List of Danish women writers

A

• Karen Aabye, journalist, historical novelist
• Jane Aamund, novelist, journalist
• Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, works on architecture
• Naja Marie Aidt, poet, novelist, short story writer
• Laura Aller, editor and pioneering magazine publisher at Aller
• Annemette Kure Andersen, widely translated poet
• Clara Andersen, playwright and short story writer
• Emilie Andersen, historian and archivist
• Inga Arvad, journalist

  B

• Charlotte Baden, novelist, feminist writer
• Jette Baagøe, museum director, botanist, non-fiction writer
• Solvej Balle, novelist, poet
• Rigmor Stampe Bendix, baroness, writer and philathropist
• Dorothea Biehl, playwright
• Susan Binau, motivational writings on illness and dying
• Louise Bjørnsen, novelist and short story writer
• Karen Blixen, novels, memoirs, including Out of Africa
• Sara Blædel, crime-fiction novelist
• Cecil Bødker, young-adult fiction
• Sophia Brahe, wrote the genealogy of Danish noble families
• Marie Bregendahl, novelist, realistic rural literature
• Suzanne Brøgger, novelist, journalist
• Friederike Brun, poet, travel writer
• Anne Bruun, women's rights activist and editor of Kvinden og Samfundet
• Tine Bryld, novelist
• Julia Butschkow, playwright, poet

  C

• Esther Carstensen, women's rights activist, journal editor
• Inger Christensen, poet, novelist, essayist
• Leonora Christine, writer of memoirs, Denmark's first known woman writer
• Bente Clod, poet, novelist, children's writer

  D

• Ulla Dahlerup, journalist, writer, women's rights activist
• Tove Ditlevsen, poet, novelist, short story writer
• Emmy Drachmann, novelist

  E

• Elsebeth Egholm, best-selling crime-fiction author and TV screenwriter
• Charlotte Eilersgaard, novelist, playwright, women's rights activist
• Merete Erbou Laurent, weaver, textile artist and magazine editor

  F

• Astrid Stampe Feddersen, writings in support of women's rights
• Ilia Fibiger, playwright, novelist, also Denmark's first professional nurse
• Mathilde Fibiger, writings in support of women's rights
• Kate Fleron, journal editor, resistance member
• Lone Frank, journalist, non-fiction writer
• Kirstine Frederiksen, pedagogue, writer, women's rights activist

  G

• Emma Gad, playwright and non-fiction writer
• Suzanne Giese, writer, women's rights activist
• Henny Glarbo, archivist
• Elsa Gress, essayist, novelist, dramatist
• Anna Grue, crime novelist
• Thomasine Gyllembourg, successful novelist

  H

• Marie Hammer, zoologist
• Bente Hansen, writer, editor, women's rights activist
• Kirsten Hastrup, anthropologist
• Bettina Hauge, anthropologist
• Annette Heick, journalist
• Johanne Luise Heiberg, writer of memoirs
• Agnes Henningsen, novelist, short story writer, women's rights activist
• Dagmar Hjort, schoolteacher, writer and women's rights activist
• Anne Holm, journalist, children's writer, best known for I Am David
• Hanne-Vibeke Holst, journalist, novelist
• Ellen Hørup, journalist, non-fiction writer in support of peace, women's rights
• Annelise Hovmand, screenwriter
• Anna Hude, historian

  J

• Lis Jacobsen, philologist, runologist, historian
• Kristine Marie Jensen, early cookbook writer
• Thit Jensen, novelist, playwright, short story writer, involved in women's rights
• Erna Juel-Hansen,, novelist, short story writer, feminist and educator

  K

• Lene Kaaberbøl, children's write, crime fiction for adults
• Janina Katz, Polish-born Danish poet, novelist, children's writer
• Birgithe Kosovic, journalist, autobiographical writings on Yugoslavia

  L

• Margrethe Lasson, authored Denmark's first novel
• Mette Lisby, writer, actress, stand-up comedian, television host, now in the United States

  M

• Anne Marie Mangor, early cookbook writer
• Karin Michaëlis, journalist, novelist, children's writer
• Else Holmelund Minarik, U.S. immigrant, author of the Little Bear series of children's books
• Johanne Meyer, pioneering Danish suffragist, pacifist, journal editor and writer
• Eva Moltesen, Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
• Herdis Møllehave, social worker and novelist
• Dea Trier Mørch, novelist, author of Winter's Child about women and childbirth
• Johanne Münter, writer and women's rights activist

  N

• Bodil Neergaard, estate owner, philanthropist, memoirist
• Henriette Nielsen, novelist, playwright
• Lise Nørgaard, novelist, screenwriter, author of the TV series Matador
• Marianne Nøhr Larsen, anthropologist, writer

  O

• Annette K. Olesen, screenwriter
• Olga Ravn, poet, novelist
• Elise Otté, Anglo-Danish philologist, historian

  P

• Louise von Plessen, wrote court memoirs of her time
• Birgitte Possing, historian, biographer and feminist

  Q

• Anne Margrethe Qvitzow, poet, translator, memoir writer

  R

• Julie Reventlow, salonist, non-fiction writer
• Jytte Rex, novelist, writer of works on women's rights
• Ane Riel, novelist and winner of the Glass Key award
• Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist
• Else Roesdahl, historian, Viking specialist

  S

• Astrid Saalbach, playwright, novelist
• Vibeke Salicath, philanthropist, feminist, politician, editor of the women's journal Kvinden & Samfundet
• Lotte Salling, writes short stories for young children
• Bente Scavenius, art critic and author
• Rikke Schubart, novelist, academic writings on film and television
• Birte Siim, political scientist specializing in gender studies
• Anna Louise Stevnhøj, non-fiction on children and health
• Maria Engelbrecht Stokkenbech, feminist and autobiographer
• Hanne Marie Svendsen, non-fiction writer, novelist
• Karen Syberg, writer, gender researcher, feminist

  T

• Pia Tafdrup, widely translated poet
• Janne Teller, controversial philosophical novelist
• Mette Thomsen, novelist
• Magdalene Thoresen, Danish-born Norwegian poet, novelist
• Kirsten Thorup, novelist, poet, screenwriter
• Eleonora Tscherning, memoirist, painter

  U

• Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, famous for her autobiography Jammers Minde, considered a classic

  V

• Vibeke Vasbo, novelist, poet, women's activist and former member of the Danish Lesbian Movement

  W

• Lise Warburg, textile artist and writer
• Dorrit Willumsen, poet, novelist, short story writer
• Pauline Worm, writer, poet, schoolteacher, feminist