List of Croatian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Croatia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A

 * Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), children's writer

B

 * Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska (1870–1946), feminist, pedagogic writer, ethnographer
 * Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani (1710–1784), early poet
 * Anica Bošković (1714–1804), early poet and song writer

C

 * Aloïse de Carlowitz (1797 – 1863) was a translator and author who was born in Rijeka
 * Nives Celsius (born 1981), columnist

D

 * Slavenka Drakulić (born 1949), novelist, essayist, and non-fiction writer
 * Daša Drndić (1946–2018), novelist

G

 * Stanka Gjurić (born 1956), poet and lyric essayist

I

 * Rada Iveković (born 1945), non-fiction writers
 * Nada Iveljić (1931–2009), children's writer

J

 * Marija Jambrišak (1847–1937), educator, writer, magazine editor
 * Dragojla Jarnević (1813–1875), poet
 * Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873–1957), journalist, novelist and dramatist

K

 * Lada Kaštelan (born 1961), dramatist, screenwriter
 * Nada Klaić (1920–1988), historian
 * Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990), novelist, autobiographer
 * Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018), novelist

M

 * Julijana Matanović (born 1959), short story writer and novelist

R

 * Nasta Rojc (1883–1964), autobiographer, letter writer, painter

Š

 * Sunčana Škrinjarić (1931–2004), writer, poet and journalist
 * Marina Šur Puhlovski, short story and travel writer, novelist and essayist

T

 * Jagoda Truhelka (1864–1957), novelist and pedagogist

U

 * Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), novelist

Z

 * Katarina Zrinska (c. 1625–1673), noblewoman, poet
 * Cvijeta Zuzorić (1552–1648), lyric poet