiss short story writer.
• Gertrud Wilker (1924-1984), Swiss novelist, short story writer and poet.

Syria

See also: ar:تصنيف:كاتبات سوريات missing from English wikipedia; [

Taiwan

See also: zh:Category:台灣女性作家 missing in English wikipedia

Tajikistan

See also: fa:نویسندگان زن اهل تاجیکستان missing in English wikipedia

Tanzania

• Jacqueline Kibacha, poet.

Thailand

• Supunpasaj Supasiri (born 1948), Thai short-story writer and memoirist

Togo

• Emilie Anifranie Ehah, also connected with Senegal.

Trinidad and Tobago

• Judy Miles (born 1942) is a poet from Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

More here: fr:Catégorie:Femme de lettres tunisienne missing in English wikipedia

• 'Zakiya Abd al-Qadir, Tunisian novelist.
• Sharifa 'Arabawi (born 1950), Tunisian short story writer.
• Hayat Balshaykh / Hayat Bin al-Shaykh / Ḥayāt Bin al-Shaykh (born 1943), Tunisian short story writer and poet.
• Zubayda Bashīr (born 1938), Tunisian poet.
• Lamiya' Bulhajj, Tunisian poet.
• Nafila Dhahab (born 1947), Tunisian short story writer.
• Fatima al-Duraydi (born 1952), Tunisian poet
• Rabi'a al-Farshishi, Tunisian short story writer.
• Béhija Gaaloul (born 1946), Tunisian poet and novelist.
• Jélila Hafsia (born 1929), Tunisian novelist.
• Alia Mabrouk, Tunisian novelist.
• Fatma Ben Mahmoud, poet and fiction writer
• Aroussia Nalouti / Arusiya Naluti / Arusiya al-Naluti (born 1950), Tunisian novelist and essayist.
• Shafiqa al-Sahili (born 1955), Tunisian short story writer.
• Na'ima al-Sayd (born 1945), Tunisian short story writer.
• Rashida al-Sharini, Tunisian short shory writer.
• Khayra al-Shaybani (born 1950), Tunisian short story writer.
• Rashida al-Turki, Tunisian short story writer.
• Najat al-'Udwani (born 1958), Tunisian poet.

Turkey

See also Women Writers of Turkey

Uganda

• Judith Kakonge of Femrite
• Hope Keshubi
• Rosemary Kyarimpa of Femrite
• Margaret Ntakalimaze of Femrite
• Jane Okot p'Bitek
• Christine Oryema-Lalobo
• Philomena Rwabukuku of Femrite

Ukraine

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• Ganna Barvinok (1828-1911), Ukrainian writer

