List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
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Over 400 women writers are listed in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, edited by Jane Eldridge Miller, Routledge, 2001.
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- Leila AbouzeidLeila AbouzeidLeila Abouzeid is a Moroccan author. She writes in Arabic rather than in French and is the first Moroccan woman writer of literature to be translated into English.- Works :...
(born 1950), Moroccan novelist and journalist - Fawziyya Abū Khālid (born 1955), Saudi Arabian poet and essayist
- Evelyne Accad (born 1943), Lebanese-Swiss-US novelist
- Catherine Acholonu (born 1950), Nigerian poet, dramatist, essayist and fiction writer
- Kathy AckerKathy AckerKathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S...
(1947–1997), US novelist and short-story writer - Glenda AdamsGlenda AdamsGlenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...
(1939–2007), Australian novelist - Fleur AdcockFleur AdcockKareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
(born 1934), New Zealand-born poet and translator - Halide Edip AdıvarHalide Edip AdivarHalide Edip Adıvar or Halide Edib Adivar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader...
(1884–1964) Turkish novelist and politician - Opal Palmer AdisaOpal Palmer AdisaOpal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born writer, artist and teacher. Since 1993, Opal Palmer Adisa has taught literature and served as Chair of the Ethnic Studies/Cultural Diversity Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Dr. Adisa has two masters degrees from San Francisco...
(born 1954), Jamaican novelist and poet - Etel AdnanEtel AdnanEtel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist.In 2003 MELUS, the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, called Adnan "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today."She has said, "As for any...
(born 1925), Lebanese-US poet, novelist and essayist - Adalet AğaoğluAdalet AğaoğluAdalet Ağaoğlu is a Turkish novelist and playwright.-Publishing career:As an author, a playwright and a human rights activist, she became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey...
(born 1929), Turkish novelist and short-story writer - Marjorie AgosinMarjorie AgosínMarjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty...
(born 1955), Chilean-US poet, essayist and critic - Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar (born 1962), Philippine poet and essayist
- Mila Auilar (born 1949), Philippine poet
- Ama Ata AidooAma Ata AidooProfessor Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author and playwright.-Life:She grew up in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and Maame Abasema. She was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964...
(born 1942), Ghanaian writer and activist - Leah Aini (born 1962), Israeli poet and fiction writer
- Grace AkelloGrace AkelloGrace Akello is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician.-Life:An Iteso born near Soroti, Akello studied English and history at Makarere University. She worked as a magazine editor in Kenya and Tanzania before travelling to England in 1981. A mother of four sons, she and her second...
(born c. 1940s), Ugandan poet, essayist and folklorist - Sonja ÅkessonSonja ÅkessonSonja Åkesson was a Swedish poet, writer, and artist.Sonja Åkesson first discovered her talent for writing at 28 after moving to Stockholm, after her divorce from Nils Westberg, a carpenter. They had two children at the time of the divorce and Sonja was expecting a baby...
(1926–1977), Swedish poet - Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina) (born 1937), Russian poet and prose writer
- Florenţa AlbuFlorenţa AlbuFlorenţa Albu was a Romanian poet.-Biography:She studied at the Gheorghe Şincai Bucureşti from 1948 to 1952. She was on the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bucharest, from 1952 to 1957. She worked at the newspaper "Youth Spark" from 1963 to 1965; and the journal "Romanian Life" from...
(born 1934), Romanian poet - Claribel AlegríaClaribel AlegríaClara Isabel Alegría Vides is a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She writes under the pseudonym Claribel Alegría.-Early life:...
(born 1924), Salvadoran novelist and poet - Svetlana Aleksievich (born c. 1948), Belarusian prose writer
- Meena AlexanderMeena AlexanderMeena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in New York City, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College in the and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...
(born 1951), Indian-US poet and novelist - Estrella D. Alfon (1917–1983), Philippine fiction writer and playwright
- Zaynab AlkaliZaynab AlkaliZaynab Alkali is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer.-Works:*The stillborn, Longman, 1984, ISBN 9780582786004*The virtuous woman, Longman Nigeria, 1987, ISBN 9789781395895...
(born 1952), Nigerian novelist, short-story writer and essayist - Paula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation...
(born 1939), US poet, essayist and novelist - Isabel AllendeIsabel AllendeIsabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
(born 1942), Chilean novelist and journalist - Phyllis Shand AllfreyPhyllis Shand AllfreyPhyllis Byam Shand Allfrey was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean....
(1908–1986), Dominican novelist, poet and journalist - Ruth AlmogRuth Almog-Life:Almog was born 15 May 1936 in Petah Tikva, Israel to parents who immigrated from Hamburg in 1933. She studied at David Yellin Teachers College, and at Tel Aviv University...
(born 1936), Israeli novelist and journalist - Lisa AltherLisa AltherLisa Alther is an American author and novelist. Her first name is pronounced as if it were spelled Liza.-Biography:...
(born 1944), US novelist - Merlie M. AlunanMerlie M. Alunan-Life:She graduated Silliman University with an MA in Creative Writing in 1974.She teaches at the Creative Writing Center, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College.She lives in Tacloban City.-Awards:*Lillian Jerome Thornton Award for Nonfiction...
(born 1943), Philippine poet - Julia AlvarezJulia ÁlvarezJulia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
(born 1950), Dominican-US novelist and poet - Miriam Alves (born 1952), Brazilian poet and short-story writer
- Ifi AmadiumeIfi AmadiumeDr. Ifi Amadiume is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist. She joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S. in 1993.-Biography:...
(born 1947), Nigerian poet, ethnographer and essayist - AmbaiC. S. LakshmiC. S. Lakshmi is a Tamil feminist writer and independent researcher in women's studies from India. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai .-Personal life:...
(C. S. Lakshmi) (born 1944), Indian writer and researcher - Khalidah Adibah Amin (born 1936), Malaysian columnist, essayist and scriptwriter
- Mahshid AmirShahiMahshid AmirshahiMahshid Amirshahi is a contemporary Iranian writer born in Kermanshah. She is an active proponent of establishing a secular democracy in Iran, and as an opponent of the current Islamic republic, for which she moved into exile in France after the 1979 Iranian revolution.During the revolution,...
(born 1940), Iranian novelist - Fadhma Aïth Mansour Amrouche (1882?-1967), Algerian memoirist
- Loula Anagnostaki, Greek dramatist
- Anchan (Anchalee Vivatanachai) (born 1952), Thai story story writer and poet
- Barbara Anderson (born 1926), New Zealand novelist and short story writer
- Jessica AndersonJessica AndersonJessica Margaret Queale Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won several awards and has been published in Britain and the United States.-Life:...
(born 1916), Australian novelist - Gail Anderson-DargatzGail Anderson-DargatzGail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz is a Canadian novelist.Anderson-Dargatz was born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia and studied creative writing at the University of Victoria...
(born 1963), Canadian novelist and short story writer - Emma Andiievs'ka (Andiyewska) (born 1931), Ukrainian poet and prose writer
- Albalucía Angel (born 1939), Colombian novelist and playwright
- Maya AngelouMaya AngelouMaya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
(born 1928), US poet and autobiographer - Katerina Anghelaki-RookeKaterina Anghelaki-Rooke-Life:She received grants from the Ford Foundation in 1972 and 1975.She studied at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.She was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United States in 1980 to 1981....
(born 1939), Greek poet - Anjana AppachanaAnjana AppachanaAnjana Appachana is a novelist of Indian origin who lives in the United States. She has written a book of short stories titled Incantations and a novel titled Listening Now.-Biography:...
, Indian novelist and short story writer - Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-1983), Japanese novelist and dramatist
- Nina Björk ÁrnadóttirNina Björk ÁrnadóttirNina Björk Árnadóttir was an Icelandic playwright, poet, and novelist.-Life:She graduated from Reykjavík Theatre Company Actors Training School in 1965.She studied at University of Copenhagen....
(born 1941), Icelandic poet, playwright and novelist - Christine ArnothyChristine ArnothyChristine Arnothy is a French writer. She has written numerous books, including J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir . It is a book following her life and escape from Budapest during the Second World War.She left Hungary, crossing the border with her parents...
(born 1930), French autobiographer, novelist and short story writer - Ashapurna Devi (1909-1995). Indian novelist and short story writer
- Raḍwā 'Āshūr (born 1946), Egyptian novelist and literary critic
- Leilah AssunçãoLeilah AssunçãoLeilah Assunção, or Leilah Assumpção is a Brazilian dramatist, actress and writer. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Maria Adelaide Amaral....
(Maria de Lourdes Torres de Almeida Prado Teixeira) (born 1944), Brazilian dramatist and novelist - Thea AstleyThea AstleyThea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
(born 1925), Australian novelist - Kate AtkinsonKate AtkinsonKate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...
(born 1952), British novelist - Samar al-'Aṭṭār (born 1945), Syrian novelist and translator
- Margaret AtwoodMargaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
(born 1939), Canadian novelist and poet - AudeAudeAude is a department in south-central France named after the river Aude. The local council also calls the department "Cathar Country".Aude is also a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother...
(Claudette Carbonneau-Tissot) (born 1947), Canadian novelist and short story writer - Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi, AC is a Burmese opposition politician and the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. In the 1990 general election, her National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 81% of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained...
(born 1945), Burmese writer and politician - Samīra 'Azzām (1927-1967), Palestinian short story writer, journalist and translator
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- Mariama BâMariama BaMariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from [African] traditions...
(1929–1981), Senegalese novelist & essayist - Ingeborg BachmannIngeborg BachmannIngeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna...
(1926–1973), Austrian novelist, short story writer and poet - Liana BadrLiana BadrLiana Badr is a Palestinian novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She was raised in Jericho. She studied at the University of Jordan. She graduated from the Beirut Arab University with a BA in philosophy and psychology...
(born 1951), Palestinian novelist - Bai FengxiBai FengxiBai Fengxi is a Chinese actress, and playwright.She studied at North China People's Revolutionary University.In 1954, she joined the China Youth Theater.She married Yan Zhongying; they have a daughter.-Works:...
(born 1934), Chinese playwright - Beryl BainbridgeBeryl BainbridgeDame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English author from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her psychological novels, often set amongst the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker...
(born 1934), English novelist and short story writer - Salwā BakrSalwa BakrSalwa Bakr is an Egyptian critic, novelist and author. She was born in the Matariyya district in Cairo in 1949. Her father was a railway worker. She studied business at Ain Shams University, gaining a BA degree in 1972. She went on to earn another BA in literary criticism in 1976, before embarking...
(born 1949), Egyptian novelist - Laylā Balabakkī (born 1936), Lebanese novelist, short story writer and journalist
- Solvej Balle (born 1962), Danish prose writer
- Ioana Bantaş (Elena Mustaṭǎ) (1937–1987), Romanian poet
- Maria Banuş (1914–1999), Romanian poet and translator
- Hudā Barakāt (born 1952), Lebanese novelist
- Natalia Vladimirovna Baranskaia (born 1908), Russian prose writer
- Joan BarfootJoan BarfootJoan Louise Barfoot is a Canadian novelist. She has published 11 novels, including Luck , which was a nomineee for the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Critical Injuries , which was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize...
(born 1946), Canadian novelist - Pat BarkerPat BarkerPat Barker CBE, FRSL is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres around themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken.-Personal life:...
(born 1934), English novelist - Fevziye Rahgozar BarlasFevziye Rahgozar BarlasFevziye Rahgozar Barlas is an Afghan poet, and short story writer.-Life:She is the daughter of Shafee Rahgozar.She graduated high school in Kabul, and married Rai Barlas.She graduated from Istanbul University in 1977....
(born 1955), Afghan poet, journalist and short story writer - Christiane BarocheChristiane BarocheChristiane Baroche is a French novelist, and short story writer.She graduated with a BS in 1954.After a scientific career, at the Curie Institute she turned to writing.-Awards:...
(born 1935), French novelist, short story writer and poet - Maria Isabel Barreno (born 1939), Portuguese fiction writer and essayist
- Miryana Ivanova BashevaMiryana Ivanova BashevaMiryana Ivanova Basheva is a Bulgarian poet.She graduated from the University of Sofia in 1972.Her poetry was included in the film The Hedgehog's War.-Works:*Tezhuk Kharakter 1976...
(born 1947), Bulgarian poet - Hannah Bat ShaharHannah Bat ShaharHannah Bat Shahar is an Israeli writer.She received the 1994 Prime Minister`s Prize.She is a Hebrew Language mentor at Yeshiva University.-Works:*Sipurei Ha-Kos , stories, Tcherikover, 1987...
(born 1944), Israeli fiction writer - Nina BawdenNina BawdenNina Bawden CBE is a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.-Life:...
(born 1925), British novelist and children's writer - Ann BeattieAnn BeattieAnn Beattie is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger,...
(born 1947), US short story writer and novelist - Beatrix BeckBéatrix BeckBéatrix Beck was a French writer from Belgian origin.She was born at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, the daughter of the poet Christian Beck. After several jobs, she became the secretary of André Gide, he encouraged her to write about her experiences: her mother's suicide, the war, her poverty, etc...
(born 1914), French-Belgian novelist and poet - Jean BedfordJean BedfordJean Bedford is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction, but who has also written novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction. She is also an editor and journalist, and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.-Life:Bedford was...
