List of Brazilian women writers
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This is a list of women writers who were born in Brazil or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
A
- Carine Adler (born 1948), screenwriter, film director
- Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra (1898–1948), journalist, actress, theatre director
- Maria Adelaide Amaral (born 1942), playwright, screenwriter, novelist
- Sarah Aldridge, pen name of Anyda Marchant (1911–2006), Brazilian-born American lesbian novelist, short story writer
- Miriam Alves (born 1952), poet, short story writer
- Suzana Amaral (born 1928), film director, screenwriter
- Leilah Assunção (born 1943), significant playwright, actress
B
- Carol Bensimon (born 1982), short story writer, novelist
C
- Astrid Cabral (born 1936), acclaimed poet, educator
- Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), young diarist
- Joyce Cavalccante (born 1963), novelist, poet, short story writer
- Kátya Chamma (born 1961), singer, poet
- Marina Colasanti (born 1937), Italian-born Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, translator
- Cora Coralina (1889–1985), poet, children's writer
- Ana Cristina Cesar (1952–1983), poet, translator
- Mariana Coelho (1857–1954), essayist, poet, educator, feminist
- Sonia Coutinho (1939–2013), journalist, short story writer, novelist
- Helena Parente Cunha (born 1929), poet, novelist, short story writer, educator
D
- Márcia Denser (born 1949), magazine editor, columnist, short story writer
- Maria José Dupré (1905–1984), popular novelist, author of Éramos Seis
F
- Nísia Floresta (1810–1885), early feminist writer
- Francisca Praguer Fróes (1872–1931), physician, feminist, non-fiction writer
- Lygia Fagundes Telles (born 1923), novelist, short story writer
G
- Zélia Gattai (1916–2008), photographer, memoirist, novelist, children's writer
- Ivone Gebara (born 1944), nun, feminist theologian, religious writer
- Luisa Geisler (born 1991), short story writer, novelist
H
- Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), poet, playwright, novelist
I
- Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970), Brazilian-born American novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer, journalist, feminist
J
- Jaqueline Jesus (born 1978), psychologist, gay rights activist, non-fiction writer
- Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977), diarist
L
- Maria Lacerda de Moura (1887–1945), anarchist, journalist, non-fiction writer
- Danuza Leão (born 1933), columnist, non-fiction writer
- Vange Leonel (1963–2014), signer, journalist, novelist, playwright, feminist
- Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), journalist, novelist
- Henriqueta Lisboa (1901–1985), widely translated poet, essayist, translator
- Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), acclaimed novelist, short story writer, journalist
- Elisa Lispector (1911–1989), novelist
- Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862–1934), early Brazilian female novelist, short story writer, playwright, feminist
- Lya Luft (born 1938), novelist, poet, translator
M
- Ana Maria Machado (born 1941), children's writer
- Gilka Machado (1893–1980), poet
- Lúcia Machado de Almeida (1910–2005), poet, novelist, children's writer
- Maria Clara Machado (1921–2001), successful playwright, children's writer
- Olga Maynard (1913–1994), Brazilian-born prolific American non-fiction writer
- Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), acclaimed poet
- Ana Miranda (born 1951), novelist
- Rose Marie Muraro (1930–2014), sociologist, feminist writer
N
- Adalgisa Nery (1905–1980), poet, short story writer, journalist, politician
O
- Marly de Oliveira (c.1938–2007), prolific poet, educator
P
- Pagu, pen name of Patrícia Rehder Galvão (1910–1962), poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, translator
- Nélida Piñon (born 1937), novelist, short story writer
- Adélia Prado (born 1935), poet, poetry translated into English
Q
- Rachel de Queiroz (1910–2003), journalist, novelist, playwright, non-fiction writer
R
- Regina Rheda (born 1957), Brazilian-born American novelist, short story writer, children's writer
- Esmeralda Ribeiro (born 1958), journalist, novelist
- Maria Firmina dos Reis (1825–1917), novelist, poet
S
- Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995), poet, lawyer, feminist
- Yde Schloenbach Blumenschein (1882–1963), poet, memoirist
- Diná Silveira de Queirós (1911–1922), novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, children's writer
- Alessandra Silvestri-Levy (born 1972), art patron, non-fiction writer
- Heloneida Studart (1932–2007), novelist, essayist, playwright, columnist, women's rights activist
- Syang, stage name of Simone Dreyer Peres (born 1968), musician, erotic writer
T
- Malvina Tavares (1866–1939), anarchist, poet, educator
- Lygia Fagundes Telles (born 1923), novelist, short story writer
- Marcia Theophilo (born 1941), poet, short story writer, essayist, writes in Portuguese, Italian and English
- Wal Torres (born 1950), sexologist, non-fiction writer
V
- Luize Valente (born 1966), novelist, film maker, journalist
- Edla Van Steen (born 1936), journalist, broadcaster, actress, short story writer, playwright
- Vira Vovk (born 1926), Ukrainian-born Brazilian poet, novelist, playwright, translator, writing in Ukrainian, German and Portuguese