List of Angolan writers

This is a list of Angolan writers, ordered alphabetically by surname.


 * Henrique Abranches (1932–2004), poet
 * Antero Abreu (1927–2017), poet
 * José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960), Portuguese journalist and fiction writer
 * Fernando Costa Andrade (1936–2009), poet
 * Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990), poet and politician
 * Mario António (1934–1989), poet
 * Gabriela Antunes (1937–2004), folklore
 * Arlindo Barbeitos (born 1940), poet
 * Geraldo Bessa Victor (1917–1985), poet
 * Dulce Braga (born 1958), autobiographer
 * António Cardoso (1933–2006), short story writer
 * Mendes de Carvalho, writing as Uanhenga Xitu, politician and Africanist writer in Portuguese and Kimbundu
 * Lisa Castel (born 1955), writer and journalist
 * Alberto Graves Chakussanga (1978–2010), murdered Angolan radio journalist
 * Maria João Chipalavela
 * Tomaz Vieira da Cruz (1900–1960), poet
 * Viriato da Cruz (1928–1973), poet
 * Alexandre Dáskalos (born 1924), poet
 * Maria Alexandre Dáskalos (born 1957)
 * Raul David (1918–2005?)
 * Lopito Feijóo (born 1963), poet
 * Isabel Ferreira (born 1958)
 * Ernesto Lara Filho (1932–1977), poet
 * Domingos Florentino (born 1953)
 * Henrique Guerra (born 1937), short story writer
 * Duque Kate Hama (born 1963)
 * António Jacinto (1924–1991), poet and political activist
 * Sousa Jamba (born 1966), Anglophone journalist and novelist
 * Kandjila (born 1973)
 * Luis Kandjimbo (born 1960), essayist and critic
 * Dia Kassembe (born 1946), Francophone writer and novelist
 * Alda Lara (1930–1962), poet
 * Manuel de Santos Lima (born 1935)
 * Amélia da Lomba (born 1961), writer and journalist
 * Reis Luís, or "Mbwanga" (born 1968), Portuguese-language novelist
 * João Maimona (born 1955), poet and essayist
 * Rafael Marques (born 1971), journalist
 * André Massaki (1923–1996), politician and writer
 * Joaqim Dias Cordeiro da Matta (1857–1894), folklorist
 * Cikakata Mbalundu (Aníbal Simões) (born 1955)
 * Manuel Rui Monteiro (born 1941), poet
 * Agostinho Neto (1922–1979), poet
 * Frederico Ningi (born 1959), poet, journalist
 * Ondjaki (born 1977), poet, novelist and dramatist
 * Ernesto Cochat Osório (1917–2002), doctor and poet
 * Pepetela, pen-name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941), writer of fiction
 * José de Fontes Pereira (1838–1891), early Angolan journalist
 * Wanda Ramos (1948–1998)
 * Inácio Rebelo de Andrade (born 1935)
 * Oscar Ribas (1909–2004), novelist
 * Alcides Sakala Simões (born 1953)
 * Ana de Santana (born 1960)
 * Aires de Almeida Santos
 * Arnaldo Santos (born 1936), poet
 * Maria Perpétua Candeias da Silva, teacher and short story writer
 * Paula Tavares (born 1952), poet
 * Timóteo Ulika (Cornélio Caley)
 * José Luandino Vieira (born 1935), short-story writer and novelist
 * Uanhenga Xitu (1924–2014), writer and nationalist
 * Mota Yekenha (born 1962)