(born 1946), Australian novelist and short story writer - Patricia BeerPatricia BeerPatricia Beer was an English poet and critic.She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. She moved away from her religious background as a young adult, becoming a teacher and academic...
(1924–1999), British poet and non-fiction writer - Maya BejeranoMaya BejeranoMaya Bejerano is an Israeli poet.She graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, and from Hebrew University with an M.A...
(born 1949), Israeli poet - Hélé Béji (born 1948), Tunisian essayist
- Gioconda BelliGioconda BelliGioconda Belli is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet.-Early life:Gioconda Belli, of Northern Italian descent, was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975...
(born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist - Louise Bennett (born 1919), Jamaican poet and folklorist
- Netiva Ben Yehuda (born 1928), Israeli author and editor
- Nina Nikolaevna Berberova (1901–1993), Russian prose writer, poet, autobiographer, critic and translator
- Alexandra Berková (born 1949), Czech novelist and essayist
- Sabina BermanSabina BermanSabina Berman is a many faceted writer. Playwright, storyteller, essayist, film and theater director. She is recognized as the most prolific, original, and daring playwright of her generation in the Spanish language...
(born 1955), Mexican playwright - Louky BersianikLouky BersianikLouky Bersianik is a French Canadian novelist.She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de radio et de télévision....
(born 1930), French-Canadian novelist and poet - Agustina Bessa Luís (born 1922), Portuguese novelist
- Marion Bethel (born 1953), Bahamian poet
- Calixthe BeyalaCalixthe BeyalaCalixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian writer who writes in French.She grew up in Douala with her sister. In 1978, She left Cameroon for France...
(born 1961), Cameroonian novelist - Mannu Bhandari (born 1931), Indian fiction writer, playwright and scriptwriter
- Simin Bihbahani (born 1927), Iranian poet
- Stéphanie Corinna Bille (1912–1979), Swiss short story writer, dramatist, poet and novelist
- Raphaële BilletdouxRaphaële BilletdouxRaphaële Billetdoux is a French novelist.She is the daughter of François Billetdoux, and was a companion of the political journalist Paul Guilbert .She was assistant editor on feature films and television....
(born 1951), French novelist - Natalka Bilotserkivets’ (born 1954), Ukrainian poet
- Maeve BinchyMaeve BinchyMaeve Binchy is an Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker. Educated at University College Dublin, she worked as a teacher then a journalist at The Irish Times and later became a writer of novels and short stories.Many of her novels are set in Ireland, dealing with the tensions between...
(born 1940), Irish novelist and short story writer - Bing XinBing XinBingxin was one of the most prolific and esteemed Chinese writers of the 20th Century. Many of her works were written for young readers...
(1900–1999), Chinese poet, fiction writer and essayist - Bint al-Shāti (1913–1998), Egyptian prose writer, short story writer and literary critic
- Sandra BirdsellSandra BirdsellSandra Louise Birdsell, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage....
(born 1942), Canadian novelist - Marie-Claire BlaisMarie-Claire BlaisMarie-Claire Blais, is a Canadian author and playwright.- Life :Born in Quebec City, Quebec, she was educated at a convent school and at Université Laval. It was at Laval that she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges Lévesque, who encouraged her to write and, in 1959, to publish her first...
(born 1939), French-Canadian novelist - Ana BlandianaAna BlandianaAna Blandiana is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vinţu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village.-Literary career:...
(Otolia-Valeria Coman) (born 1942), Romanian poet - Jaroslava Blazková (born 1933), Slovak novelist and editor
- Marion BloemMarion BloemMarion Bloem is a Dutch writer and film maker of Indo descent, best known as author of the literary acclaimed book Geen gewoon Indisch meisje and director of the 2008 feature film Ver van familie .Bloem is a second generation Indo immigrant born into a family of four...
(born 1952), Dutch novelist - Judy BlumeJudy BlumeJudy Blume is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages...
(born 1938), US children's writer and novelist - Merlinda BobisMerlinda BobisMerlinda Carullo Bobis is a contemporary Philippine-Australian writer and academic.Born in Legaspi City, in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. at Aquinas University in Legaspi City...
(born 1959), Philippine-Australian poet, dramatist and fiction writer - Cecil BødkerCecil BødkerCecil Bødker is a Danish writer, most famous for the use of the character "Silas" in her books. In 1977, "The Leopard" won The Mildred L...
(born 1927), Danish novelist - Eavan BolandEavan Boland-Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...
(born 1944), Irish poet and critic - Elena Bonner (born 1923), Russian memoirist
- Boonlua (M. L. Boonlua Kunchon Thepyasuwan) (1911–1984), Thai novelist
- Botan (Supa Sirisingha) (born 1947), Thai novelist, short story writer and children's writer
- Fernanda Botelho (born 1926), Portuguese novelist
- Tereza Boučková (born 1957), Czech prose writer
- Carmen BoullosaCarmen BoullosaCarmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context...
(born 1954), Mexican novelist and poet - Nina BouraouiNina BouraouiNina Bouraoui is a French writer born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Zürich and Abu Dhabi...
(born 1967), French novelist - Marilyn BoweringMarilyn BoweringMarilyn Bowering is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, and currently lives in Sooke, British Columbia...
(born 1949), Canadian poet and novelist - Clare BoylanClare BoylanClare Boylan was an Irish author, journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media....
(born 1948), Irish novelist - Zuzana Brabcová (born 1959), Czech novelist
- Marion Zimmer BradleyMarion Zimmer BradleyMarion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...
(1930–1999), US novelist - Cecilia Manguerra BrainardCecilia Manguerra BrainardCecilia Manguerra Brainard is a Filipina author of fiction based in California, U.S.A.. She was born in Cebu, Philippines, attended St. Theresa's College in Cebu and in San Marcelino, Manila. She also went to Maryknoll College in Quezon City from 1964 to 1968, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts...
(born c. 1948), Philippine fiction writer and essayist - Dionne BrandDionne BrandDionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...
(born 1953), Trinidadian-Canadian poet and essayist - Gerd BrantenbergGerd BrantenbergGerd Mjøen Brantenberg is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer. She is also the cousin of radio and TV entertainer Lars Mjøen....
(born 1941), Norwegian novelist - Jean 'Binta' BreezeJean 'Binta' BreezeJean "Binta" Breeze is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller. She has worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor and teacher. She was awarded in 2003 a Nesta Fellowship of two years, to be held in Cambridge.-Biography:...
(born 1956), Jamaican poet and film writer - Erna BrodberErna BrodberErna Brodber is a Jamaican writer and sociologist. Born in Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, she won the Caribbean and Canadian regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989 for her novel Myal. Brodber currently works as a freelance writer, researcher and lecturer in Jamaica...
(born 1940), Jamaican novelist - Suzanne Brøgger (born 1944), Danish novelist
- Christine Brooke-RoseChristine Brooke-RoseChristine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels.-Biography:...
(born 1923), British novelist and critic - Anita BrooknerAnita BrooknerAnita Brookner CBE is an English language novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.-Early life and education:...
(born 1928), English novelist - Nicole BrossardNicole BrossardNicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
(born 1943), Canadian poet and essayist - Rita Mae BrownRita Mae BrownRita Mae Brown is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time...
(born 1944), US novelist and poet - Christine BrücknerChristine BrücknerChristine Brückner was a German writer.-Life:Christine Brückner was the daughter of the pastor Carl Emde and his wife Clotilde was born in Schmillinghausen at Arolsen, where they also spent up to her move to Kassel in 1934 their childhood.She attended high school in Arolsen and Kassel Christine...
(born 1921), German novelist and fiction writer - Andreas Burnier (Catherine Irma Dessaur) (born 1931), Dutch novelist and essayist
- Sharon ButalaSharon ButalaSharon Butala is a Canadian novelist who lives in Eastend, Saskatchewan.In 2001, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada...
(born 1940), Canadian short story writer and essayist - Octavia E. ButlerOctavia E. ButlerOctavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.- Background :Butler...
(born 1947), US novelist and short story writer - A. S. ByattA. S. ByattDame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner...
(Antonia Susan Byatt) (born 1936), English novelist and critic
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- Lydia CabreraLydia CabreraLydia Cabrera was a Cuban anthropologist and poet.Cabrera was born in Havana; She was an authority on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions. Over her lifetime she published over one hundred books; little if any of her work is available in English...
(1899–1991), Cuban short story writer - Hazel Campbell (born 1940), Jamaican short story writer
- Julieta CamposJulieta CamposJulieta Campos was a Cuban-Mexican writer.Born in Havana, she moved to Mexico in the 1950s after marrying diplomat Enrique González Pedrero...
(born 1932), Cuban-Mexican novelist and critic - Can Xue (born 1953), Chinese fiction writer
- Paola Capriolo (born 1962), Italian novelist, short story wroter and translator
- Marie Cardinal (born 1929), French novelist
- Magda Cârneci (born 1955), Romanian poet and art critic
- Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
(born 1950), Canadian poet - Angela CarterAngela CarterAngela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...
(1940–1992), English novelist, short story writer and essayist - Maria Judite Carvalho (1921–1998), Portuguese short story writer
- Nina CassianNina CassianNina Cassian is a Romanian poet, composer, journalist and film critic.. , The Independent She is noted for her translating abilities, and has rendered into Romanian the works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan...
(born 1924), Romanian poet and composer - Orly Castel-BloomOrly Castel-BloomOrly Castel-Bloom is an Israeli author.Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French...
(born 1960), Israeli short story writer and novelist - Rosario CastellanosRosario CastellanosRosario Castellanos was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 , she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century...
(1925–1974), Mexican poet and novelist - Ana CastilloAna CastilloAna Castillo is a Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist.- Life and career :Castillo was born and raised in an inner city barrio of Chicago, Illinois. After completing undergraduate studies, she immediately began teaching college courses...
(born 1953), US poet, fiction writer and essayist - Nancy CatoNancy CatoNancy Fotheringham Cato AM was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. Cato is also known for her work campaigning on environmental and conservation issues....
(1917–2000), Australian novelist - Adriana CavareroAdriana CavareroAdriana Cavarero is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and...
(born 1947), Italian philosopher - Ina CésaireIna CésaireIna Césaire is a Martinican playwright.She is the daughter of Aimé Césaire.-Plays:*Mémoires d'Isles, Maman N. et Maman F. Paris: Editions Caribéennes, 1985....
(born 1942), French-Martinican dramatist - Ana Cristina CésarAna Cristina CésarAna Cristina César was a poet and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to...
(1952–1983), Brazilian poet and essayist - Ruxandra CesereanuRuxandra CesereanuRuxandra-Mihaela Cesereanu or Ruxandra-Mihaela Braga is a Romanian poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist and literary critic...
(born 1963), Romanian poet - Rahel Chalfi (Rachel Chalfi) (born c. 1940s), Israeli poet
- Chamnongsri Rutnin (Khunying Chamnongsri Hanchanlash) (born 1939), Thai poet, biographer and translator
- Françoise ChandernagorFrançoise ChandernagorFrançoise Chandernagor is a French writer, born June 15, 1945. She is the daughter of André Chandernagor. She is a former student of the National School of Administration - École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.-Biography:In 1991, Françoise...
(born 1945), French novelist and biographer - Marie Chauvet (Marie Vieux) (1919–1972), Haitian novelist
- Denise ChavezDenise ChavezDenise Elia Chavez is an American author, playwright, and stage director. She was born to an Hispano family in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, and graduated from Madonna High School in Mesilla. She received her Bachelor's from New Mexico State University and Master's degrees in Dramatic...
(born 1948), US novelist and playwright - Chantal ChawafChantal ChawafChantal Chawaf is a French writer.She was born in Paris, during the World War II. During her childhood, she studied art at l'Ecole du Louvre and literature. She travelled and lived for some years in Europe, in the Middle East and North America...
(born 1943), French writer - Andrée ChedidAndrée ChedidAndrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...
(born 1920), French novelist and poet - Chen JingrongChen JingrongChen Jingrong was a Chinese poet.Born in the Sichuan province, she started publishing her first poetry in 1937. During the war with Japan, she was part of the National Literary League of Resisting the Enemies....
(1917–1995), Chinese poet, essayist and translator - Chen RanChen RanChen Ran is a Chinese avant-garde writer. Most of her works appeared in the 1990s and often deal with Chinese feminism.-Biography:Chen Ran was born in Beijing in April, 1962. Her parents divorced when she was in high school and she since then lived with her mother...
(born 1962), Chinese fiction writer - Chen RuoxiChen RuoxiChen Ruoxi , born 1938, is a Taiwanese author. A graduate of National Taiwan University, she among others helped found the literary journal Xiandai wenxue .- Mayor Yin :...
(Ch'en Jo-his; Chen Lucy) (born 1938), Chinese/Taiwan fiction writer - Kema ChikweKema ChikweKemafo Nonyerem "Kema" Chikwe, Ph. D. is a former Nigerian Federal Minister of Aviation. She currently holds the position of Nigerian Ambassador to Ireland....
(born 1947), Nigerian children's writer, nonfiction writer and publisher - Chiranan Pitpreecha (Chiranan Prasertkul) (born 1955), Thai poet
- Ch'oe Chǒnghǔi (1906–1990), South Korean fiction writer
- Ch'oe Yun (Choi Hyunmoo) (born 1953), Korean fiction writer and literary critic
- Inger ChristensenInger ChristensenInger Christensen was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.-Life and work:...
