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
 * 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