United Kingdom

• Annemarie Austin (born 1943), English poet.
• Connie Bensley (born 1929), English poet.
• Charlotte Beverley (fl. 1792), poet.
• Elisabeth Bletsoe (born 1960) is an English poet.
• Elspeth Boog Watson (born 1900), Scottish author
• Judith Boulbie (died 1706), religious polemicist.
• Nancy Brodbelt, Jamaican/British letter writer.
• Mary Brotherton Brook (1726-1782), polemicist.
• Indiana Brooks (fl. 1789), novelist.
• Anne Bryton (fl. 1780), poet novelist.
• Phillipina Burton / Phillipina Hill (fl. 1768-1787), poet and autobiographer.
• Harriet Chilcot/Harriet Meziere
• Chris Collett, detective/mystery writer
• Adelaide de Condet (fl. 12th C.) (a.k.a. Adelaide de Chesney, Alice de Condet), patron
• Ann, Countess of Coventry (1673-1763), English religious writer.
• Jane Crofts (fl. 1800), English writer of an ostensible autobiography.
• Katy Darby, writer.
• Arabella Davies (1753-1787), English letter writer and diarist.
• Anne Dawe (fl. 1770), English novelist.
• Alexis Deacon, children's book author and illustrator
• Abigail Colman Dennie / Jane Turell.
• Melanie Dobson, writer.
• Dorothy Easton (born 1889), novelist and memoirist
• Harriet English (fl. 1799), children's writer.
• Emma Elliot a.k.a. Margery Hollis (1850–1927), novelist and sister of Anne Elliot (novelist)
• Helen Eve, writer.
• Sarah Farrell (fl. 1792), English poet.
• Sarah Flaxmer (fl. 1790s), religious polemicist.
• Elizabeth Garrett (born 1958), English poet.
• Isabella Griffiths (1713?-1764), English editor and probable contributor to the Monthly Review’’.
• Kit Higson was an English children's writer. She was born in Blackburn.
• Anne Hughes (writer) (fl. 1784-1790), poet, novelist and dramatist.
• Maria Hunter (fl. 1774-1799), actress and novelist.
• Liane Jones
• Francesca Kay, writer.
• Sarah Lansdell (fl. 1796-1798), English novelist.
• Mrs Letches (fl. 1792), English poet.
• Maria Logan (fl. 1793), poet.
• Mrs Martin (f.1798-1801), UK [173]
• Helen Muir, British novelist.
• Margaret Ogle (fl. 1742), poet.
• Catherine Parry (died 1788), Welsh novelist.
• Winifred Pares, children’s writer.
• Mary Elizabeth Parker (fl.1872), UK [174]
• Margaret Paston / Margaret Mautby (d. 1484), contributor to the Paston Letters (redirect to book)
• Susanna Pearson [175]
• M. Peddle (fl. 1785-89), English miscellaneous writer.
• Amelia Pickering (fl. 1788), poet.
• Priscilla Poynton / Priscilla Pickering (1750-1801), English poet.
• Frances Presley (born 1952) is an English poet
• Elizabeth Purbeck - joint article with Jane (below)
• Jane Purbeck - joint article with Elizabeth (above)
• R. Roberts (writer) (1730?-1788), English poet, translator and sermon writer.
• Elizabeth Rolt (fl. 1768), English poet.
• Mary Eliza Rogers(1828-1910), Travel writer, author of "Domestic Life in Palestine" republished 1989.
• Hannah Rowe (fl. 1785), poet.
• Angela Royston (born 1945), writer of non-fiction books for children. [176]
• Charlotte Elizabeth Sanders / Charlotte Elizabeth Saunders / Charlotte Sanders / Charlotte Saunders (fl. 1787-1803), English novelist, poet and children's writer.
• Bettina Selby, travel writer.
• Sarah Emma Spencer (fl. 1788), English novelist.
• Chloe Stopa-Hunt (born 1989) is an English poet.
• Augusta Amelia Stuart
• Judith M. Taylor, writer.
• Miss Taylor (fl. 1799), novelist.
• Mrs Taylor (fl. 1685), poet.
• Elizabeth Troop, British novelist.
• Elizabeth Tweddell (1824-1899), aka Florence Cleveland, poet from North Yorkshire[177]
• Jordan Erica Webber, writer and presenter on The Gadget Show.
• Maria Weylar (fl. 1770), poet.
• Mrs A. Woodfin (fl.1756-64), novelist. [178]

