List of New Zealand writers
Writers who have contributed to New Zealand literature include:
A
- Avis Acres
- Catherine Mary Ann Adamson
- Pip Adam
- Fleur Adcock
- Rosetta Allan
- Pamela Allen
- Margaret Alington
- Pinky Agnew
- Barbara Anderson
- Catherine Ann Andersen
- Isabella Smith Andrews
- Mike Ansari
- K O Arvidson
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- Tusiata Avia
B
- Annette Baier
- Louisa Alice Baker
- Hinemoana Baker
- Murray Ball
- Philippa Ballantine
- David Ballantyne
- Ellen Wright Blackwell
- Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank
- Serie Barford
- Miriam Barr
- Mary Anne Barker (Lady Barker)
- Sarah Maria Barraud
- Rachel Barrowman
- Blanche Edith Baughan
- James K. Baxter
- Fleur Beale
- Margaret Beames
- Airini Beautrais
- Bernard Beckett
- James Belich
- Ursula Bethell
- Jean Betts
- Graham Billing
- Judith Binney
- Hera Lindsay Bird
- Gavin Bishop
- Arapera Blank
- Paula Boock
- Ivan Bootham
- Jenny Bornholdt
- Avice Maud Bowbyes
- Thomas Bracken
- Charles Brasch
- Errol Brathwaite
- Virginia Braun
- Freda Bream
- Bub Bridger
- Adele Broadbent
- Deidre Brown
- Diane Brown
- Helen Brown
- Riwia Brown
- Harriet Louisa Browne
- Margaret Bullock
- Lindsay Buick
- Dorothy Butler
C
- Dolce Ann Cabot (1862–1943), early newspaper editor
- Christine Cole Catley
- Kate Camp
- Alistair Campbell
- Meg Campbell
- Ken Catran
- Eleanor Catton
- Gordon Challis
- Lynda Chanwai-Earle
- Janet Charman
- Brenda Chawner
- Hannah Rebecca Frances Caverhill
- Catherine Chidgey
- Daphne Clair
- Margaret Clark
- Paul Cleave
- Constance Clyde
- Nellie Euphemia Coad
- Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso
- Hugh Cook
- Kay McKenzie Cooke
- Jennifer Compton
- Sandra Coney
- Sue Copsey
- Judy Corbalis
- Winston Cowie
- Violet May Cottrell
- David Coventry
- James Courage
- Joy Cowley
- Rachael Craw
- Douglas Cresswell
- Fiona Cross
- Barry Crump
- Majella Cullinane
- Jackie Cumming
- Allen Curnow
D
- Dan Davin
- Joan de Hamel
- Stephanie de Montalk
- Pip Desmond
- George E. Dewar
- Jean Devanny
- William Direen
- Lynley Dodd
- Gillian Dobbie
- Alfred Domett
- Robyn Donald
- Joan Druett
- Marilyn Duckworth
- Tessa Duder
- Alan Duff
- Yvonne du Fresne
- Eileen Duggan
- Maurice Duggan
- Kate Duignan
E
- Dorothy Eden
- Lauris Edmond
- Stevan Eldred-Grigg
- Chris Else
- Ellen Elizabeth Ellis
- Riemke Ensing
- Margaret Escott
- Barbara Ewing
F
- Jacqueline Fahey
- Fiona Farrell
- Angie Farrow
- Beryl Fletcher
- Tui Flower
- Mihingarangi Forbes
- Margot Forde
- Michelanne Forster
- Dorothy Fowler
- Janet Frame
- Ruth France
- Margaret Fraser
- Anne French
- Catherine Fulton
G
- Abby Gaines
- Rhian Gallagher
- Maurice Gee
- Elizabeth Anne Gard'ner
- Frances Shayle George
- Golriz Ghahraman
- Ivy Gibbs
- Ruth Gilbert
- Olivia Aroha Giles
- Betty Gilderdale
- Esther Glen
- Denis Glover
- Brannavan Gnanalingam
- Charlotte Godley
- Alfred Augustus Grace
- Patricia Grace
- Grace Winifred Green
- Paula Green
- H. W. Gretton
- Charlotte Grimshaw
- Edith Searle Grossmann
- Kirsty Gunn
- John Guthrie (John Brodie)
H
- Mandy Hager
- David Hair
- Bernadette Hall
- Pip Hall
- Roger Hall
- J. H. Haslam
- Jane Elizabeth Harris
- Kathleen Hawkins
- Catherine Hay
- Karyn Hay
- Joel Hayward
- Helen Heath
- Christina Henderson
- Ellen Anne Hewett
- Mary St Domitille Hickey
- Sarah Higgins
- Eva Hill
- Lucy Hockings
- Liddy Holloway
- Janet Holmes
- Lynley Hood
- Philippa Howden-Chapman
- M. H. Holcroft
- Edith Howes
- Keri Hulme
- Des Hunt
- Sam Hunt
- Rex Hunter
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- Robin Hyde
- Prue Hyman
I
J
- Anna Jackson
- Annamarie Jagose
- Florence James
- Lynn Jenner
- Alexa Johnston