(born 1935), Danish poet and novelist - Chuah Guat EngChuah Guat EngChuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian writer born December 1, 1943 in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan. She was Malaysia's first English-language woman novelist.She received her early education at the Methodist Girls' School, Klang and Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur....
(born 1943), Malaysian novelist and stort story writer - R. Chudamani (born 1931), Indian short story writer and novelist
- Leila Chudori (born 1962), Indonesian short story writer
- Ismat ChughtaiIsmat ChughtaiIsmat Chughtai 1 was an eminent Urdu writer, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology. She was considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, as one of the four pillars of modern Urdu short story, the other three being Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, and Rajinder Singh Bedi...
(1915–1991), Indian fiction writer - Lidiia Korneevna Chukovskaia (born 1907), Russian critic, editor, memoirist, novelist and poet
- Caryl ChurchillCaryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer...
(born 1938), British playwright - Fausta Cialente (1898–1994), Italian novelist
- Sandra CisnerosSandra CisnerosSandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...
(born 1954), US fiction writer and poet - Hélène CixousHélène CixousHélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. She holds honorary degrees from Queen's University and the University of Alberta in Canada; University College Dublin in Ireland; the University of York and University College...
(born 1937), French writer and dramatist - Amy ClampittAmy Clampitt-Life:Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from...
(1920–1994), US poet - Gillian ClarkeGillian ClarkeGillian Clarke is a Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh.-Life:Clarke was born in Cardiff and brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire...
(born 1937), Welsh poet - Catherine ClémentCatherine ClémentCatherine Clément is a prominent French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic. She received a degree in philosophy from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, and studied under such luminaries as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and...
(born 1939), French essayist and novelist - Michelle CliffMichelle CliffMichelle Cliff is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng and Free Enterprise.Cliff also has written short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism...
(born 1946), Jamaican-US novelist - Lucille CliftonLucille CliftonLucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...
(Thelma Lucille Clifton) (born 1936), US poet and children's writer - Marina ColasantiMarina ColasantiMarina Colasanti is a Brazilian writer, translator and journalist.Her family moved from Italy to Brazil when World War II started, and there she studied Fine Arts and worked as a journalist and as a translator.-Prizes:*Uma idéia toda azul, 1978, O Melhor para o Jovem, da Fundação Nacional do Livro...
(born 1937), Brazilian short story writer and journalist - Lindsey CollenLindsey CollenLindsey Collen is a Mauritian novelist, and activist.She won the 1994 and 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, Africa.Her work has appeared in the New Internationalist....
(born 1948), Mauritian novelist - Merle CollinsMerle Collins-Life:Her parents are Grenadian, they returned there shorty after her birth.She studied in St Georges.a degree in English and Spanish, in 1972.She taught History and Spanish in Grenada, and in St Lucia....
(born 1950), Grenadian poet and novelist - Maryse CondéMaryse CondéMaryse Condé is a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu . Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris,...
(born 1937), Guadeloupean novelist - Paule ConstantPaule ConstantPaule Constant is a French novelist.She graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University, with a Ph.D.-Awards:* 1988 Prix Goncourt for Confidence pour confidence.* 1989 Grand prize for the novel Académie française...
(born 1944), French novelist - Lena ConstanteLena ConstanteLena Constante was a Romanian artist, essayist and memoirist, known for her work in stage design and tapestry. A family friend of Communist Party politician Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, she was arrested by the Communist regime following the conflict between Pătrăşcanu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej...
(born 1909), Romanian writer - Afua CooperAfua CooperAfua Cooper is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian, author and dub poet.-Biography:Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in African-Canadian history with specialties in slavery and abolition...
(born 1958), Jamaican-Canadian poet - Wendy CopeWendy CopeWendy Cope, OBE is an award-winning contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely with the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.-Biography:...
(born 1945), British poet - Gilda Cordero-FernandoGilda Cordero-FernandoGilda Cordero-Fernando is a multiawarded writer, publisher and cultural icon from the Philippines. She was born in Manila, has a B.A. from St...
(born 1930), Philippine fiction writer and essayist - Patricia CornwellPatricia CornwellPatricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner.-Early life:...
(born 1956), US novelist - Clara Pinto Correia (born 1960), Portuguese novelist and journalist
- Hélia CorreiaHélia CorreiaHélia Correia is a Portuguese writer, born in Lisbon. At university, she read Romance Philology. After a period working as a high school teacher, Hélia Correia undertook postgraduate studies in Classical Theatre. Her literary career started in earnest in the 1980s and she quickly achieved great...
(born 1949), Portuguese novelist, dramatist and poet - Natália CorreiaNatália CorreiaNatália de Oliveira Correia, GOSE, GOL was an intellectual, poet and social activist, as well as author of the official lyrics of the Hino dos Açores, the regional anthem of Autonomous Region of the Azores...
(1923–1993), Portuguese fiction writer, poet and dramatist - Maria Corti (1915–2002), Italian literary critic and novelist
- Ajeet Cour (born 1934), Indian fiction writer
- Sonia Coutinho (born 1939), Brazilian novelist and short story writer
- Christine Craig (born 1943), Jamaican poet
- Helena Parente Cunha (born 1929), Brazilian novelist, poet, and short story writer
- Rachel CuskRachel Cusk-Biography:Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishing her education at St Mary's Convent in Cambridge. She read English at New College, Oxford, and has travelled extensively in Spain and Central America. She is the author of six novels....
(born 1967), British novelist
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- Dai Houying (1938–1995), Chinese novelist and essayist
- Dai QingDai QingDai Qing, born in August 1941, is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project. Dai is also an author who has published many influential books, articles, and journals.-Early life:Dai, also called Fu Ning , was born in Chongqing,...
(born 1941), Chinese journalist and writer - Ruth DallasRuth DallasRuth Dallas is the pseudonym of New Zealand poet and children's author Ruth Minnie Mumford.Ruth was born in Invercargill, the daughter of Frank and Minnie Mumford. She became blind in one eye at the age of 15, then spent three years at the Southland Technical College and was engaged at the age of 19...
(Ruth Mumford) (born 1919), New Zealand poet and children's writer - Tsitsi DangarembgaTsitsi DangarembgaTsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.- Biography :Dangarembga was born in Mutoko, Zimbabwe , in 1959 but spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare...
(born 1959), Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker - Sarah DanielsSarah DanielsSarah Daniels is a British dramatist. She has been a prolific writer since her first performed play was given a production at the Royal Court in 1981. Her plays have appeared at other venues including the National Theatre, the Battersea Arts Centre, the Crucible, Sheffield and Chicken Shed...
(born 1956), British playwright - Simin Danishvar (born 1921), Iranian novelist and short story writer
- Edwidge Danticat (born 1969), Haitian-US novelist and short story writer
- Kamala DasKamala DasKamala Suraiyya was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India...
(Madhavikutty) (born 1934), Indian poet and short story writer - Mahadai DasMahadai DasMahadai Das was a Guyanese poet. She was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana in 1954. She wrote poetry from her early school days at Bishop's High School, Georgetown. She did her first degree at the University of Guyana and received her B.A. in philosophy at Columbia University, New York,...
(born 1954), Indo-Guyanese poet - Shobha DeShobha DeShobha Rajadhyaksha known as Shobhaa Dé , Previously Shobha Kilachand is an Indian columnist and novelist.-Early life:...
(born 1948), Indian novelist and columnist - Alba de Cèspedes (1911–1997), Italian novelist, journalist and poet
- Alma De GroenAlma De GroenAlma De Groen is an Australian dramatist. She was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to Australia when she was 24 years old.-Works:* The Girl Who Saw Everything * Going Home * The Joss Adams Show * The Rivers Of China * Vocations...
(born 1941), Australian dramatist - Carolina Maria de JesusCarolina Maria De JesusCarolina Maria de Jesus was a Brazilian peasant who lived most of her life in the favela of São Paulo, Brazil. She is best known for her diary, which was published as Child of the Dark in 1960, after coming to the attention of a Brazilian journalist...
(1915–1977), Brazilian fiction writer - Ana Maria del Rio (born 1948), Chilean novelist and short story writer
- Márcia Denser (born 1949), Brazilian fiction writer
- Anita DesaiAnita DesaiAnita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
(born 1937), Indian novelist - Kamal Desai (born 1928), Indian novelist
- Dominique Desanti (born 1921), French novelist and biographer
- Gauri DeshpandeGauri DeshpandeGauri Deshpande was a novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote in Marathi and English....
(born 1942), Indian fiction writer, poet and translator - Shashi DeshpandeShashi DeshpandeShashi Deshpande , is an award-winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Sriranga. She was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law...
(born 1938), Indian novelist - Noémia de SousaNoémia de SousaCarolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares was a poet from Mozambique who wrote in the Portuguese language. She is also known as Vera Micaia. She is of mixed Portuguese and Bantu descent....
(born 1927), Mozambican poet, journalist and activist - Eunice de SouzaEunice De SouzaEunice de Souza is a contemporary Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Among her notable books of poetry is Women in Dutch painting .-Early life and education:...
(born 1940), Indian poet and literary critic - Subha Devakul (1928–1993), Thai fiction writer and TV scriptwriter
- Saroop Dhruv (born 1948), Indian poet and social activist
- Nafissatou Niang DialloNafissatou Niang DialloNafissatou Niang Diallo was a Senegalese writer who wrote in French. After studying in Toulouse, she began writing. Her 1975 autobiography De Tilène au Plateau, a Dakar childhood was among the first works of literature to be published by a Senegalese woman. After this she published three novels...
(1941–1982), Senegalese novelist - Joan DidionJoan DidionJoan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...
(born 1934), US novelist and essayist - Annie DillardAnnie DillardAnnie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General...
(born 1945), US nonfiction writer and poet - Ophelia O. Dimalanta (born 1934), Philippine poet
- Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (born 1922), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
- Kiki DimoulaKiki DimoulaKiki Dimoula is an acclaimed Greek poet. She worked as a clerk for the Bank of Greece. She was married to the poet Athos Dimoulas , with whom she had two children...
(born 1931), Greek poet - Ding LingDing LingDīng Líng was the pseudonym of Jiǎng Bīngzhī , also known as Bīn Zhǐ , a Chinese woman author from Linli in Hunan province. She was awarded the Soviet Union's Stalin second prize for Literature in 1951....
(1904–1986), Chinese fiction writer - Nurhayati Srihardini Siti NukatinNh. DiniNurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin , better known by her pen name "Nh. Dini" , is an Indonesian novelist and feminist. She is the youngest of five children of Saljowidjojo and Kusaminah...
(born 1936), Indonesian novelist and short story writer - Diane Di PrimaDiane di PrimaDiane Di Prima is an American poet.-Early life:Di Prima was born in Brooklyn. She attended Hunter College High School and Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan...
(born 1934), US poet and dramatist - Jenny DiskiJenny Diski-External links:***...
(born 1947), US novelist - Tove DitlevsenTove DitlevsenTove Ditlevsen was a female Danish poet and author.She was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the working-class neighbourhood of Vesterbro. Her childhood experiences were the focal points of her work. Ditlevsen was married four times.She published 29 books including short stories, poetry and...
(1918–1976), Danish poet and novelist - Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-US poet and fiction writer
- Assia DjebarAssia DjebarAssia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen , an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers...
(Fatima-Zohra Imalhayene) (born 1935), Algerian novelist and filmmaker - DjuraDjuraDjura is a locality situated in Leksand Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 1 inhabitant in 1389....
(born 1949), Algerian-Kabyle writer - Geneviève Dormann (born 1933), French novelist
- Renate DorresteinRenate DorresteinRenate Dorrestein is a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called Panorama and she published her first novel in 1983...
(born 1954), Dutch novelist - Maro DoukaMaro DoukaMaro Douka is an acclaimed Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens...
(born 1947), Greek novelist - Rita DoveRita DoveRita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...
(born 1952), US poet - Margaret Drabble (born 1939), English novelist and critic
- Slavenka DrakulićSlavenka DrakulicSlavenka Drakulić is a noted Croatian writer and publicist who currently lives in Sweden.Slavenka Drakulić was born in Rijeka, PR Croatia, on July 4, 1949. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb in 1976...
(born 1949), Croatian novelist and essayist - Imme DrosImme DrosImme Dros is a Dutch writer of children's literature.- Life :Dros grew up on the island of Texel. She studied Dutch in Amsterdam. There she met her husband Harrie Geelen, with whom she had three children. As a homemaker, she wrote her first book in 1971. Her husband has illustrated several of her...
(born 1936), Dutch children's writer - Marilyn DuckworthMarilyn DuckworthMarilyn Duckworth OBE is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published sixteen novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio....
(born 1935), New Zealand novelist - Carol Ann DuffyCarol Ann DuffyCarol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...
(born 1955), British poet and playwright - Maureen DuffyMaureen DuffyMaureen Patricia Duffy is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature.-Life and work:After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in...
(born 1933), British poet, novelist and playwright - Helen DunmoreHelen DunmoreHelen Dunmore is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol....
(born 1952), British poet and novelist - Nell DunnNell Dunn-Early years:Dunn was born in London and educated at a convent, which she left at the age of fourteen. Although she came from an upper class background, in 1959 she moved to Battersea and made friends in the neighbourhood and worked for a time in a sweets factory...
