# List of Dutch women writers

This is a list of women writers born in the Netherlands, or whose writings are closely associated with it.

## A

* Jo van Ammers-Küller (1884–1966), interwar novelist and non-fiction writer
* Threes Anna (born 1959), novelist, live performance producer and film director

## B

* Maria Barnas (born 1973), novelist, poet and essayist
* Marjolein Bastin (born 1943), children's writer and illustrator
* Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), prioress and author of early Dutch prose work Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen (Seven Ways of Holy Love)
* Thea Beckman (1923–2004), children's writer
* Nel Benschop (1918–2005), poet
* Carli Biessels (1936–2016), children's writer
* Anna Blaman (1905–1960), poet and novelist
* Marion Bloem (born 1952), Indo (Dutch/East Indian) novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer
* Louise Sophie Blussé (1801–1896), non-fiction writer
* Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886), novelist
* Anneke Brassinga (born 1948), poet, prose writer and translator
* Til Brugman (1888–1958), poet, novelist and translator
* Andreas Burnier (1931–2002), poet, novelist and active feminist

## C

* Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), correspondent, novelist and playwright writing in French
* Willy Corsari (1897–1998), novelist, actress, comédienne and composer

## D

* Aagje Deken (1741–1804), poet and correspondent
* Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), novelist; author of The Ten Thousand Things
* Thea Doelwijt (born 1938), journalist, novelist and playwright
* Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), journalist and novelist
* Tonke Dragt (born 1930), children's writer and illustrator; author of De brief voor de Koning (Letter for the King)
* Jessica Durlacher (born 1961), critic, columnist and novelist

## E

* Anna Enquist (born 1945), poet and novelist
* Henrica van Erp (c. 1480 – 1548), abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle

## F

* Anne Frank (1929–1945), author of The Diary of a Young Girl and Holocaust victim

## G

* Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997), poet
* Hermine de Graaf (1951–2013), fiction writer
* Els de Groen (born 1949), politician, novelist and non-fiction writer
* Wies van Groningen (née Louise Metaal) (1929–2022), Moluccan Dutch writer and story collector

## H

* Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998 onwards), historian of gender studies
* Hella Haasse (1918–2011), novelist with some works set in the East Indies
* Judith Herzberg (born 1934), poet and playwright
* Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939), children's writer in West Frisian and Dutch
* Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), diarist and correspondent during the German occupation of Amsterdam
* Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), poet and composer
* Marjolijn Hof (born 1956), novelist with some works translated into English
* Xaviera Hollander (born 1943), call girl and memoirist
* Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1781–1846), feminist writer
* Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902), feminist activist and columnist

## I

* Marith Iedema (born 1989), journalist and documentarian

## K

* Marie Kessels (born 1954), poet and prose writer
* Yvonne Keuls (born 1931), Indo writer and novelist
* Yvonne Kroonenberg (born 1950), psychologist, columnist and author of works about men
* Mina Kruseman (1839–1922), feminist and non-fiction writer
* Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989), historical writer
* Emy Koopman (born 1985), video and print journalist, bibliotherapy researcher and scholar

## L

* Astrid Lampe (born 1955), poet and actress
* Katharyne Lescailje (1649–1711), poet and translator
* Noni Lichtveld (1929–2017), children's writer and illustrator based in Suriname
* Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), memoirist and translator
* Tessa de Loo (born 1946), novelist
* Emilie Luzac (1748–1788), correspondent

## M

* Cissy van Marxveldt (1889–1948), children's writer
* Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma (1918–2001), columnist and children's writer
* Clara Meijers (1885–1964), feminist writer
* Vonne van der Meer (born 1952), fiction writer and playwright
* Doeschka Meijsing (1947–2012), novelist
* Hanny Michaelis (1922–2007), poet
* Marga Minco (1920–2023), journalist and novelist
* Marente de Moor (born 1972), novelist and columnist
* Mieke Mosmuller (born 1951), fiction and non-fiction writer in Dutch and German
* Mirjam Mous (born 1963), author of children's literature
* Marian Mudder (born 1958), columnist and non-fiction writer
* Charlotte Mutsaers (born 1942), prose writer and essayist

## N

* Saskia Noort (born 1967), crime-fiction writer and journalist

## P

* Connie Palmen (born 1955), novelist
* Marianne Philips (1886–1951), psychological novelist and politician
* Ethel Portnoy (1927–2004), essayist, columnist and fiction writer in English
* Maria Pypelinckx (1538–1608), correspondent

## Q

* Catharina Questiers (1631–1669), poet and playwright

## R

* Veronique Renard (born 1965), trans woman memoirist and non-fiction writer in English
* Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952), poet, playwright and biographer
* Astrid Roemer (born 1947), Suriname novelist and poet living in the Netherlands
* Hannie Rouweler (born 1951), Dutch poet
* Heleen van Royen (born 1965), novelist and columnist
* Renate Rubinstein (1929–1990), journalist, columnist and non-fiction writer
* Helga Ruebsamen (1934–2016), columnist and novelist
* Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990), children's writer

## S

* Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000), historical works on Ancient Greece and Persia
* Annet Schaap (born 1965), children's literature
* Margo Scharten-Antink (1868–1957), poet and novelist
* Mineke Schipper (born 1938), novelist and non-fiction writer on women's literature
* Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995), children's writer and television screenwriter
* Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678), German-born poet with works in Latin in defence of female education
* Anja Sicking (born 1965), fiction writer
* Hilda van Stockum (1908–2006), English-language children's writer

## T

* Marianne Thieme (born 1972), politician and writer on animals rights
* Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723–1786), poet and translator

## U

* Mellie Uyldert (1908–2009), astrologer and esoteric writer

## V

* M. Vasalis (1909–1998), poet and psychiatrist
* Cornelia van der Veer (1639–1704), poet
* Jacoba van Velde (1903–1985), novelist author of De grote zaal
* Stephanie Vetter (1884–1974), fiction writer
* Anna Visscher (1584–1651), poet and translator
* Simone van der Vlugt (born 1966), historical and young-adult novelist
* Ida Vos (1931–2006), children's writer
* Beb Vuyk (1905–1991), Indo fiction writer

## W

* Lulu Wang (born 1960), Chinese-born novelist writing in Dutch
* Elly de Waard (born 1940), poet and music critic
* Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760–1830), poet
* Betje Wolff (1738–1804), epistolary novelist of works co-authored with Aagje Deken

## Z

* Marie van Zeggelen (1870–1957), novelist and children's writer
* Annejet van der Zijl (born 1962), novelist and biographer