List of Danish women writers
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This is a list of women writers who were born in Denmark or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
A
- Karen Aabye (1904–1982), journalist, historical novelist
- Jane Aamund (born 1936), novelist, journalist
- Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup (born 1963), works on architecture
- Naja Marie Aidt (born 1963), poet, novelist, short story writer
- Annemette Kure Andersen (born 1962), widely translated poet
- Clara Andersen (1826–1895), playwright and short story writer
- Inga Arvad (1913–1973), journalist
B
- Charlotte Baden (1740–1824), novelist, feminist writer
- Jette Baagøe (born 1946), museum director, botanist, non-fiction writer
- Solvej Balle (born 1962), novelist, poet
- Dorothea Biehl (1731–1788), playwirfht
- Susan Binau (born 1964), motivational writings on illness and dying
- Louise Bjørnsen (1824–1899), novelist and short story writer
- Karen Blixen (1885–1962), novels, memoirs, including Out of Africa
- Sara Blædel (born 1964), crime-fiction novelist
- Cecil Bødker (born 1927), young-adult fiction
- Sophia Brahe (1556–1643), wrote the genealogy of Danish noble families
- Marie Bregendahl (1867–1940), novelist, realistic rural literature
- Suzanne Brøgger (born 1944), novelist (widely translated), journalist
- Friederike Brun (1765–1835), poet, travel writer
- Tine Bryld (1939–2011), novelist
- Julia Butschkow (born 1978), playwright, poet
C
- Inger Christensen (1935–2009), poet, novelist, essayist
- Leonora Christine (1621–1698), writer of memoirs, Denmark's first known woman writer
- Bente Clod (born 1946), poet, novelist, children's writer
D
- Ulla Dahlerup (born 1942), journalist, writer, women's rights activist
- Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976), poet, novelist, short story writer
- Emmy Drachmann (1854–1928), novelist
E
- Elsebeth Egholm (born 1960), best-selling crime-fiction author and TV screenwriter
F
- Astrid Stampe Feddersen (1852–1930), writings in support of women's rights
- Ilia Fibiger (1817–1867), playwright, novelist, also Denmark's first professional nurse
- Mathilde Fibiger (1830–1872), writings in support of women's rights
- Lone Frank (born 1966), journalist, non-fiction writer
- Kirstine Frederiksen (1845–1903), pedagogue, writer, women's rights activist
G
- Emma Gad (1852–1921), playwright and non-fiction writer
- Suzanne Giese (1946–2012), writer, women's rights activist
- Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd (1773–1856), novelist
- Elsa Gress (1919–1988), essayist, novelist, dramatist
- Thomasine Gyllembourg (1773–1856), successful novelist
H
- Bente Hansen (born 1940), writer, editor, women's rights activist
- Kirsten Hastrup (born 1948), anthropologist
- Bettina Hauge (born 1964), anthropologist
- Annette Heick (born 1971), journalist
- Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812–1890), writer of memoirs
- Agnes Henningsen (1868–1962), novelist, short story writer, women's rights activist
- Anne Holm (1922–1998), journalist, children's writer, best known for I Am David
- Hanne-Vibeke Holst (born 1959), journalist, novelist
- Ellen Hørup (1871–1953), journalist, non-fiction writer in support of peace, women's rights
- Annelise Hovmand (born 1924), screenwriter
- Anna Hude (1858–1934), historian
J
- Lis Jacobsen (1882–1961), philologist, runologist, historian
- Kristine Marie Jensen (1858–1923), early cookbook writer
- Thit Jensen (1876–1957), novelist, playwright, short story writer, involved in women's rights
- Erna Juel-Hansen, (1845–1922), novelist, short story writer, feminist and educator
K
- Lene Kaaberbøl (born 1960), children's write, crime fiction for adults
- Janina Katz (1938–2013), Polish-born Danish poet, novelist, children's writer
- Birgithe Kosovic (born 1972), journalist, autobiographical writings on Yugoslavia
L
- Margrethe Lasson (1659–1738), authored Denmark's first novel
- Mette Lisby (born 1968), writer, actress, stand-up comedian, television host, now in the United States
M
- Anne Marie Mangor (1781–1865), early cookbook writer
- Karin Michaëlis (1872–1950), journalist, novelist, children's writer
- Else Holmelund Minarik (1920–2012), U.S. immigrant, author of the Little Bear series of children's books
- Dea Trier Mørch (1941–2001), novelist, author of Winter's Child about women and childbirth
N
- Henriette Nielsen (1815-1900), novelist, playwright
- Lise Nørgaard (born 1917), novelist, screenwriter, author of the TV series Matador
- Marianne Nøhr Larsen (born 1963), anthropologist, writer
O
- Annette K. Olesen (born 1965), screenwriter
- Olga Ravn (born 1986), poet, novelist
- Elise Otté (1818–1903), Anglo-Danish philologist, historian
P
- Louise von Plessen (1725–1799), wrote court memoirs of her time
Q
- Anne Margrethe Qvitzow (1652–1700), poet, translator, memoir writer
R
- Julie Reventlow (1763–1816), salonist, non-fiction writer
- Jytte Rex (born 1942), novelist, writer of works on women's rights
- Ane Riel (born 1971), novelist and winner of the Glass Key award
- Signe Rink (1836–1909), Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist
- Else Roesdahl (born 1942), historian, Viking specialist
S
- Astrid Saalbach (born 1955), playwright, novelist
- Lotte Salling (born 1964), writes short stories for young children
- Bente Scavenius (born 1944), art critic and aythor
- Rikke Schubart (born 1966), novelist, academic writings on film and television
- Anna Louise Stevnhøj (born 1963), non-fiction on children and health
- Hanne Marie Svendsen (born 1933), non-fiction writer, novelist
- Karen Syberg (born 1945), writer, gender researcher, feminist
T
- Pia Tafdrup (born 1952), widely translated poet
- Janne Teller (born 1954), controversial philosophical novelist
- Mette Thomsen (born 1970), novelist
- Magdalene Thoresen (1819–1903), Danish-born Norwegian poet, novelist
- Kirsten Thorup (born 1942), novelist, poet, screenwriter
- Eleonora Tscherning (1817–1890), memoirist, painter
U
- Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621–1698), famous for her autobiography Jammers Minde, considered a classic
V
- Vibeke Vasbo (born 1944), novelist, poet, women's activist and former member of the Danish Lesbian Movement
W
- Dorrit Willumsen (born 1940), poet, novelist, short story writer
- Pauline Worm (1825–1883), writer, poet, schoolteacher, feminist