(born 1936), British novelist, playwright and nonfiction writer - Duong Thu HuongDuong Thu HuongDương Thu Hương is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Formerly a member of Vietnam's Communist party, she was expelled from the party in 1989, and has been denied the right to travel abroad, and was temporarily imprisoned for her writings and outspoken criticism of corruption in the...
(born 1947), Vietnamese novelist and fiction writer - Francesca Duranti (born 1938), Italian writer and journalist
- Marguerite DurasMarguerite DurasMarguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...
(1914–1996), French novelist and screenwriter
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- Ma Sanda (born 1947), Burmese writer
- Ann-Marie MacDonaldAnn-Marie MacDonaldAnn-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany....
(born 1959), Canadian dramatist and novelist - Sharman MacDonaldSharman MacdonaldSharman Macdonald is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, and former actress. She is the mother of Academy Award-nominee Keira Knightley.-Career:...
(born 1951), Scottish playwright - Shena MackayShena MackayShena Mackay FRSL , is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire.-Biography:...
(born 1944), Scottish novelist - Sindiwe MagonaSindiwe Magona-Early life and education:A native of the Transkei, she grew up in a township near Cape Town, where she worked as a domestic and completed her secondary education by correspondence. Magona later graduated from the University of South Africa and earned a graduate degree from Columbia...
(born 1943). South African novelist, memoirist, and short-story writer - Mahasweta DeviMahasweta DeviMahasweta Devi is an Indian social activist and writer.- Biography :Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa...
(born 1926), Indian novelist, short-story writer and journalist - Maryam Mahbub (born 1953), Afghan short-story writer
- Margaret MahyMargaret MahyMargaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...
(born 1936), New Zealand children's writer - Jennifer MaidenJennifer MaidenJennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...
(born 1939), Australian poet and prose writer - Antonine MailletAntonine MailletAntonine Maillet, is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick and lives in Montreal, Quebec....
(born 1929), Canadian novelist and dramatist - Nancy MairsNancy MairsNancy Mairs is an author who writes about diverse topics, including spirituality, women's issues and her experiences living with multiple sclerosis. She was born on July 23, 1943 in Long Beach, California. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, however. She received an AB from Wheaton College, and...
(born 1943), US essayist and poet - Sara MaitlandSara MaitlandSara Maitland is a British writer and feminist. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency.-Biography:...
(born 1950), British novelist - Elena Grigoryevna Makarova (born 1951), Russian prose writer and essayist
- Nāzik al-Malā'ika (born 1923), Iraqi poet and literary critic
- Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu (born 1940), Romanian poet
- Françoise Mallet-JorisFrançoise Mallet-JorisFrançoise Mallet-Joris is the nom de plume of Françoise Lilar.She was born in Antwerp, the daughter of the writer Suzanne Lilar and the Belgian Minister of Justice and Minister of State Albert Lilar, and the sister of the 18th century art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar...
(born 1930), Francophone Belgian novelist - Ma Ma Lay (1917–1982), Burmese writer
- 'Āliya Mamdūh (born 1944), Iraqi novelist, short-story writer and journalist
- Samīra al-Māni' (born 1935), Iraqi novelist, playwright and short-story writer
- Eeva-Liisa MannerEeva-Liisa MannerEeva-Liisa Manner , Finnish poet, playwright and translator. She was born in Helsinki but spent her youth in Vyborg . Manner started as a poet in 1944...
(1921–1995), Finnish poet, playwright and translator - Joyce MansourJoyce MansourJoyce Mansour was born Joyce Patricia Adès, in Bowden, England to Jewish-Egyptian parents. She lived in Cairo where she first came in contact with Parisian surrealism and then moved to Paris in 1953 where she became the best known Surrealist woman poet, author of 16 books of poetry, as well as a...
(1928–1986), Egyptian poet - Hilary MantelHilary MantelHilary Mary Mantel CBE , née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards...
(born 1952), British novelist and critic - Dacia MarainiDacia MarainiDacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan...
(born 1935), Italian novelist, dramatist and poet - Mariana MarinMariana MarinMariana Marin was a Romanian poet.One of the most gifted and uncompromising poets of the 1980s generation, Adam J...
(Marianna Pintilie) (born 1956), Romanian poet - Kamala Markandaya (born 1924), Indian novelist
- Daphne MarlattDaphne MarlattDaphne Marlatt, née Buckle, CM , is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia....
(born 1942), Canadian poet and novelist - Monika MaronMonika MaronMonika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began...
(born 1941), East German novelist - Paule MarshallPaule MarshallPaule Marshall is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College and Hunter College . Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose...
(born 1929), Barbadian-US novelist - Carmen Martín GaiteCarmen Martín GaiteCarmen Martín Gaite was an award winning Spanish author. She wrote in many genres, including novels, short stories, and essays...
(1925–2000), Spanish novelist - Bobbie Ann MasonBobbie Ann MasonBobbie Ann Mason is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.With four siblings Mason grew up on her family's dairy farm outside of Mayfield, Kentucky. As a child she loved to read, so her parents, Wilburn and Christina Mason, always made sure she had...
(born 1940), US short-story writer and novelist - Olga MastersOlga MastersOlga Masters née Lawler was an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Life:Olga Masters was born in Pambula, New South Wales, the second of eight children. Her early life was characterised by the poverty of the depression era, her family moving around the South Coast region in...
(1919–1986), Australian fiction writer and journalist - Jenny MastorakiJenny MastorakiJenny Mastoraki is a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens.She belongs to the Genia tou 70, which is a term used to describe Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and...
(born 1949), Greek poet and translator - Angeles MastrettaÁngeles MastrettaÁngeles Mastretta is a Mexican author and journalist. She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and political realities of Mexico in her life.-Background:...
(born 1949), Mexican novelist and short-story writer - Ronit MatalonRonit Matalon-About:Matalon was born in Ganei Tikva, Israel, the daughter of Egyptian-Jewish immigrants. Matalon studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and worked as a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, where she covered Gaza and the West Bank between 1987 and 1993. She is a resident of Tel...
(born 1959), Israeli fiction writer - Ana María MatuteAna María MatuteAna María Matute is an internationally acclaimed Spanish author. She is one of the strongest voices from the posguerra, or period immediately following the Spanish Civil War...
(born 1926), Spanish fiction writer - Novella Matveeva Nikolaevna (born 1934), Russian poet, songwriter and singer
- Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell, Trinidadian novelist and dramatist
- Friederike MayröckerFriederike MayröckerFriederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old...
(born 1942), Austrian poet and fiction writer - Anne McCaffreyAnne McCaffreyAnne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
(born 1926, US novelist - Sue McCauley (born 1939), New Zealand novelist, scriptwriter and journalist
- Colleen McCulloughColleen McCulloughColleen McCullough-Robinson, , is an internationally acclaimed Australian author.-Life:McCullough was born in Wellington, in outback central west New South Wales, in 1937 to James and Laurie McCullough. Her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, her family moved...
(born 1937), Australian novelist - Val McDermidVal McDermidVal McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...
(born 1955), Scottish novelist - Alice McDermottAlice McDermottAlice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St...
(born 1953), US novelist - Medbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
(born 1950), Irish poet - Terry McMillanTerry McMillanTerry McMillan is an American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 at University of California, Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists.Her first book, Mama, was published in 1987...
(born 1951), US novelist - Cilla McQueenCilla McQueenCilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.-Early years and Education:McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four....
(born 1949), New Zealand poet - Candia McWilliamCandia McWilliamCandia McWilliam is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.Born in Edinburgh, McWilliam was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she obtained first class honours. Her first novel, A Case of Knives, published in 1988, was the winner of a...
(born 1955), Scottish novelist and short-story writer - Gita MehtaGita MehtaGita Mehta is an Indian writer and was born in Delhi in a renowned Oriya family of freedom fighters. She is the daughter of Biju Patnaik, an Indian independence activist and a Chief Minister in post-independence Orissa. Her younger brother Naveen Patnaik is presently the Chief Minister of Orissa...
(born 1943, Indian novelist, essayist and documentary film-maker - Alda MeriniAlda MeriniAlda Merini was a renowned Italian writer and poet.She was born in Milan and died there aged 78.Alda Merini started her poetic career when she was really young and soon she gained the attention and the admiration of many famous italian writers, like Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo and Pier...
(born 1931), Italian poet - Fatima Mernissi (born 1940), Moroccan sociologist and memoirist
- Anja MeulenbeltAnja MeulenbeltAnja Henriëtte Meulenbelt is a Dutch politician.-References:* at www.parlement.com...
(born 1945), Dutch essayist and novelist - Leila Míccolis (born 1947), Brazilian poet and fiction writer
- Hanny Michaelis (born 1922), Dutch poet
- Anne MichaelsAnne Michaels-Background:Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the Department of English. Her first book, The Weight of Oranges , a volume of poetry, was awarded the Commonwealth...
(born 1958), Canadian poet and novelist - Farzaneh MilaniFarzaneh MilaniFarzaneh Milani is an Iranian-American scholar and author. She teaches Persian literature and Women’s Studies at the University of Virginia. Milani is Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures. She is also a poet, award-winning translator, and a recipient of...
(born 1947), Iranian poet and literary critic - Sue MillerSue MillerSue Miller is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and as a result she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching...
(born 1943), US novelist - Krystyna Miłobedzka (born 1932), Polish poet
- Marga MincoMarga MincoMarga Minco is the pseudonym of Sara Menco is a Dutch journalist and writer. Her surname was actually Menco, but an official switched the vowel by mistake.- Biography :...
(born 1920), Dutch novelist and short-story writer - Ana Maria Miranda (born 1951), Brazilian poet and novelist
- Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch (born 1948), Austrian novelist
- Mo Mo (Inya) (1945–1990), Burmese writer
- Karin MoeKarin MoeKarin Moe is a Norwegian writer and literary critic.She made her literary debut in 1980 with the text collection Kjønnskrift. Other collections are 39 Fyk from 1983, and Sjanger from 1986. She published the experimental novels Blove 1. bok and Blove 2...
(born 1945), Norwegian sexual/textual reformer - Malika MokeddemMalika Mokeddem-Biography:Malika Mokkeddem was born on October 5, 1949 in Kenadsa, a small mining town on the limit of the western desert of Algeria. She is the daughter of an illiterate nomad family who became sedentary. She grew up listening to the stories told by her grandmother, Zohra, and was the only girl...
(born 1949), Francophone Algerian novelist - Silvia Molina (born 1946), Mexican novelist and short-story writer
- Sylvia MolloySylvia MolloySylvia Clark Molloy M.A., , was a British Realist and Impressionist artist and teacher.A graduate of Durham University, she lived abroad for much of her life - including many years in South Africa -returning to England in the mid 1960s.Her many paintings and sketches of the peoples of South Africa...
(born 1938), Argentine novelist and literary critic - Libuše MoníkováLibuše MoníkováLibuše Moníková was a Czech writer, publishing in German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany.- References :...
(1945–1998), Czech-German novelist and essayist - Rosa MonteroRosa MonteroRosa Montero is an award-winning journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País and an author of contemporary fiction.-Early life:...
(born 1951), Spanish novelist and journalist - Margriet de Moor (born 1941), Dutch novelist
- Lorrie MooreLorrie MooreLorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.-Biography:...
(born 1957), US short-story writer and novelist - Finola Moorhead (born 1947), Australian novelist, playwright, essayist and poet
- Cherríe MoragaCherríe MoragaCherríe L. Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.-Biography:Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980...
(born 1952), US playwright, poet and editor - Giuliana Morandini (born 1944), Italian novelist and essayist
- Elsa MoranteElsa MoranteElsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...
(1912–1985), Italian novelist - Marta Morazzoni (born 1950), Italian novelist
- Dea Trier Mørch (born 1941), Danish writer
- Pamela MordecaiPamela MordecaiPamela Claire Mordecai is a Jamaican writer, teacher, and scholar and poet. She attended high school in Jamaica and college in the US, where she did a first degree in English...
(born 1942), Jamaican poet and children's writer - Nancy MorejónNancy MorejónNancy Morejón is one of Cuba's major authors and poets. She has gained recognition for work whose themes are centered on women and the Afro-Cuban experience.-Life history:...
(born 1944), Cuban poet and translator - Virginia R. Moreno (born 1925), Philippine playwright and poet
- Sally MorganSally Morgan (artist)Sally Jane Morgan is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Morgan's works are on display in numerous private and public collections in both Australia and around the world.-Early life:...
(born 1951), Australian autobiographer and biographer - Irmtraud MorgnerIrmtraud MorgnerIrmtraud Morgner, , was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.-Life:...
(1933–1990), East German novelist - Iunna Petrovna Morits (born 1937), Russian poet and essayist
- Toni MorrisonToni MorrisonToni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
(born 1931), US novelist and essayist - Micere Githae MugoMicere Githae MugoMicere Githae Mugo is a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya. she is a literary critic and professor of literature in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University...
(born 1942), Kenyan poet, critic, playwright and activist - Hazel de Silva Mugot (born 1947), Kenyan novelist
- Penina MuhandoPenina MuhandoPenina Muhando, also known as Penina Mlama is a Tanzanian Kiswahili playwright, and a theorist and practitioner of popular theatre in Tanzania.-Life:...
(born 1948), Tanzanian playwright - Bharati MukherjeeBharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...
