List of Brazilian women writers

A

• Carine Adler, screenwriter, film director
• Zuleika Alambert, feminist writer, politician
• Sarah Aldridge, pen name of Anyda Marchant, Brazilian-born American lesbian novelist, short story writer
• Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, journalist, actress, theatre director
• Miriam Alves, poet, short story writer
• Maria Adelaide Amaral, playwright, screenwriter, novelist
• Narcisa Amalia, poet, journalist, women's rights activist
• Suzana Amaral, film director, screenwriter
• Leilah Assunção, significant playwright, actress

  B

• Bruna Beber, poet, writer
• Carol Bensimon, short story writer, novelist
• Tati Bernardi, short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist
• Beatriz Francisca de Assis Brandão, poet, literary and theatrical translator
• Eliane Brum, journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer

  C

• Astrid Cabral, acclaimed poet, educator
• Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant, young diarist
• Joyce Cavalccante, novelist, poet, short story writer
• Kátya Chamma, singer, poet
• Marina Colasanti, Italian-born Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, translator
• Cora Coralina, poet, children's writer
• Giselle Cossard French Brazilian Anthropologist
• Ana Cristina Cesar, poet, translator
• Mariana Coelho, essayist, poet, educator, feminist
• Sonia Coutinho, journalist, short story writer, novelist
• Helena Parente Cunha, poet, novelist, short story writer, educator

  D

• Márcia Denser, magazine editor, columnist, short story writer
• Maria José Dupré, popular novelist, author of Éramos Seis

  E

• Conceição Evaristo, novelist, poet, short story writer

  F

• Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist, short story writer
• Francisca Praguer Fróes, physician, feminist, non-fiction writer
• Nísia Floresta, early feminist writer
• Eva Furnari, Italian-born children's writer

  G

• Zélia Gattai, photographer, memoirist, novelist, children's writer
• Ivone Gebara, nun, feminist theologian, religious writer
• Luisa Geisler, short story writer, novelist
• Ruth Guimarães, first Afro=Brazilian author to gain a national audience for novels, short stories, and poetry

  H

• Hilda Hilst, poet, playwright, novelist

  I

• Inez Haynes Irwin, Brazilian-born American novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer, journalist, feminist

  J

• Noemi Jaffe, novelist, educator
• Jaqueline Jesus, psychologist, gay rights activist, non-fiction writer
• Carolina Maria de Jesus, diarist

  L

• Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, journalist, non-fiction writer
• Danuza Leão, columnist, non-fiction writer
• Vange Leonel, singer, journalist, novelist, playwright, feminist
• Elsie Lessa, journalist, novelist
• Henriqueta Lisboa, widely translated poet, essayist, translator
• Clarice Lispector, acclaimed novelist, short story writer, journalist
• Elisa Lispector, novelist
• Júlia Lopes de Almeida, early Brazilian female novelist, short story writer, playwright, feminist
• Lya Luft, novelist, poet, translator

  M

• Ana Maria Machado, children's writer
• Gilka Machado, poet
• Lúcia Machado de Almeida, poet, novelist, children's writer
• Maria Clara Machado, playwright, children's writer
• Olga Maynard, Brazilian-born prolific American non-fiction writer
• Cecília Meireles, acclaimed poet
• Ana Miranda, novelist
• Ana Montenegro, poet, feminist writer, communist writer
• Rose Marie Muraro, sociologist, feminist writer

  N

• Adalgisa Nery, poet, short story writer, journalist, politician

  O

• Marly de Oliveira, prolific poet, educator
• Orlandina de Oliveira, Brazilian-born Mexican sociologist, academic, non-fiction writer

  P

• Elvira Pagã, film actress, writer, singer
• Alina Paim, novelist, children's literature, feminist writer, communist writer
• Pagu, pen name of Patrícia Rehder Galvão, poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, translator
• Paula Parisot, writer
• Nélida Piñon, novelist, short story writer
• Adélia Prado, poet, poetry translated into English
• Heloisa Prieto, children's literature, novelist, non-fiction writer

  Q

• Rachel de Queiroz, journalist, novelist, playwright, non-fiction writer

  R

• Regina Rheda, Brazilian-born American novelist, short story writer, children's writer
• Esmeralda Ribeiro, journalist, novelist
• Maria Firmina dos Reis, novelist, poet

  S

• Carola Saavedra, novelist
• Miêtta Santiago, poet, lawyer, feminist
• Yde Schloenbach Blumenschein, poet, memoirist
• Diná Silveira de Queirós, novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, children's writer
• Alessandra Silvestri-Levy, art patron, non-fiction writer
• Angelina Soares, feminist writer
• Heloneida Studart, novelist, essayist, playwright, columnist, women's rights activist
• Auta de Souza, poet
• Syang, stage name of Simone Dreyer Peres, musician, erotic writer

  T

• Malvina Tavares, anarchist, poet, educator
• Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist, short story writer
• Lourdes Teodoro, Afro-Brazilian poet and literary critic
• Marcia Theophilo, poet, short story writer, essayist, writes in Portuguese, Italian and English
• Wal Torres, sexologist, non-fiction writer

  V

• Luize Valente, novelist, film maker, journalist
• Edla Van Steen, journalist, broadcaster, actress, short story writer, playwright
• Vira Vovk, Ukrainian-born Brazilian poet, novelist, playwright, translator, writing in Ukrainian, German and Portuguese