List of Dutch women writers

This is a list of women writers born in the Netherlands, or whose writings are closely associated with it.

A

 * Jo van Ammers-Küller (1884–1966), interwar novelist and non-fiction writer
 * Threes Anna (born 1959), novelist, live performance producer and film director

B

 * Maria Barnas (born 1973), novelist, poet and essayist
 * Marjolein Bastin (born 1943), children's writer and illustrator
 * Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), prioress and author of early Dutch prose work Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen (Seven Ways of Holy Love)
 * Thea Beckman (1923–2004), children's writer
 * Nel Benschop (1918–2005), poet
 * Carli Biessels (1936–2016), children's writer
 * Anna Blaman (1905–1960), poet and novelist
 * Marion Bloem (born 1952), Indo (Dutch/East Indian) novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer
 * Louise Sophie Blussé (1801–1896), non-fiction writer
 * Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886), novelist
 * Anneke Brassinga (born 1948), poet, prose writer and translator
 * Til Brugman (1888–1958), poet, novelist and translator
 * Andreas Burnier (1931–2002), poet, novelist and active feminist

C

 * Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), correspondent, novelist and playwright writing in French
 * Willy Corsari (1897–1998), novelist, actress, comédienne and composer

D

 * Aagje Deken (1741–1804), poet and correspondent
 * Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), novelist; author of The Ten Thousand Things
 * Thea Doelwijt (born 1938), journalist, novelist and playwright
 * Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), journalist and novelist
 * Tonke Dragt (born 1930), children's writer and illustrator; author of De brief voor de Koning (Letter for the King)
 * Jessica Durlacher (born 1961), critic, columnist and novelist

E

 * Anna Enquist (born 1945), poet and novelist
 * Henrica van Erp (c. 1480 – 1548), abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle

F

 * Anne Frank (1929–1945), author of The Diary of a Young Girl and Holocaust victim

G

 * Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997), poet
 * Hermine de Graaf (1951–2013), fiction writer
 * Els de Groen (born 1949), politician, novelist and non-fiction writer
 * Wies van Groningen (née Louise Metaal) (1929–2022), Moluccan Dutch writer and story collector

H

 * Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998 onwards), historian of gender studies
 * Hella Haasse (1918–2011), novelist with some works set in the East Indies
 * Judith Herzberg (born 1934), poet and playwright
 * Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939), children's writer in West Frisian and Dutch
 * Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), diarist and correspondent during the German occupation of Amsterdam
 * Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), poet and composer
 * Marjolijn Hof (born 1956), novelist with some works translated into English
 * Xaviera Hollander (born 1943), call girl and memoirist
 * Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1781–1846), feminist writer
 * Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902), feminist activist and columnist

I

 * Marith Iedema (born 1989), journalist and documentarian

K

 * Marie Kessels (born 1954), poet and prose writer
 * Yvonne Keuls (born 1931), Indo writer and novelist
 * Yvonne Kroonenberg (born 1950), psychologist, columnist and author of works about men
 * Mina Kruseman (1839–1922), feminist and non-fiction writer
 * Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989), historical writer
 * Emy Koopman (born 1985), video and print journalist, bibliotherapy researcher and scholar

L

 * Astrid Lampe (born 1955), poet and actress
 * Katharyne Lescailje (1649–1711), poet and translator
 * Noni Lichtveld (1929–2017), children's writer and illustrator based in Suriname
 * Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), memoirist and translator
 * Tessa de Loo (born 1946), novelist
 * Emilie Luzac (1748–1788), correspondent

M

 * Cissy van Marxveldt (1889–1948), children's writer
 * Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma (1918–2001), columnist and children's writer
 * Clara Meijers (1885–1964), feminist writer
 * Vonne van der Meer (born 1952), fiction writer and playwright
 * Doeschka Meijsing (1947–2012), novelist
 * Hanny Michaelis (1922–2007), poet
 * Marga Minco (1920–2023), journalist and novelist
 * Marente de Moor (born 1972), novelist and columnist
 * Mieke Mosmuller (born 1951), fiction and non-fiction writer in Dutch and German
 * Mirjam Mous (born 1963), author of children's literature
 * Marian Mudder (born 1958), columnist and non-fiction writer
 * Charlotte Mutsaers (born 1942), prose writer and essayist

N

 * Saskia Noort (born 1967), crime-fiction writer and journalist

P

 * Connie Palmen (born 1955), novelist
 * Marianne Philips (1886–1951), psychological novelist and politician
 * Ethel Portnoy (1927–2004), essayist, columnist and fiction writer in English
 * Maria Pypelinckx (1538–1608), correspondent

Q

 * Catharina Questiers (1631–1669), poet and playwright

R

 * Veronique Renard (born 1965), trans woman memoirist and non-fiction writer in English
 * Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952), poet, playwright and biographer
 * Astrid Roemer (born 1947), Suriname novelist and poet living in the Netherlands
 * Hannie Rouweler (born 1951), Dutch poet
 * Heleen van Royen (born 1965), novelist and columnist
 * Renate Rubinstein (1929–1990), journalist, columnist and non-fiction writer
 * Helga Ruebsamen (1934–2016), columnist and novelist
 * Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990), children's writer

S

 * Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000), historical works on Ancient Greece and Persia
 * Annet Schaap (born 1965), children's literature
 * Margo Scharten-Antink (1868–1957), poet and novelist
 * Mineke Schipper (born 1938), novelist and non-fiction writer on women's literature
 * Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995), children's writer and television screenwriter
 * Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678), German-born poet with works in Latin in defence of female education
 * Anja Sicking (born 1965), fiction writer
 * Hilda van Stockum (1908–2006), English-language children's writer

T

 * Marianne Thieme (born 1972), politician and writer on animals rights
 * Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723–1786), poet and translator

U

 * Mellie Uyldert (1908–2009), astrologer and esoteric writer

V

 * M. Vasalis (1909–1998), poet and psychiatrist
 * Cornelia van der Veer (1639–1704), poet
 * Jacoba van Velde (1903–1985), novelist author of De grote zaal
 * Stephanie Vetter (1884–1974), fiction writer
 * Anna Visscher (1584–1651), poet and translator
 * Simone van der Vlugt (born 1966), historical and young-adult novelist
 * Ida Vos (1931–2006), children's writer
 * Beb Vuyk (1905–1991), Indo fiction writer

W

 * Lulu Wang (born 1960), Chinese-born novelist writing in Dutch
 * Elly de Waard (born 1940), poet and music critic
 * Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760–1830), poet
 * Betje Wolff (1738–1804), epistolary novelist of works co-authored with Aagje Deken

Z

 * Marie van Zeggelen (1870–1957), novelist and children's writer
 * Annejet van der Zijl (born 1962), novelist and biographer