(born 1940), US fiction writer - Meenakshi Mukherjee (1937–2009), Indian literary critic
- Herta MüllerHerta MüllerHerta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...
(born 1953), German-Romanian novelist - Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
(born 1931), Canadian short-story writer - Iris MurdochIris MurdochDame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...
(1919–1999), British novelist
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- Kishwar NaheedKishwar NaheedKishwar Naheed , Sitara-e-Imtiaz is an Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetry.-Life and Family:...
(born 1940), Pakistani poet - Huda al-Namani (born 1930), Syrian poet
- Suniti NamjoshiSuniti NamjoshiSuniti Namjoshi is an Indian writer and poet, many of whose works explore issues of gender and sexual orientation. She has written several collections of fables, poetry and fantasy fiction. She has also written some children's fiction.-Biography:...
(born 1941), Indian-Canadian-British fabulist and poet - Hamida Nana (born 1946), Syrian novelist, poet and journalist
- Carmen NaranjoCarmen NaranjoCarmen Naranjo Coto , is a Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist.She was born in Cartago, the capital city of the Cartago Province. She received her primary education there at the Escuela República de Perú and her secondary at the Colegio Superior de Señoritas...
(born 1931), Costa Rican novelist and poet - Naravadee (born 1931), Thai fiction writer and poet.
- Valeriia Spartakovna Narbikova (born 1958), Russian writer and painter
- Emily NasrallahEmily NasrallahEmily Nasrallah , née Emily Abi Rached on July 6, 1931 in Kfeir, Lebanon; is a Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. Emily showed literary talents at an early age, she took up writing and journalism while still in college a talent for which she would receive great recognition...
(born 1931), Lebanese novelist, short-story writer and journalist - Taslima NasrinTaslima NasrinTaslima Nasrin is a Bengali Bangladeshi ex-doctor turned author who has been living in exile since 1994. From a modest literary profile in the late 1980s, she rose to global fame by the end of the 20th century owing to her feminist views and her criticism of Islam in particular and of religion in...
(born 1962), Bangladeshi poet and essayist - Gloria NaylorGloria NaylorGloria Naylor is an African American novelist and educator.-Early life:Born in New York, she was the first child to Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. As Naylor grew up, her father was a transit worker and her mother was a telephone operator. When Naylor was young, her mother encouraged her to...
(born 1950), US novelist - Marie NDiayeMarie NDiayeMarie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was only 17 and she won the Prix Femina in 2001 for her novel Rosie Carpe...
(born 1967), French novelist - Lauretta Ngcobo (born 1931), South African novelist, editor and fiction writer
- Giulia Niccolai (born 1934), Italian poet and writer
- Grace NicholsGrace NicholsGrace Nichols is a Guyanese poet. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950. After working in Guyana as a teacher and journalist, she emigrated to the UK in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.Her first...
, Guyanese-British poet, children's writer and novelist - Eilean Ni ChuilleanainEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...
(born 1942), Irish poet - Nuala Ni DhomhnaillNuala Ní DhomhnaillNuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle is Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of An Daingean, the leading authority alive on...
(born 1952), Irish poet - Nie Hualing (born 1925), Chinese fiction writer and literary critic
- Anupama NiranjanaAnupama NiranjanaAnupama Niranjana was a doctor in India and writer of modern Kannada fiction and non-fiction.She advocated the woman's point of view and was one among such writers in Kannada, which includes others like Triveni and M. K. Indira...
(1934–1991), Indian novelist and short-story writer - Rebeka Njau (born 1939), Kenyan novelist, playwright and critic
- Francine NoëlFrancine NoëlFrancine Noël is a Canadian writer, whose 2005 work La Femme de ma vie won the 2006 edition of Première Chaîne's Le Combat des livres.She teaches theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal.-Awards and nominations:...
(born 1945), Canadian novelist - Olga NollaOlga NollaOlga Nolla was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist and professor.-Early life:...
(born 1938), Puerto Rican poet - Marsha NormanMarsha NormanMarsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play night, Mother...
(born 1947), US playwright - Amélie NothombAmélie NothombAmélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.- Biography :Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, Coventry and Laos...
(born 1967), Francophone Belgian novelist - Nu Nu Yi (or Inya) (born 1957), Burmese short-story writer and novelist
- Flora NwapaFlora NwapaFlorence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa. Her novel Efuru is among the first English language novels by a woman from Africa....
(1931–1993), Nigerian novelist, dramatist, short-story writer and children's author
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- O Chong-hui (born 1947), Korean fiction writer
- Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
(born 1938), US novelist, short-story writer, poet and playwright - Edna O'BrienEdna O'BrienEdna O'Brien is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole.-Life and career:...
(born 1932), Irish novelist - Julia O'FaolainJulia O'FaolainJulia O'Faolain is an Irish novelist and short story writer. Her parents were Irish writers Seán Ó Faoláin and Eileen Gould....
(born 1932), Irish novelist and short-story writer - Grace OgotGrace OgotGrace Ogot is a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat.Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi in Asembo, in the district of Nyanza. She trained as a nurse in Uganda and in England. She has worked as a midwife, a tutor, as journalist, as a BBC Overseas Service broadcaster, and in a...
(born 1930), Kenyan short-story writer and novelist - 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (born 1940), Nigerian poet, critic, editor and activist
- Ohba Minako (born 1930), Japanese novelist
- Ifeoma Okoye, Nigerian novelist and children's writer
- Sharon OldsSharon Olds-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...
(born 1942), US poet - Mary OliverMary OliverMary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
(born 1935), US poet - Maria-Antònia Oliver y Cabrer (born 1946), Catalan novelist
- Tillie OlsenTillie OlsenTillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.-Biography:...
(born 1913), US novelist and short-story writer - Tess Onwueme (born 1955), Nigerian playwright
- Oodgeroo NoonuccalOodgeroo NoonuccalOodgeroo Noonuccal was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights...
(Kath Walker) (1920–1993), Australian poet - Olga OrozcoOlga Orozcothumb|Olga Orozco, 1960Olga Orozco was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents where she initiated her career as a writer.Orozco directed some literary publications using some...
(born 1920), Argentine poet - Elvira Orphée (born 1930), Argentine novelist and short-story writer
- Anna Maria Ortense (1914–1998), Italian novelist, short-story writer and journalist
- Lourdes Ortiz (born 1943), Spanish novelist
- Alicia OstrikerAlicia OstrikerAlicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.Alicia is married to the noted astronomer Jeremiah Ostriker who taught at Princeton University...
(born 1937), US poet and critic - Aysel Őzakin (born 1940), Turkish novelist, short-story writer and poet
- Cynthia OzickCynthia OzickCynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.-Background:Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children...
(born 1928), US short story writer, novelist and essayist
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- Manjula PadmanabhanManjula PadmanabhanManjula Padmanabhan is a playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author responsible for the play Harvest. She has also written such plays as Lights Out! ,Hidden Fires The Artist's Model and Sextet .Born in Delhi to a diplomat family in 1953, she went to boarding school in...
(born 1953), Indian short-story writer, dramatist and illustrator - Pak Hwasŏng (Pak Kyŏngsun) (1904–1988), Korean fiction writer and essayist
- Pak Kyŏngni (born 1927), Korean fiction writer
- Pak Wansŏ (born 1931), South Korean fiction writer
- Marina Anatolyevna Palei (born 1955), Russian prose writer and poet
- Grace PaleyGrace PaleyGrace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
(born 1922), US short-story writer - Connie PalmenConnie PalmenAldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria "Connie" Palmen is a Dutch author.Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten , published in the USA as The Laws , translated by Richard Huijing...
(born 1955), Dutch novelist and memoirist - Kirsti PalttoKirsti PalttoKirsti Paltto is a Sámi author who writes mainly in Northern Sámi. Her books have been translated into several languages, including Finnish, German, Norwegian, English , Inari Sámi and Hungarian...
(born 1947), Sami novelist, short-story writer, children's writer and poet - Mrinal PandeMrinal PandeMrinal Pande is an Indian television personality, journalist and author, and till recently chief editor of Hindi Daily, Hindustan. She left Hindustan on Aug 31, 2009. She is appointed chairperson of Prasar Bharati, the apex body of official Indian Broadcat Media.This appointment came on Jan 23, 2010...
(born 1946), Indian short-story writer - Cristina Pantoja-HidalgoCristina Pantoja-HidalgoCristina Pantoja-Hidalgo is an award-winning Filipina fictionist, critic and pioneering writer of creative nonfiction....
(born 1944), Philippine fiction writer and essayist - Sara ParetskySara ParetskySara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction.-Life and career:Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in...
(born 1947), US novelist - Ruth ParkRuth ParkRuth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...
(born 1918), Australian novelist, children's writer, dramatist and nonfiction writer - Shahrnush ParsipurShahrnush ParsipurShahrnush Parsipur is an Iranian novelist. She is the daughter of an attorney in the Iranian Justice Ministry originally from Shiraz.-Biography:...
(born 1946), Iranian novelist - Vesna ParunVesna ParunVesna Parun was a Croatian poet.After schooling in Zlarin, Šibenik and Split, she studied Romance languages and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 1947 she was a free artist, writing poetry, essays, criticism and children's literature. She...
(born 1922), Croatian poet - Gudrun PausewangGudrun PausewangGudrun Pausewang is a German writer for children and teens. She is also noted in science fiction for Young-Adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn....
(born 1928), German fiction writer - Solomea Dmytrivna Pavlychko (or Solomiia Dmytrivna Pavlychko) (born 1958), Ukrainian critic, memoirist, essayist and translator
- Urmila Pawar (born 1945), Indian short-story writer
- Iva PekárkováIva PekárkováIva Pekárková is a Czechoslovakia-born author who started writing and publishing novels after moving to New York City.-Novels:*Pera a perutě, 1989...
(born 1963), Czech novelist - Cristina Peri RossiCristina Peri RossiCristina Peri Rossi is an Uruguayan novelist, poet, translator, and author of short stories.Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to...
(born 1941), Uruguayan novelist, short-story writer, poet - Synnøve Persen (born 1950), Sami poet and visual artist
- Ioana Emanuela Petrescu (1941–90), Romanian literary critic and essayist
- Sandra Petrignani (norn 1952), Italian journalist and short-story writer
- Lyudmila PetrushevskayaLyudmila PetrushevskayaLyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.The Moscow-born Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, whose writing combines postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as...
(born 1938), Russian prose writer, playwright and journalist - Pham Thi HoaiPham Thi HoaiPhạm Thị Hoài is an influential contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany.- Biography :Born in Hải Dương province, Phạm Thị Hoài grew up in North Vietnam. In 1977, she went to former East Berlin to study at Humboldt University, where she earned a degree in Archival...
(born 1960), Vietnamese novelist and short-story writer - Phan Thi Vang-Anh (born 1968), Vietnamese short-story writer
- Marlene Nourbese Philip (born 1947), Tobagan-Canadian poet and novelist
- Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952), US novelist and short-story writer
- Marge PiercyMarge PiercyMarge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.-Biography:...
(born 1936), US poet and novelist - Hava Pinchas-Cohen (born 1955), Israeli poet
- Gisèle PineauGisele PineauGisèle Pineau is a French novelist, writer and former psychiatric nurse. Although born in Paris, her origins are Guadeloupean and she has written several books on the difficulties and torments of her childhood as a black person growing up in Parisian society.In particular, she focuses on racism...
(born 1956), Guadeloupean novelist - Ping LuPing LuLu Ping , born in Kaohsiung in 1953, writes under the pen name "Ping Lu." Her writing encompasses a broad range of genres, including novels, essays, poems, commentary, and theater plays. She is also known in the Chinese-language world for her critique of social phenomenon, ranging from cultural...
(born 1953), Chinese-Taiwan fiction writer and journalist - Nélida PiñonNélida PiñonNélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo , written in 1961, it concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel...
(born 1937), Brazlian fiction writer - Alejandra PizarnikAlejandra PizarnikAlejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet.-Life and work:She was born on April 29, 1936 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A year after entering the department of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published her...
(1936–1972), Argentine poet and translator - Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
(1932–1963), US poet and novelist - Agneta Pleijel (born 1940), Swedish playwright
- Irina Nikolaevna Polianskaia (born 1952), Russian prose writer
- Velma Pollard (born 1937), Jamaican poet and fiction writer
- Katha PollittKatha PollittKatha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry...
(born 1949), US essayist and poet - Elena PoniatowskaElena PoniatowskaElena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...
(born 1933), Mexican novelist and journalist - Halina PoświatowskaHalina PoswiatowskaHalina Poświatowska - Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature....
(1935–1967), Polish poet and autobiographer - Adélia PradoAdélia PradoAdélia Luzia Prado Freitas , is a Brazilian writer and poet.She was born in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, and started writing at the age of 40 which is relatively late in life for a poet...
(born 1935), Brazilian poet and fiction writer - Amrita PritamAmrita PritamAmrita Pritam was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border, with a career spanning over six decades, she...
(born 1919), Indian poet and fiction writer - Lenka Procházková (born 1951), Czech prose writer
- Francine ProseFrancine ProseFrancine Prose is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991....
(born 1947), US novelist and essayist - Suzanne ProuSuzanne ProuSuzanne Prou was a French novelist.She won the 1973 Prix Renaudot, for The Bernardini Terrace.She is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.-Works:*Les Patapharis 1966...
