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 (born 1928), film director, screenwriter
• Leilah Assunção (born 1943), significant playwright, actress

B

• Carol Bensimon (born 1982), short story writer, novelist
• Tati Bernardi (born 1979), short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist
• 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
• 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

• Lygia Fagundes Telles (born 1923), 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

L

• Maria Lacerda de Moura (1887–1945), anarchist, journalist, non-fiction writer
• Danuza Leão (born 1933), 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 (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), 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
• 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

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 (born 1919), 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 (born 1937), novelist, short story writer
• Adélia Prado (born 1935), poet, poetry translated into English
• Heloisa Prieto (born 1954), children's literature, novelist, non-fiction writer

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

• 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 (born 1923), 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 (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

See also

• List of women writers
• List of Brazilian writers
• List of Portuguese-language authors