United States

• Sharbari Ahmed, author of The Ocean of Mrs. Nagai: Stories
• Jane Allen / Jane Shore (1916-1970), American novelist and short story writer, works adapted twice to film[179]
• Lucy Allen (poet) (fl.1784-1788), American poet.
• Harriet Ashbrook (1898–1946), American novelist and member of the League of American Writers
• Edna Mae Baker, short story writer, adapted to film by Oscar Micheaux[180]
• Anna Beeman (born 1739?), American hymn writer.
• Carolyn Vance Bell, journalist who helped found the Women's National Press Club.
• Elizabeth Bradford (poet) (1663?-1731), American poet.
• Michelle Brafman
• Tajuana Butler, author of Sorority Sisters, Hand-Me-Down Heartache, Just My Luck
• Barbara Callahan (1935-2009), detective/mystery writer
• Antonia Castañeda/Antonia Castaneda/Antonia I. Castaneda, Chicana feminist historian
• Margaret Coghlan (1762?-1787), American-British autobiographer.
• Lori Ann Coleman (born 1968), African American writer, singer
• Andrea Cremer, Young adult literature, [181]
• Jennifer Danielle Crumpton, author of Femmevangelical
• Kaitlin Curtice, Potawatomi Nation, author of Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God [182][183]
• Crystal Black Davis, author of Shaken and Stirred; blogger, Entertaining: Purveyors of the Lost Art
• Julie Deaver, American ALA award-winning novelist and screenwriter
• Anita Davis-DeFoe
• Rosette Delbo (1927-2012), American theater critic, translator and authority on Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.[184][185]
• Red Durkin, transgender activist and author, comedian and vlogger, as well as editor of PrettyQueer.com
• Leslie Eisdale, author of Slow Burn and Sundance
• Lisa Fernow (born 1957), detective/mystery writer
• Sarah Fiske (1652-1692), American spiritual autobiographer.
• Elizabeth Fleming (fl. 1756), Irish-American author of captivity narrative.
• Mary French (poet) (fl. 1703), American poet.
• Sarah Annie Frost Shields (wrote multiple works of fiction and non fiction, including Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society, 1859)
• Amy Johnson Frykholm (born 1976), American magazine editor at The Christian Century and author of nonfiction, including "Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America."
• Anna Tompson Hayden (born 1648), American poet.
• Julie Lekstrom Himes
• Jemima Howe (1725?-1805), American autobiographical writer.
• Belinda Hurmence (born 1921) is an American children's writer.
• Judith Kelly (novelist), American novelist and winner of the Harper Novel Prize[186]
• Nina Killham, American food writer and novelist.[187][188][189]
• Jennifer Lane, author of To Fall in Love and its film adpatation.
• Edith Layton (1938-2009), prolific author primarily known for the Regency novel who also published under the name Edith Felber.
• Cleo Lucas, American novelist[190]
• Leslie Maitland (journalist), New York Times investigative reporter and author of Crossing the Borders of Time
• Helmi Mattson (1890-1974), prolific essayist, novelist, and poet who edited the Finnish-language Toveritar (Woman Comrade) and Työlaisnainen (Working Woman) in the USA.
• Alexandra Monir, Iranian-American author of many YA titles including Timeless (Monir novel) and DC comics and Disney adaptations including Black Canary: Breaking Silence.
• Suzana Norberg, American screenwriter of the film Libertyville
• Judy Norsigian American co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves (redirect to book)
• Novella O'Hara (d. 1997) San Francisco columnist, Question Man.
• Sarah Osborn (1693-1775) / Sarah Osborn (1714-1796), American autobiographer and letter writer.
• Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), American author, editor, & translator; Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz; a biography, Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance, etc.
• Bette Pesetsky (born 1932), American short story writer.
• Astrid Peters / Astrid Meighan, short story author published in The New Yorker numerous times in 1940s-50s; appeared in 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories
• Nani Power, novelist: Crawling at Night, The Sea of Tears, The Good Remains, and others, 2 are NYT notable books.
• Molly Preston, screenwriter of Freedom, Wisconsin
• Helen Leah Reed, children's literature
• Adele Rickett (1919-2017), professor of Asian languages and literature; spy; ex-wife of W. Allyn Rickett.
• Susanna Rogers (born 1711?), American poet.
• Kathryn Morgan Ryan, author of "A Private Battle" and "The Betty Tree". Assisted with writing The Longest Day (book)
• Cat Sebastian, American writer of queer historical romance.
• Eunice Smith (fl. 1791-92), American polemicist.
• Mary Spaulding (born 1769?), American autobiographer.
• Sylvia Tate, American novelist and short story writer, works adapted twice to film [191]
• Mari Uyehara, food writer, 2019 James Beard Foundation Award winner[192]
• Hulda Saenger Walter (1867–1929) Texas poet of German language verse
• Anne Warner, American fiction writer.
• Beverly Wettenstein, NY based journalist, [193], interview
• Jennifer Wojtowicz, author of The Boy Who Grew Flowers
• Lydia Willis / Lydia Fish (1709-1767), American letter writer.
• Jane R. Plitt, businesswoman turned author and historian
• Mary Gilliland, American poet, author of "The Devil's Fools" and "The Ruined Walled Castle Garden."

Uruguay

More here: es:Categoría:Escritoras de Uruguay missing from English wikipedia

Venezuela

More here: es:Categoría:Escritoras de Venezuela missing from English wikipedia

• Raiza Andrade, (es)
• Laura Antillano, (es)
• Mariela Arvelo, (es)
• Margarita Belandria, (es)
• Carmen Verde Arocha, (es)
• Silda Cordoliani, (es)
• Victoria De Stefano, (es)
• María Antonieta Flores, (es)
• Virginia Gil de Hermoso, (es)
• Jacqueline Goldberg, (es)
• Moraima Guanipa, (es)
• Inés de Cuevas, (es)
• Gabriela Kizer, (es)
• Mireya Kríspin, (es)
• Astrid Lander, (es)
• María Luisa Lázzaro, (es)
• Leila Macor, (es)
• Gloria Martín, (es)
• María Teresa Boulton, (es)
• Ophir Alviárez, (es)
• Indira Páez, (es
• Yanett Polanco, (es)
• Lolita Robles de Mora, (es)
• Emira Rodríguez, (es)
• Elizabeth Schön, (es)
• Mireya Tabuas, (es)
• Lucila Velásquez, (es)
• Carmen Cristina Wolf, (es)

Viet Nam

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Wales

Redlinks from the Dictionary of Welsh Biography:

• Winifred Mair Griffiths (1916–1996), educator

Yemen

• Yasmin 'Abd Allah Rajih (born 1953) is a Yemeni poet.

