# List of Brazilian women writers

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
* Zuleika Alambert (1922–2012), feminist writer, politician
* Sarah Aldridge, pen name of Anyda Marchant (1911–2006), Brazilian-born American lesbian novelist, short story writer
* Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra (1898–1948), journalist, actress, theatre director
* Miriam Alves (born 1952), poet, short story writer
* Maria Adelaide Amaral (born 1942), playwright, screenwriter, novelist
* Narcisa Amalia (1856–1924), poet, journalist, women's rights activist
* Suzana Amaral (1932–2020), film director, screenwriter
* Leilah Assunção (born 1943), significant playwright, actress

## B

* Bruna Beber (born 1984), poet, writer
* Carol Bensimon (born 1982), short story writer, novelist
* Tati Bernardi (born 1979), short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist
* Beatriz Francisca de Assis Brandão (1779–1868), poet, literary and theatrical translator
* Eliane Brum (born 1966), journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer

## 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
* Giselle Cossard (1923–2016) French Brazilian Anthropologist
* 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
* Cristina de Queiroz (1944 –2017), short story writer
* Maria José Dupré (1905–1984), popular novelist, author of Éramos Seis

## E

* Conceição Evaristo (born 1946), novelist, poet, short story writer

## F

* Lygia Fagundes Telles (1918–2022), novelist, short story writer
* Francisca Praguer Fróes (1872–1931), physician, feminist, non-fiction writer
* Nísia Floresta (1810–1885), early feminist writer
* Eva Furnari (born 1948), Italian-born children's 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
* Ruth Guimarães (1920–2014), first Afro=Brazilian author to gain a national audience for novels, short stories, and poetry

## 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

* Noemi Jaffe (born 1962), novelist, educator
* Jaqueline Jesus (born 1978), psychologist, gay rights activist, non-fiction writer
* Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977), diarist

## K

* Helena Kolody (1912–2004), poet

## L

* Ângela Lago (1945–2017), children's author
* Maria Lacerda de Moura (1887–1945), anarchist, journalist, non-fiction writer
* Danuza Leão (1933–2022), columnist, non-fiction writer
* Vange Leonel (1963–2014), singer, 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 (1938–2021), 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), playwright, children's writer
* Tânia Martins (born 1957), poet
* Olga Maynard (1913–1994), Brazilian-born prolific American non-fiction writer
* Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), acclaimed poet
* Ana Miranda (born 1951), novelist
* Ana Montenegro (1915–2006), poet, feminist writer, communist writer
* Rose Marie Muraro (1930–2014), sociologist, feminist writer

## N

* Adalgisa Nery (1905–1980), poet, short story writer, journalist, politician
* Lucila Nogueira (1950–2016), poet, essayist and short story writer

## O

* Marly de Oliveira (c.1938–2007), prolific poet, educator
* Orlandina de Oliveira (born 1943), Brazilian-born Mexican sociologist, academic, non-fiction writer

## P

* Elvira Pagã (1920–2003), film actress, writer, singer
* Alina Paim (1919–2011), novelist, children's literature, feminist writer, communist writer
* Pagu, pen name of Patrícia Rehder Galvão (1910–1962), poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, translator
* Paula Parisot (born 1978), writer
* Nélida Piñon (1937–2022), 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
* Cassandra Rios (1932-2002), fiction, mystery, and specially lesbian erotica author.
* Maria Firmina dos Reis (1825–1917), novelist, poet

## S

* Carola Saavedra (born 1973), novelist
* 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
* Angelina Soares (1910–1985), feminist writer
* Heloneida Studart (1932–2007), novelist, essayist, playwright, columnist, women's rights activist
* Auta de Souza (1876–1901), poet
* Syang, stage name of Simone Dreyer Peres (born 1968), musician, erotic writer

## T

* Malvina Tavares (1866–1939), anarchist, poet, educator
* Lygia Fagundes Telles (1918–2022, novelist, short story writer
* Lourdes Teodoro (born 1946), Afro-Brazilian poet and literary critic
* 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 (1936–2018), journalist, broadcaster, actress, short story writer, playwright
* Vira Vovk (1926–2022), Ukrainian-born Brazilian poet, novelist, playwright, translator, writing in Ukrainian, German and Portuguese