(1920–1995), French novelist - E. Annie ProulxE. Annie ProulxEdna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994, and was made into a film in 2001...
(born 1935), US novelist and short-story writer - Anne ProvoostAnne ProvoostAnne Provoost Anne Provoost Anne Provoost (born 26 July 1964 in the Belgian town of Poperinge, is a Flemish author who now lives in Antwerp with her husband and three children.-Career:...
(born 1964), Flemish children's writer - María Luisa PugaMaria Luisa PugaMaria Luisa Puga was a Mexican writer. Her 1983 novel Pánico o peligro won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award.-Biography:...
(born 1944), Mexican novelist and short-story writer
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- Suhayr al-Qalamāwī (1911–1997), Egyptian novelist, short-story writer and literary critic
- Magaly Quiñones (born 1945), Puerto Rican poet
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- Valentina Dimitrova RadinskaValentina Dimitrova RadinskaValentina Dimitrova Radinska is a Bulgarian poet.She studied at the Sofia University, and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute with an MA.She was an editor at Bulgarian Cinematography.She teaches at Sofia University....
(born 1951), Bulgarian poet, essayist and translator - Nasrin Rahimieh (born 1958), Iranian literary critic and editor
- Hanna RambeHanna RambeHanna Rambe is an Indonesian writer and journalist and was educated largely in Jakarta. In the mid-1960s, she entered the Literature Department at the University of Indonesia where she enrolled in the English language division, but she did not complete her schooling...
(born 1940), Indonesian fiction writer and journalist - Franca RameFranca RameFranca Rame is an Italian theatre actress and playwright. She is also the wife of Nobel Prize winning author Dario Fo and the mother of the writer Jacopo Fo.- Life :...
(born 1929), Italian dramatist - Fabrizia Ramondino (born 1936), Italian writer, essayist and screenwriter
- Ravinder Randhawa (born 1952), Indian-British short-story writer and novelist
- Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaia (born 1954), Russian poet, memoirist and prose writer
- Muniru Ravanipur (born 1954), Iranian novelist
- Dahlia RavikovitchDahlia Ravikovitch-Biography:Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 27, 1936. She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Russian-born Jewish engineer who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious...
(born 1936), Israeli poet - Pratibha RayPratibha RayPratibha Ray is an Indian academic and writer. She was born on 21 January 1943, at Alabol, a remote village in the Balikuda area of Jagatsinghpur district formerly part of Cuttack district of Orissa state....
(born 1944), Indian novelist - Hannie RaysonHannie Rayson-Biography:Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor in addition to her primary career as playwright and screenwriter. Rayson was the co-founder of the community...
(born 1957), Australian playwright and freelance writer - Marie Redonnet (born 1948), French novelist and dramatist
- Ruth Rehmann (born 1922), German novelist and short story writer
- Christa Reinig (born 1926), German novelist
- Gerlind Reinshagen (born 1926), German playwright
- Ruth RendellRuth RendellRuth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....
(born 1930), English mystery writer and short-story writer - Fahmida RiazFahmida RiazFahmida Riaz is a well known Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan. She is author of Godaavari, Khatt-e Marmuz, and Khana e Aab O Gil, the first translation of the Masnavi of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi into Urdu.- Early life :...
(born 1945), Pakistani poet and fiction writer - Esmeralda Ribeiro (born 1958), Brazilian poet, short-story writer and journalist
- Anne RiceAnne RiceAnne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
(born 1941), US novelist - Adrienne RichAdrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
(born 1929), US poet and essayist - Sylvie Richterová (born 1945), Czech prose writer
- Alifa RifaatAlifa RifaatFatimah Rifaat better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat, was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, relationships, and loss in rural Egyptian culture...
(1930–1996), Egyptian short-story writer - Christine de Rivoyre (born 1921), French novelist and journalist
- Michèle RobertsMichèle RobertsMichèle Brigitte Roberts is a British writer, novelist and poet. Roberts was the daughter of a French Catholic teacher mother and English Protestant father ; she has dual UK-France nationality.-Early life:She was raised in Edgware, Middlesex and educated at a convent, expecting to become a nun,...
(born 1949), British novelist and poet - Régine RobinRégine RobinRégine Robin is a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the sociological practice of literature, have earned a number of awards, including the Governor-General's Award in 1986...
(born 1939), French-Canadian novelist - Marilynne RobinsonMarilynne Robinson-Biography:Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A., magna cum laude in 1966, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D...
(born 1944), US novelist - Mireya RoblesMireya RoblesMireya Robles is an award-winning Cuban American writer and literary critic.Robles was born in Guantánamo, she was educated in Cuba where she attended the Institute of Guantánamo and the University of Havana. She emigrated to the United States in 1957 and continued her studies at the Russell Sage...
(born 1934), Cuban-US poet, novelist and short-story writer - Christiane RochefortChristiane RochefortChristiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War...
(1917–1998), French novelist - Mercè RodoredaMercè RodoredaMercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Spanish Catalan novelist in the Catalan language.She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period...
(1908–1983), Catalan fiction writer - Judith RodriguezJudith RodriguezJudith Catherine Rodriguez AM is a contemporary Australian poet.- Life :Rodriguez was born Judith Catherine Green in Perth and grew up in Brisbane. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, and graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts...
(born 1936), Australian poet and editor - Astrid Roemer (born 1947), Surinamese novelist and poet
- Lalla RomanoLalla RomanoLalla Romano was an Italian novelist, poet, and journalist.- Life and work :...
(born 1909, Italian novelist - Rong Zi (born 1928), Chinese-Taiwan poet
- Ninotchka RoscaNinotchka RoscaNinotchka Rosca is a Filipina feminist, author, journalist and human rights activist who is active in AF3IRM , the Mariposa Center for Change , Sisterhood is Global and the initiating committee of the MARIPOSA ALLIANCE , a multi-racial, multi-ethnic women's activist center for understanding the...
(born 1946), Philippine fiction writer and essayist - Amelia RosselliAmelia RosselliAmelia Rosselli was an Italian poet. She was the daughter of Marion Cave, an English political activist, and Carlo Rosselli, who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder, with his brother Nello, of the liberal socialist movement "Justice and Liberty." He and his brother were...
(1930–1996), Italian poet - Arundhati RoyArundhati RoyArundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...
(born 1961), Indian novelist - Gabrielle RoyGabrielle RoyGabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC was a French Canadian author.- Biography :Born in Saint Boniface , Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy...
(1909–1983), Canadian novelist - Ru Zhijuan (born 1925), Chinese fiction writer
- Dina Il'inichna Rubina (born 1953), Russian prose writer
- Gillian RubinsteinGillian RubinsteinGillian Rubinstein is an English-born children's author and playwright. Born in Potten End, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Rubinstein split her childhood between England and Nigeria, moving to Australia in 1973. As well as eight plays, numerous short stories and articles, she has written...
(born 1942), Australian novelist and children's dramatist - Renate RubinsteinRenate RubinsteinRenate Ida Rubinstein was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.- Biography :Rubinstein was born in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother...
(1929-1900), Dutch journalist, essayist and memoirist - Helga RuebsamenHelga RuebsamenHelga Ruebsamen is a Dutch writer. She received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1998 for Het lied en de waarheid.-Works:*De kameleon *De heksenvriend *Wonderolie...
(born 1936), Dutch novelist and short-story writer - Jane RuleJane RuleJane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.-Biography:Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Jane Vance Rule was the oldest daughter of Carlotta Jane and Arthur Richards Rule. She claimed she was a tomboy growing up and felt like an outsider for reaching six...
(born 1931), Canadian novelist and short-story writer - Carol RumensCarol RumensCarol Rumens FRSL is a British poet.-Life:Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to grammar school and later studied Philosophy at London University, but left before completing her degree...
(or Carol-Ann Rumens) (born 1944), British poet - Layla Sarahat Rushani (born c. 1952-4), Afghan poet
- Joanna RussJoanna RussJoanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny...
(born 1937), US science fiction writer and feminist critic - Gig RyanGig RyanGig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anna Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan...
(Elizabeth Ryan) (born 1956), Australian poet and songwriter
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- Sarojini SahooSarojini SahooSarojini Sahoo is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winner Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and associate editor of Chennai based English magazine Indian AGE, who has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by ‘Kindle’ English magazine of Kolkata.Born in the...
(born 1956), Indian novelist, short story writer, poet, columnist and blogger - Astrid Saalbach (born 1955), Danish playwright
- Souad al-Sabah (born 1942), Kuwaiti poet and economist
- Nawāl al-Sa'dāwī (born 1930), Egyptian novelist, short-story writer and activist
- Mallika SenguptaMallika SenguptaMallika Sengupta is a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry".- Biography :...
(born 1960), Indian Bengali poet, writer, gender activist and sociologist - Nina Mikhailovna Sadur (born 1950), Russian prose writer and playwright
- Elif ŞafakElif SafakElif Şafak , is a Turkish writer who writes in both Turkish and English. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.-Fiction:...
(born 1971), Turkish novelist and historian - Tahirih Saffarzedeh (born 1936), Iranian poet
- Françoise SaganFrançoise SaganFrançoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...
(born 1935), French novelist and dramatist - Nayantara SahgalNayantara SahgalNayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indo-Anglian writers to receive wide recognition...
(born 1927), Indian novelist - Bahar Said (born c. 1954), Afghan poet
- Titie Said (born 1935), Indonesian fiction writer
- Lisa St Aubin de TeranLisa St Aubin de TeránLisa St Aubin de Terán is an award-winning English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in 1953 and brought up in Clapham in South London. She attended the James Allen's Girls' School...
(born 1953), British novelist, poet and travel writer - Zdena Salivarová (born 1933), Czech prose writer
- Mary Jo SalterMary Jo SalterMary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...
(born 1954), US poet - Ghāda al-SammānGhada al-SammanGhada al-Samman is an Arab Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family, she is remotely related to Nizar Qabbani the famous poet. Her father was Dr. Ahmed al-Samman, PhD, a president of the Syrian University...
(born 1942, Syrian novelist - Helke SanderHelke SanderHelke Sander is a German feminist film director and writer.Sander attended a drama school in Hamburg. While married to Finnish writer Markku Lahtela, with whom she had a son, she worked as director at the worker's theatre and for Finnish television...
(born 1937), German film-maker and prose writer - Francesca Sanvitale (born 1928), Italian novelist and journalist
- Nathalie SarrauteNathalie SarrauteNathalie Sarraute was a French lawyer and writer of Russian Jewish origin.-Life:Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo , 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 , and, following...
(1900–1999), French novelist and dramatist - Ratna Sarumpaet (born 1949), Indonesian dramatist
- Munā al-Sa'ūdī (born 1945), Jordanian poet
- Cathleen SchineCathleen SchineCathleen Schine is an American author of several novels, including Rameau's Niece .Her first book was Alice in Bed , which was followed by To The Birdhouse , The Love Letter and The Evolution of Jane . The Love Letter was filmed in 1999...
(born 1953), US novelist - Annie M. G. SchmidtAnnie M. G. SchmidtAnna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt was a prolific Dutch writer, especially cherished for her children's books—"the most versatile and most talented children's book author in the Netherlands." She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song and the queen of Dutch children's...
(1911–1995), Dutch children's writer - Solveig von Schoultz (1907–1996), Finland-Swedish poet and short-story writer
- Simone Schwartz-Bart (born 1938), Guadeloupean novelist
- Leïla SebbarLeila SebbarLeïla Sebbar is an Algerian author, born on 9 November 1941 to the daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father. She spent her youth in colonial Algeria but now lives in Paris...
(born 1941), French-Algerian novelist and short-story writer - Olga Aleksandrovna Sedakova (born 1949), Russian poet and prose writer
- Anna SeghersAnna SeghersAnna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...
(1900–1983), German novelist and short-story writer - Mabel SegunMabel SegunMabel Segun is a Nigerian poet and writer born in Ondo, Nigeria. She attended the University of Ibadan. She was the former president of the Children's literature association of Nigeria...
(born 1930), Nigerian fiction writer, essayist and poet - Nava SemelNava SemelNava Semel is an Israeli and internationally published author, playwright, screen writer and translator.-Biography:Nava Semel was born 1954 in Yaffo, daughter of Mimi and the late Itzhak Artzi, both Holocaust survivors. She is the younger sister of Israeli Rock star Shlomo Artzi.She has an MA in...
(born 1954), Israeli fiction writer and dramatist - Nabaneeta Dev SenNabaneeta Dev SenNabaneeta Dev Sen is an award-winning Indian poet, novelist and academic.- Personal life :Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, to the poet-couple Narendra Dev and Radharani Devi. In addition to Bengali and English, she reads Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Sanskrit, and Hebrew.In the very next...
(born 1938), Indian fiction writer, poet and critic - Olive SeniorOlive SeniorOlive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada.She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston. She later won a scholarship to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales, and then at Carleton...
(born 1941), Jamaican short-story writer and poet - Anne SextonAnne SextonAnne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...
(1928–1974), US poet - Ntozake ShangeNtozake ShangeNtozake Shange born October 18, 1948, is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism....
(born 1948), US dramatist, poet and novelist - Hanān al-ShaykhHanan al-ShaykhHanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese author of contemporary Arab women's literature.- Biography :Hanan al-Shaykh's family background is that of a strict Shi'a...
