List of Algerian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Algeria or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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Nora Aceval (born 1953), folk story writer
Fadhma Aït Mansour (c.1882–1967), autobiographer
Taos Amrouche (1913–1976), novelist, singer, first Algerian woman to publish a novel
Leïla Aouchal (born 1936), French-born Algerian writer, autobiographer

Yamina Bachir (born 1954), screenwriter, film director
Samira Bellil (1972–2004), Algerian-born French feminist, author of the autobiographical Dans l'enfer des tournantes
Latifa Ben Mansour (born 1950), novelist, playwright, short story writer, linguist
Nouria Benghabrit-Remaoun (born 1952), sociologist, politician, non-fiction writer
Nassira Belloula (born 1961), journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, feminist
Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker (1888–1942), first Jewish woman to be published in Algeria
Maïssa Bey (born 1950), educator, short story writer, novelist

Marie Cardinal (1929–2001), best selling novelist, film actress
Corinne Chevallier (born 1935), historian, novelist
Hélène Cixous (born 1937), educator, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, critic, feminist writer

Assia Djebar, pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (1936–2015), novelist, translator, filmmaker

Malika Mokeddem (born 1949), acclaimed novelist
Ahlam Mosteghanemi, since the 1970s, poet, novelist, most widely read female Arabic-language writer

Leïla Sebbar (born 1941), novelist, essayist, travel writer, critic, short story writer, educator

Zuhur Wanasi (born 1937), Arabic-language short story writer, journal editor, politician
Maryse Wolinski (born 1943), Algerian-born French journalist, novelist

Lists of women writers by nationality

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