- Andrew Johnston
- Christine Johnston
- Stephanie Johnson
- Lloyd Jones
- Tim Jones
- V. M. Jones
- M. K. Joseph
- Sherryl Jordan
- Andrea Jutson
K
- Keri Kaa
- Amy Kane
- Merata Kawharu
- Lindy Kelly
- Elizabeth Kelso
- Anne Kennedy
- Alice Annie Kenny
- Angela Kepler
- Bob Kerr
- Suzi Kerr
- Fiona Kidman
- Michael King
- Rachael King
- Russell Kirkpatrick
- Elizabeth Knox
- Shonagh Koea
- Saradha Koirala
L
- Sarah Laing
- Annabel Langbein
- Eve Langley
- Jack Lasenby
- John A. Lee
- Michele Leggott
- June Margaret Litman
- Elsie Locke
- Terry Locke
- Robert Lord
- Helen Lowe
- Brigid Lowry
- Edith Lyttleton
M
- Charlotte Macdonald
- Rebecca Macfie
- Catherine Julia Mackay
- Jessie Mackay
- Anna Mackenzie
- Hester Maclean
- Margaret Mahy
- Jane Mander
- Bill Manhire
- Frederick Edward Maning
- Phillip Mann
- Emilie Monson Malcolm
- Clare Mallory
- Katherine Mansfield
- Juliet Marillier
- Janice Marriott
- Ngaio Marsh
- Selina Tusitala Marsh
- Owen Marshall
- Mary Ann Martin
- Bruce Mason
- Kāterina Mataira
- Sarah Louise Mathew
- Peta Mathias
- Tina Matthews
- Gill Matthewson
- Muriel Wallace May
- Ged Maybury
- Cath Mayo
- Rachel McAlpine
- Mary McCallum
- Anthony McCarten
- Sue McCauley
- Lyn McConchie
- Carolyn McCurdie
- Jill McDonald
- Shona McFarlane
- Greg McGee
- Rosemary McLeod
- Linda McNabb
- James McNeish
- Cilla McQueen
- Courtney Sina Meredith
- Richard Meros
- Elizabeth Messenger
- Kyle Mewburn
- Miriam Meyerhoff
- Ian Middleton
- O. E. Middleton
- Karlo Mila
- Antonija Mitrović
- Tze Ming Mok
- Pérrine Moncrieff
- Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
- Geoff Moon
- Ronald Hugh Morrieson
- Paula Morris
- Michael J T Morrissey
- Elsie K. Morton
- John Mulgan
- Shirley Murray
- Margaret Mutu
N
O
P
- Makereti Papakura
- Ruth Park
- Lorae Parry
- Jenny Pattrick
- Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan
- Isabel Peacocke
- Bill Pearson
- Nicky Pellegrino
- Emily Perkins
- Dianne Ruth Pettis
- April Phillips
- Vivienne Plumb
- Leonie Pihama
- Mark Pirie
- Robert J. Pope
- Rebecca Priestley
- Erenora Puketapu-Hetet
- Bruce Purchase
Q
R
- Beverley Randell
- Charlotte Randall
- Jo Randerson
- Lizzie Frost Rattray
- Gloria Jasmine Rawlinson
- Annie Lee Rees
- Rosemary Frances Rees
- Amber Reeves
- William Pember Reeves
- Sue Reidy
- Mary Richmond
- Paddy Richardson
- Lauren Kim Roche
- Violet Augusta Roche
- Hilda Rollett
- Joan Rosier-Jones
- Tania Roxborogh
S
- Ben Sanders
- Elspeth Sandys
- Frank Sargeson
- Duncan Sarkies
- Fiona Samuel
- Elspeth Sandys
- Nelle Scanlan
- Dick Scott
- Mary Edith Scott
- Mary-anne Scott
- Robyn Scott
- Rosie Scott
- Maurice Shadbolt
- Tina Shaw
- Helen Lilian Shaw
- Keith Sinclair
- Nalini Singh
- Anna Smaill
- Elizabeth Smither
- Laura Solomon
- Eileen Louise Soper
- C. K. Stead
- Mamari Stephens
- Adela Blanche Stewart
- Olga Stringfellow
- Jacqui Sturm
- Laura Jane Suisted
- Essie Summers
- Barbara Sumner-Burstyn
- Vanda Symon
- Melinda Szymanik
T
- Tamairangi
- Leilani Tamu
- Anna Taylor
- Chad Taylor
- Grace Taylor
- Renee Taylor
- Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
- Philip Temple
- Margaret Tennant
- Ngaire Thomas
- Kirsten Moana Thompson
- Mervyn Thompson
- Mona Innis Tracy
- Jill Trevelyan
- Brian Turner
- Hone Tuwhare
V
W
- Dorothy Wall
- Louise Wallace
- Marilyn Waring
- Joy Watson
- Kristina Webb
- Ian Wedde
- Peter Wells
- Albert Wendt
- Joyce West
- Lydia Wevers
- Dorothy Mary Neal White
- Emily Louisa Merielina White
- Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
- Damien Wilkins
- Guthrie Wilson
- Helen Wilson
- Annabelle White
- Alison Wong
- Elizabeth Wong
- Susan Wood
- Alice Woodhouse
- Sue Wootton
- Anne Eyre Worboys
- Niel Wright