(born 1945), Lebanese novelist and short-story writer - Galina Nikolaevna Shcherbakova (born 1932), Russian prose writer and scriptwriter
- Tatiana Georgievna Shcherbina (born 1954), Russian poet
- Shen Rong (born 1936), Chinese fiction writer
- Shi Shuqing (born 1945), Chinese-Taiwan fiction writer
- Carol ShieldsCarol ShieldsCarol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.-Biography:Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois...
(born 1935), Canadian novelist - Shin Kyǒgsuk (born 1963), South Korean novelist
- Janice Shinebourne (born 1947), Guyanese short-story writer and novelist
- Elaine ShowalterElaine ShowalterElaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics.She is well known and respected in both academic and popular...
(born 1941), US feminist literary critic - Shu TingShu TingShu Ting is the pseudonyms of Gong Peiyu , a Chinese poet.-Life:...
(born 1952), Chinese poet - Elena Andreevna Shvarts (born 1948), Russian poet
- Si Pha (M. L. Sipha Ladavalya Mahawann) (born 1930), Thai writer
- Sidaoruang (Wanna Sawatsi) (born 1943), Thai fiction writer
- Bapsi SidhwaBapsi SidhwaBapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is perhaps best known for her collaborative work with filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is...
(born 1938), Pakistani novelist - Raija SiekkinenRaija SiekkinenRaija Siekkinen was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1998.-References:...
(born 1953), Finnish novelist - Fríða Á. SigurðardóttirFríða Á. SigurðardóttirFríða Áslaug Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic novelist and short story writer. She made her literary debut in 1980, with the collection of short stories, Þetta er ekki alvarlegt...
(born 1940), Icelandic novelist and short-story writer - Steinunn SigurðardóttirSteinunn SigurðardóttirSteinunn Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic author.She finished her university studies in 1972 with a BA in psychology and philosophy at University College Dublin. Since then, she has worked as a journalist for radio and television. She has lived in different places in Europe, the United States and...
(born 1950), Icelandic novelist, short-story writer, poet and playwright - Leslie Marmon SilkoLeslie Marmon SilkoLeslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance...
(born 1948), US novelist, poet and short-story writer - Kirsti Simonsuuri (born 1945), Finnish poet, essayist and prose writer
- Mona Simpson (born 1957), US novelist
- Maj SjöwallMaj SjöwallMaj Sjöwall is a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm...
(born 1935), Swedish crime fiction writer - Michelle Cruz Skinner (born 1965), Philippine fiction writer
- Jane SmileyJane SmileyJane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the...
(born 1949), US novelist and short-story writer - Elizabeth SmitherElizabeth SmitherElizabeth Smither MNZM is a New Zealand poet and writer.She worked as a librarian.-Awards:* 2002 Te Mata Poet Laureate.* 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry* 2008 Prime Minister's Award for poetry....
(born 1941), New Zealand poet and fiction writer - Krishna SobtiKrishna SobtiKrishna Sobti is a Hindi fiction writer and essayist, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi....
(born 1925), Indian fiction writer - Zulu SofolaZulu SofolaZulu Sofola was the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist.Her parents were Igbo from Issele-Uku in Delta State. She studied at Virginia Union Baptist Seminary and The Catholic University of America and she obtained her PhD from University of Ibadan...
(1935–1995), Nigerian playwright - Cathy SongCathy SongCathy Song is an Asian-American poet. She is the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection Picture Bride. Song now resides in Kahala, Hawaii.-Personal life:Song was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii...
(born 1955), US poet - Susan SontagSusan SontagSusan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
(born 1933), US essayist - Aminata Sow FallAminata Sow FallAminata Sow Fall is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French.-Life:She was born 1941 in Saint-Louis, Senegal where she grew up before moving to Dakar to finish her secondary schooling...
(born 1941), Senegalese novelist - Sevgi Soysal (1936–1976), Turkish short-story writer and novelist
- Muriel SparkMuriel SparkDame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...
(born 1918), Scottish novelist, poet and short-story writer - Maria Luisa SpazianiMaria Luisa SpazianiMaria Luisa Spaziani is an Italian poet.She was born in Turin in 1924. At nineteen, Spaziani founded the review Il dado, working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vincenzo Ciaffi. Virginia Woolf sent her a chapter of her novel The Waves, autographed to Alla piccola...
(born 1924), Italian poet and critic - Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakGayatri Chakravorty SpivakGayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic, theorist and a University Professor at Columbia University. She is best known for the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. She...
(born 1942), Indian-US cultural theorist - Eintou Pearl SpringerEintou Pearl SpringerEintou Pearl Springer is a poet from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the Poet Laureate of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago....
(born 1944), Trinidadian poet and dramatist - Verena Stefan (born 1947), Swiss-German prose writer and poet
- Ginka Steinwachs (born 1942), German novelist, dramatist and essayist
- Eira StenbergEira StenbergEira Stenberg is a Finnish playwright and writer and recipient of the J. H. Erkko Award in 1966 for her debut novel Kapina huoneessa, and the Eino Leino Prize in 2007.-References:...
(born 1943), Finnish poet and novelist - Anne StevensonAnne StevensonAnne Stevenson is an American-British poet and writer.-Life:Stevenson's parents Louise Destler Stevenson and C.L. Stevenson met at a Cincinnati High School. They were living in Cambridge, England, where Charles was studying philosophy under I. A. Richards and Wittgenstein, when their first...
(born 1933), British poet and biographer - Jennifer StraussJennifer StraussJennifer Strauss AM is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and Melbourne University. Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing...
(born 1933), Australian poet, essayist and critic - Eva StrömEva StrömEva Ström is a Swedish lyricist, novelist, biographer and literary critic. She made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Den brinnande zeppelinaren...
(born 1947), Swedish poet, novelist and critic - Su Weizhen (born 1954), Chinese-Taiwan fiction writer and editor
- Sara Suleri Goodyear (born 1953), Pakistani-US prose writer and critic
- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (born 1950), Indian feminist cultural critic
- Supunpasaj Supasiri (born 1948), Thai short-story writer and memoirist
- Efua Theodora Sutherland (1924–1996), Ghanaian playwright and activist
- Suwanni SukhonthaSuwanni SukhonthaSuwanni Sukhontha was a nom de plume of Suwanni Sukhonthiang , a Thai novelist and SEATO Literary Award recipient.- Life :...
(Suwanni Sukhonthiang) (1932–1984), Thai fiction writer - Anna Swir (1909–1984), Polish poet and playwright
- Meera SyalMeera SyalMeera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No...
(born 1963), British-Indian screenwriter and novelist - Wisława Szymborska (born 1923), Polish poet
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- Véronique TadjoVéronique TadjoVéronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire.Born in Paris, Véronique Tadjo was the daughter of an Ivorian civil servant and a French painter and sculptor. Brought up in Abidjan, she travelled widely with her family. Tadjo completed her BA degree at the University of...
(born 1955), Côte d'Ivoire poet and novelist - Pia TafdrupPia TafdrupPia Tafdrup is a Danish writer; primarily a poet, she has also written a novel and two plays, as well as works for radio....
(born 1952), Danish poet and playwright - Takahashi Takako (born 1932), Japanese novelist and fiction writer
- Takenishi Hiroko (born 1929), Japanese novelist and critic
- Marie TakvamMarie TakvamMarie Takvam was a Norwegian lyricist, novel writer, writer of children's books, playwright and actor....
(born 1926), Norwegian poet - Susanna TamaroSusanna TamaroSusanna Tamaro is an Italian novelist. She has also worked as a scientific documentarist and movie maker direction assistant.-Biography:Susanna Tamaro was born in a family of middle class...
(born 1957), Italian novelist, short-story writer and children's writer - Amy TanAmy TanAmy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages...
(born 1952), US novelist - Goli Taraqqi (born 1939), Iranian novelist
- Latife TekinLatife TekinLatife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm was published. The magic realism in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions...
(born 1957), Turkish novelist - Lygia Fagundes TellesLygia Fagundes TellesLygia Fagundes Telles is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers....
(born 1923), Brazilian novelist and short-story writer - Emma TennantEmma TennantEmma Christina Tennant FRSL is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr....
(born 1937), British novelist - Hilary Tham (born 1946), Asian-American poet
- Susie Tharu (born 1943), Indian feminist cultural theorist
- Audrey ThomasAudrey ThomasAudrey Grace Thomas, OC is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.-Biography:...
(born 1935), Canadian novelist - Thomyanti (Wimol Siriphaiboon) (born 1945), Thai fiction writer
- Melanie Rae ThonMelanie Rae ThonMelanie Rae Thon is an American writer, "widely regarded as one of the most original stylists writing fiction today." Thon has received grants from the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation...
(born 1957), US novelist and short-story writer - Kirsten ThorupKirsten ThorupKirsten Thorup, a Danish author, was born in Funen, Denmark, in 1942 and now lives in Copenhagen. She is the author of three poetry collections, a volume of short stories, and three novels including Baby which has been translated into English. She has also written for films, television, and radio....
(born 1942), Danish novelist - Tie NingTie NingTie Ning is a Chinese author born in 1957 in Peking, China, with her ancestral hometown in Hebei Province. Her works include short stories, "Ah, Xiangxue"《哦，香雪》, "The Red Shirt Without Buttons"《沒有紐扣的紅襯衫》, "June's Big Topic"《六月的話題》, "Wheat Straw Stack"《麥秸垛》, "Cotton Stack"《棉花垛》, "The Village Road...
(born 1957), Chinese fiction writer - Edith L. TiempoEdith L. TiempoEdith L. Tiempo , poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.Tiempo was born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya...
(born 1919), Philippine poet and novelist - Märta TikkanenMärta TikkanenMärta Tikkanen is a Finnish writer. Born in Helsinki she has worked as a reporter for Hufvudstadsbladet from 1956 to 1961. She graduated from the University of Helsinki, Master of Arts in 1958 and received a Master of Philosophy in 1961...
(born 1935), Finland-Swedish novelist and editor - Totilawati Tjitrawasita (1945–1982), Indonesian fiction writer
- Miriam TlaliMiriam TlaliMiriam Tlali is a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel., Muriel at Metropolitan. She was also one of the first to write about Soweto....
(born 1933), South African novelist, journalist and short-story writer - Viktoriya Samoilovna Tokareva (born 1937), Russian prose writer, playwright and scriptwriter
- Tatyana TolstayaTatyana TolstayaTatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.- Family :She was born into a family of rich literary tradition. Her paternal grandfather was Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, an important Russian-Soviet writer known as 'the Red...
(born 1951), Russian short-story writer - Tomioka Taeko (born 1935), Japanese poet, novelist and fiction writer
- Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas (born 1951), Philippine poet, fiction writer and essayist
- Sue TownsendSue Townsend-Adrian Mole series:* The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ , her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.* The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole * The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole...
(born 1946), British novelist and playwright - Marta TrabaMarta trabaMarta Traba Taín was an art critic and writer well known for her important contributions in the study of Latin American art....
(1930–1983), Argentine-Columbian art critic, poet and novelist - Rose TremainRose TremainRose Tremain CBE is an English author.-Life:Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2, 1943 in London and attended Francis Holland School then Crofton Grange School from 1954 to 1961; the Sorbonne from 1961–1962; and graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1965 where she then...
(born 1943), British novelist and short-story writer - Joanna TrollopeJoanna TrollopeJoanna Trollope OBE , is an English novelist.-Life:Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office...
(born 1943), British novelist - Tsushima Yoko (born 1947), Japanese novelist
- Fadwā Tūqān (1917–2003), Palestinian poet
- Sirkka TurkkaSirkka TurkkaSirkka Turkka is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2000.-Works:*Huone avaruudessa *Valaan vatsassa *Minä se olen *Yö aukeaa kuin vilja...
(born 1939), Finnish poet - Patricia Turnbull (born 1952), St Lucian and Virgin Islands poet
- Esther TusquetsEsther TusquetsEsther Tusquets is a Spanish publisher, writer and essayist.Tusquets was was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and studied philosophy, literature and history at the University of Barcelona. She spent several years teaching literature and history at the Carillo Academy...
(born 1936), Spanish fiction writer - Linda Ty-Casper (born c. 1930s), Philippine fiction writer
- Anne TylerAnne TylerAnne Tyler is an American novelist.Tyler, the eldest of four children, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina and in Raleigh...
(born 1941), US novelist and short-story writer
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- Dubravka UgrešićDubravka UgrešicDubravka Ugrešić is a Croatian writer who lives in the Netherlands.- Background and education:Ugrešić was born in 1949 in Kutina, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia., She studied Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, pursuing parallel careers as a...
(born 1949), Croatian fiction writer and literary scholar - Adaora Lily UlasiAdaora Lily UlasiAdaora Lily Ulasi is a Nigerian journalist and novelist. As a journalist she has worked for the BBC and Voice of America. As a novelist she may be the first Nigerian to write detective fiction in English, "adapting the genre of the crime thriller to a Igbo or Yoruba context".-Novels:*Many Thing...
(born 1931), Nigerian journlalist and novelist - Liudmila Evgen'evna Ulitskaia (born 1943), Russian prose writer and scriptwriter
- Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera (born 1947), Puerto Rican poet and critic
- Uno Chiyo (1897–1996), Japanese novelist and essayist
- Jane UrquhartJane UrquhartJane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...