Zambia

• Nora Mumba, Zambian writer and women's rights activist.

Zimbabwe

• Juliana Lwanda (born 1951) is a Zimbabwean Shona playwright.

Unsorted

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• Chinle Miller, detective/mystery writer

Early women novelists

Those from Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel are marked with an asterisk:

• Mrs. Carver
• Mrs Howell*

Francophone African women writers

• Mariam Abdou
• Maïmouna Abdoulaye
• Marie-Louise Abia
• Marie-Rose Abomo-Maurin
• Josette D. Abondio
• Rosemonde Ahou de Saintange
• Marie-Danielle Aka
• Marie Gisèle Aka
• Henriette Akofa
• Francoise Akoua
• Barbara Akplogan
• Assamala Amoi
• Kouméalo Anaté
• Aimée Andria
• Emilie Anifrani Eha
• Danièle Aoué-Tchany
• Clotilde Armstrong
• Michèle Assamoua
• Annick Assemian
• Marie Atcho
• Peggy Lucie Auleley
• Myriam Bah
• Géraldine Ida Bakima Pounzda
• Jeannette Balou-Tchichelle
• Françoise Balogun
• Florence Lina Bamona-Mouissou
• Nadine Bari
• Aïssatou Barry
• Virginie Belibi
• Mélissa Bendome
• Monique Bessomo
• Oumou Cathy Bèye
• Fatou Biramah
• Noëlle Bizi Bazouma
• Sylvie Bokoko
• Andagui Bongo Ayouma
• Lucienne Bonnot-Bangui
• Marie Louise Borremans
• Lima-Baleka Bosek'Ilolo
• Francy Brethenoux-Seguin
• Bénédicte Brocher
• Amaka Brocke
• Corinne Calandra Senoussi
• Marie-Anne Caro
• Kouly Chaold
• Fatou Fanny Cissé
• Aïssatou Cissokho
• Josiane Cointet
• Simporé Simone Compaore
• Aurore Costa
• Kadiatou Coulibaly
• Régine Dang
• Mâh Dao
• Marie Claire Dati Sabze
• Théodora de Kirig-Tinga
• Stéphanie de La Gorce
• Madeleine de Lallé
• Elisabeth Delaygue Cheyssial
• Aïssatou Diagne Deme
• Josette Desclercs Abondio
• Marion Diby Zinnanti
• Fatou Dial Ndiaye
• Bilguissa Diallo
• Juliana Diallo
• Aïssatou Diam
• Cécile-Ivelyse Diamoneka
• Fatou Diarra
• Oumou Cheick Diarra
• Gina Dick
• Salla Dieng
• Yaram Dieye
• Kady Guissé Diop
• Meissa Diop
• Coumba Diouf (writer)
• Aïcha Diouri
• Marie Dô
• Pélandrova Dréo
• Agnès du Parge
• Marie-France Dupari-Danaho
• Marie Félicité Ebokea
• Edwidge Edorh
• Emilie Efinda
• Geneviève (writer) / Mbarga Kouma Ekomba
• Akoua Christiane Ekue
• Lauren Ekué
• Alice Endamne
• Stella V. I. Engama
• Brigitte Ondoa Essono
• Nathalie Etoké
• Marie-José Evezo'o Mvôndo
• Marie Ange Evindissi
• Elizabeth. See Moundo Ewombe-Moundo
• Lima Fabien
• K. Fatym
• Olga Faure Olory
• Aleth Felix-Tchicaya
• Marcelline Fila Matsocota
• Aissatou Forêt Diallo
• Christelle Nadia Fotso
• Mercédès Fouda
• Absa Gassama
• Anne-Sophie Gindroz
• Jeanne Gouamba
• Aïssatou Guido
• Zarra Guiro
• Sirantou Haïdara
• Inna Hampâté Bâ
• Corinne Happy
• Jeannine Herrmann-Grisius
• Marie-José Hourantier
• Calissa Ikama
• Victoire Issembe
• Charlotte Jacquot
• Oklomin Kacou
• Christine Kalonji
• Joséphine Kama-Bongo
• Sylvie Kandé
• Anne Kanga
• Fatoumata Kane
• Ndack Kane
• Sandra Pierrette Kanzié
• Dia Kassembe
• Kady Kaya
• Annick Kayitesi
• Berthe Kayitesi
• Bestine Kazadi Ditabala
• Doris Kelanou
• Eurydice Kendjo
• Jeanne L. Kezo
• Beatrix Kilchenmann-Bekha
• Léa Kimbekete
• Marie-Angèle Kingué