(born 1949), Canadian poet and fiction writer - Laylā 'Usayrān (born 1934), Lebanese novelist and journalist
- Laylā al-'Uthmān (born 1945), Kuwaiti novelist, short-story writer and journalist
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- V. Vinichayakul (Khunying Vinita Diteeyont) (born 1949), Thai fiction writer
- VaidehiVaidehi (Kannada writer)Janaki Srinivasa Murthy , popularly known by her pen name as Vaidehi is a well-known writer of modern Kannada language fiction. Vaidehi is one of the most successful woman writer in Kannada and winner of many prestigious national and state level literary awards...
(born 1945), Indian short-story writer and novelist - Luisa ValenzuelaLuisa ValenzuelaLuisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in...
(born 1938), Argentine novelist and short-story writer - Larisa L'vovna Vaneeva (born 1953), Russian prose writer
- Aritha van HerkAritha Van HerkAritha van Herk is a Canadian writer, critic, editor, and university professor.She was born in Wetaskiwin, Alberta . Her parents and elder siblings immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands before she was born. She grew up in a bilingual home, speaking English and Dutch. In 1974, she married...
(born 1954), Canadian writer - Ruth VanitaRuth VanitaRuth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, British and South Asian literary history....
(born 1955), Indian feminist critic, literary historian and poet - Edla Van Steen (born 1936), Brazilian novelist
- Inna Gustavovna Varlamova (Klavdiia Landau) (1922–1990), Russian prose writer
- Svetlana Vladimirovna Vasilenko (born 1956), Russian prose writer and scriptwriter
- Ana Lydia VegaAna Lydia VegaAna Lydia Vega is a celebrated Puerto Rican female writer. She has received the Premio Juan Rulfo and the Premio Casa de las Américas . Vega was a professor of French literature and Caribbean studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras...
(born 1946), Puerto Rican short-story writer - Svetlana Velmar-JankovićSvetlana Velmar-JankovicSvetlana Velmar-Janković is a Serbian novelist, essayist and chronicler of Belgrade. She was born in 1933 in Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and educated in Belgrade where she continues to live today....
(born 1949), Serbian novelist and literary critic - Yvonne VeraYvonne VeraYvonne Vera was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past...
(born 1964), Zimbabwean short-story writer and novelist - Anne-Cath. Vestly (Catharina) (born 1920), Norwegian children's writer
- Bea Vianen (born 1935), Surinamese novelist and poet
- Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948), Chilean poet
- Bjørg VikBjørg VikBjørg Vik is a Norwegian writer, playwright and journalist. She made her literary debut in 1963 with Søndag ettermiddag...
(born 1945), Norwegian short-story writer, novelist and playwright - Maruxa VilaltaMaruxa VilaltaMaruxa Vilalta is a Mexican playwright and a theatre director.Her plays have been translated, published and produced in numerous countries. She has won the critic’s prize for the best play of the year ten times....
(born 1932), Mexican dramatist and journalist - Idea Vilariño (born 1920), Uruguayan poet
- Linda VilhjálmsdóttirLinda VilhjálmsdóttirLinda Vilhjálmsdóttir is an Icelandic writer born on 1 June 1958. Her poetry began appearing in newspapers in 1982 and by 1990 she had a book of poetry...
(born 1958), Icelandic poet and playwright - Barbara Vine, see Ruth RendellRuth RendellRuth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....
- Helena Maria ViramontesHelena Maria ViramontesHelena Maria Viramontes is an American fiction writer and professor of English.-Childhood and education:Viramontes was born into a Mexican-American family....
(born 1954), US fiction writer and editor - Paula VogelPaula VogelPaula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive.-Early years:...
(born 1951), US playwright - Yona Volach (1944–1985), Israeli poet
- Juliia Nikolaevna Voznesenskaia (born 1940), Russian prose writer, poet and essayist
- Irena Vrkljan (born 1930), Croatian prose writer, poet and screenwriter
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- Elly de Waard (born 1940), Dutch poet
- Charity WaciumaCharity WaciumaCharity Waciuma is a Kenyan writer, who wrote several novels for adolescents and an autobiographical novel, Daughter of Mumbi .Charity Waciumbi grew up in pre-Independence Kenya, during the violent anti-colonial struggle between the Mau-Mau and British rulers...
(born c. 1930s), Kenyan autobiographer and children's writer - Surraya Wahidi (born 1955), Afghan poet
- Diane WakoskiDiane WakoskiDiane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...
(born 1937), US poet and essayist - Alice WalkerAlice WalkerAlice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender...
(born 1944), US novelist, poet, short-story writer and essayist - Maxie Wander (1933–1977), German prose writer
- Wang AnyiWang AnyiWang Anyi is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan, and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised...
(born 1954), Chinese fiction writer - Lulu Wang (born 1960), Dutch novelist
- Marina Warner (born 1946), English novelist, critic and children's writer
- Myriam Warner-Vieyra (born 1939), Guadeloupian novelist
- Wendy WassersteinWendy WassersteinWendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...
(born 1950), US playwright - Herbjørg WassmoHerbjørg WassmoHerbjørg Wassmo is a Norwegian author. She worked as a teacher in northern Norway until her debut as an author. Her debut work was a collection of poems, "Vingeslag"...
(born 1942), Norwegian novelist and poet - Phyllis WebbPhyllis WebbPhyllis Webb, is a Canadian poet and radio broadcaster. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as "a writer of stature in Canadian letters", and calls her work "brilliantly crafted, formal in its energies and humane in its concern"....
(1927–1997), Canadian poet - Sigrid WeigelSigrid WeigelSigrid Weigel is a German literature professor, and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin.She is a member of Academia Europaea, and the Modern Language Association.-Life:...
(born 1950), German feminist literary theorist - Fay WeldonFay WeldonFay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.-Biography:Weldon was...
(born 1933), English novelist, short-story writer and playwright - Timberlake WertenbakerTimberlake Wertenbaker- Biography :Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London...
(born 1951), English playwright and translator - Susan WicksSusan WicksSusan Wicks is a British poet, and novelist.She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent....
(born 1947), British poet and novelist - Zoë WicombZoe WicombZoë Wicomb is an author.She attended the University of the Western Cape, and after graduating left South Africa for England in 1970, where she continued her studies at Reading University....
(born 1948), South African short-story writer, essayist and activist - Marianne WigginsMarianne WigginsMarianne Wiggins is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won the Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.- Biography :...
(born 1947), US novelist - Dorrit WillumsenDorrit WillumsenDorrit Willumsen is a Danish writer. She made her literary debut in 1965 with the short story collection Knagen....
(born 1940), Danish novelist and short-story writer - Jeanette WintersonJeanette WintersonJeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson...
(born 1959), British novelist and short-story writer - Monique WittigMonique WittigMonique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964...
(born 1935), French writer - Amy WittingAmy WittingAmy Witting was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past".-Life:Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was...
(Joan Levick, née Fraser) (1918–2001), Australian fiction writer and poet - Gabriele WohlmannGabriele WohlmannGabriele Wohmann is a German novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She attended the Nordseepädagogium on the island Langeoog as a boarding school...
(born 1932), German novelist - Christa WolfChrista WolfChrista Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:...
(born 1929), East German fiction writer and essayist - Bikwan Flora Wong, see Huang Biyun
- Judith WrightJudith WrightJudith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.-Biography:...
(born 1915), Australian poet, children's writer and essayist - Sylvia WynterSylvia WynterSylvia Wynter, OJ, born in Cuba to Percival Wynter and Lola Maude Wynter, on 17 January 1928, is a Jamaican novelist,[1], dramatist[2], critic and writer of essays.[3]-Biography:...
(born 1928), Jamaican novelist and dramatist
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- Xi XiXi XiXi Xi is the pseudonym of the Chinese author and poet Zhang Yan . She was born in China and came to Hong Kong at the age of twelve. She was a teacher and now a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China...
(born 1938), Chinese-Hong Kong fiction writer and essayist - Xia YuXia YuXia Yu is a Chinese actor.-Biography:He was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He was initially discovered by Jiang Wen during his semi-autobiographical film In the Heat of the Sun . Xia was chosen partly because of facial resemblance to a young Jiang...
(born 1956), Chinese-Taiwan poet and songwriter - Xiao Sa (born 1953), Chinese-Taiwan fiction writer
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- Yamada Eimi (Amy) (born 1959), Japanese novelist and fiction writer
- Lois-Ann YamanakaLois-Ann YamanakaLois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaii. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues...
(born 1961), US novelist and poet - Yang JiangYang JiangYang Jiang , born Yang Jikang , is a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She has written several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Don Quixote from the Spanish original.-Biography:Yang Jiang was graduated from The University Of...
(born 1911), Chinese dramatist and fiction writer - Yang Kwi-ja (born 1955), Korean fiction writer
- Yang MoYang MoYang Mo was a Chinese writer who was most well known for her writing of the book Song of Youth in 1958, which was adapted into a film in 1959.-Bibliography:Song of Youth Tenant...
(1914–1995), Chinese fiction writer - Nazik Saba YaredNazik Saba YaredNazik Saba Yared is a Lebanese novelist, and academic.She graduated from American University of Beirut with a PhD.She taught at Lebanese American University, from 1978 to 1998.-Works:*حماد عجرد Dār al-Fikr al-Lubnān, 1983...
(born 1928), Palestinian novelist - Yoshimoto Banana (born 1964), Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist
- Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (born 1941)
- Marguerite YourcenarMarguerite YourcenarMarguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...
(1903–1987), French-writing novelist and translator - Yu LihuaYu LihuaYu Lihua is a Taiwanese woman writer.Yu Lihua was born in Shanghai and went to university in Taiwan, taking history at National Taiwan University...
(born 1931), Chinese fiction writer - Yu LuojinYu LuojinYu Luojin is a Chinese novelist.She graduated from Beijing Arts and Crafts School in 1966. She was a toy designer.During the Cultural Revolution, she was sentenced to forced labor, for diary entries. Her brother was tortured, and executed. She married Wang Shijing, divorced, then Cai Zhongpai, and...
(born 1946), Chinese fiction writer - Ovidia Yu (born 1960), Singaporean playwright
- Yuan QiongqiongYuan QiongqiongYuan Ch'iung-ch'iung is a Taiwanese writer. Yuan wrote poetry, fiction, essays, screenplays and television scripts during the Boudoir literature period for women...
(born 1950), Chinese-Taiwan fiction writer
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- Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko (born 1960), Ukrainian poet, novelist and essayist
- Dina ZamanDina ZamanDina Zaman is a Malaysian poet, short story writer and playwright.-Life:Dina Zaman's childhood was spent in Japan, Russia and other countries. She studied creative writing at Western Michigan University and Lancaster University...
(born 1969), Malaysian poet and short-story writer - Haifa ZanganaHaifa ZanganaHaifa Zangana is an Iraqi novelist, author, artist, and political activist. She is most notably known for writing Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London. Haifa grew up in Baghdad and graduated from Baghdad University and the School of pharmacy in 1974...
(born 1950), Iraqi novelist - Spojmai Rauuf Zaryab (born 1952), Afghan short-story writer
- Latifa Zayyat (1923–1996), Egyptian novelist, writer and activist
- Alki ZeiAlki ZeiAlki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...
(born c. 1926), Greek children's writer and novelist - Zelda (Zelda Shneurson Mishkowsky) (1914–1984), Israeli poet
- Zha Jianying (born 1959), Chinese fiction writer and essayist
- Zhai YongmingZhai YongmingZhai Yongming is a Chinese poet from Chengdu. After being sent away for two years during the Cultural Revolution to do manual labor in the countryside, she returned to Chengdu....
(born 1955), Chinese poet - Zhang AilingEileen ChangEileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....
(Eileen Chang) (1920–1995), Chinese fiction writer and essayist - Zhang JieZhang Jie (writer)Zhang Jie is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer. She was one of China's first contributors to feminist fiction.Her novel Leaden Wings was translated into German in 1982 and published in England in 1987 by Virago Press....
(born 1937), Chinese fiction writer - Zhang XinxinZhang XinxinZhang Xinxin , is a Chinese writer.-Works:* On the Same Horizon a novel* The Dreams of Our Generation a novellaZhang Xinxin , is a Chinese writer.-Works:* On the Same Horizon a novel...
(born 1953), Chinese fiction writer - Zheng MinZheng MinZheng Min is a Chinese scholar and poet. She studied philosophy in China and has published modernist poetry since her student days in the early 1940s. In the 1940s, she traveled to the United States, gaining an MA in literature from Brown University, and returned to China in 1955...
(born 1920), Chinese poet and literary critic - Zhong Ling (Chung Ling) (born 1945), Chinese-Taiwanese fiction writer, poet and translator
- Zhong Xiaoyang (born 1962), Chinese-Hong Kong fiction writer
- Zhu Tianwen (born 1956), Chinese-Taiwan fiction writer, screenwriter
- Zhu Tianxin (born 1958), Taiwan fiction writer and essayist
- Unica ZürnUnica ZürnUnica Zürn was a German author and painter. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry, exhibitions of automatic drawing, and her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer.-Biography:...
(1916–1970), German novelist and poet - Fay ZwickyFay ZwickyFay Zwicky is a contemporary Australian poet, short-story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer.-Life:...
(Fay Julia Zwicky) (born 1933), Australian poet and essayist