• Marie-Constance Komara
• Alimatou Koné
• Boundou Koné
• Fibla Koné
• Gaël Koné
• Akissi Kouadio
• Adèle Kouassi
• Emilie Koumba
• Mélika Koussoh
• Genevieve Koutou Guhl
• Céline Kula-Kim
• Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
• Ayavi Lake
• Céline Lamy
• Francine Laurans
• Josette Lima
• Binéka Danièle Lissouba
• Sanou Lô
• Anriette Madah
• Miryl Nadia Magoulounou Eteno
• Nika Mahouse
• Anne-Cécile Makosso-Akendengué
• Mireille Malonga
• Geneviève Mande
• Eveline Mankou-Ntsimba
• Honorine Mare
• Mary Lee Martin-Koné
• Nathalie Matingou
• Hortense Mayaba
• Lucie Mba
• Elise Mballa Meka
• Marie Charlotte Mbarga Kouma
• Ndèye Comba Mbengue Diakhate
• Nathalie M'Dela-Mounier
• Mariama Méité
• Régine Mfoumou-Arthur
• Pélagie Miézan Nogbou
• Bernadette Monnet Badjo
• Isabelle Montplaisir
• Virginie Mouanda Kibinde
• Eugénie Mouayini Opou
• Elizabeth-Ewombè Moundo
• Katia Mounthault
• Fatimane Moussa Aghali
• Gilda Rosemonde Moutsara-Gambou
• Justine M'Poyo Kassa-Vubu
• Viviane Mpozagara
• Thérèse Muamini
• Astrid Mujinga
• Madeleine Mukamuganga
• Danièle Merveille. Mvoto
• Elisabeth F Mweya Tol'ande
• Rosalie Nana
• Justine Nankam
• Alix Ndefeu
• Aminata Ndiaye
• Mariama Nianthio Ndiaye
• Ndèye Boury Ndiaye
• Gisèle Ndong Biyogo
• Bertille. Ndonkou Atiogue
• Mariama. Ndoye
• Jeanne Ngo Maï
• Geneviève Ngosso Kouo
• Amani N'Guessan
• Marie Julie Nguetse
• T.S. N'Guetta
• Régine Nguini Dang
• Anne Marie Niane
• Hadja Maïmouna Niang
• Madjiguène Niang
• Goley Niantié Lou
• Adfèle Nikiéma
• Suzy Henrique Nikiéma
• Josette Evelyne Njock
• Rabiatou Njoya
• Nadine Nkengué
• Marie-Gisèle Nkom
• Chantal Julie Nlend
• Pertpétue Nshimirimana
• Ninelle N'Siloulou
• Diur N'tumb
• Nadine Nyangoma
• Christiane Okang Dyemma
• Prisca Olouna
• Jhoyce Oto
• Valérie Pascaud-Junot
• Grâce-Emmanuelle Peh
• Evelyne Pèlerin Ngo Maa
• Anne Piette
• Claire Porquet
• Nadine Prudhomme
• Cristiane Rémion-Granel
• Amoussa Rockyath
• Sonia Rolley
• Clara Roux
• Gbané Salimata
• Alidjanatou Saliou-Arekpa
• Stella Samba dia Ndela
• Fatoumata Sano
• Jacqueline Scott-Lemoine
• Marinette Secco
• Aïssatou Seck
• Charlotte Seck
• Rahmatou Seck Samb
• Sylvia Serbin
• Marie-Simone Séri
• Ama Séwa
• Fatoumata Fathy Sidibé
• Mama Kâaba Soumaré
• Penda Soumaré
• Rosannès de Souza
• Simone Sow
• Adama Sow Dièye
• Khadi Sy Bizet
• Laklaba Talakaena
• Fanta-Taga Tembely
• Kélinan Tesan
• Aïssatou Thiam
• Marie Bernadette Tiendrébéogo
• Abibatou Traoré Kemgné
• Oumou Ahmar Traoré
• Marie-Léontine Tsibinda
• Marie-Rose Turpin
• Regina Ubanatu
• Françoise Ugochukwu
• Marie-Aimable Umurerwa
• Marie-Béatrice Umutesi
• Chantal Umutesi
• Albertine Uwayisaba
• Célia Vieyra
• Atë-Maïs Villedieu
• Caroline Angèle Yao
• Annie Yapobi
• Bomou Yeveny
• Alix Trinida Yoka
• Julienne Zanga
• Irène Zangué
• Ida Zirignon
• Thérèse Zossou Essémè

Works

• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies … by Mary Astell … LE
• Casa Guidi Windows … by Elizabeth Barrett Browning … LE
• Castle Nowhere … by Constance Fenimore Woolson … LE
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