List of Iranian women writers

A

• Ahou Alagha, poet, translator, and filmmaker
• Masoumeh Abad, activist, politician, and non-fiction author
• Janet Afary, feminist, non-fiction writer, now in the United States
• Pegah Ahmadi, poet, critic, translator
• Mahshid Amirshahi, novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
• Jaleh Amouzgar, linguist, anthropologist, academic
• Akram Monfared Arya, pilot, poet, short story writer, artist, now living in Sweden, writes in Persian, Swedish and English
• Lady Amin, mystic, author of works on Islamic sciences
• Mahshid Amirshahi, novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
• Noushafarin Ansari, librarian, educator, journalist
• Mastoureh Ardalan, Kurdish poet, philosopher, historian
• Mina Assadi, poet, journalist, living in Sweden
• Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi, feminist, literary historian
• Ghazaleh Alizadeh, writer, poet

  B

• Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, film director, screenwriter
• Najmieh Batmanglij, Iranian-American cookbook writer
• Simin Behbahani, acclaimed poet
• Niloofar Beyzaie, playwright, theatre director, living in German

  D

• Simin Daneshvar, acclaimed early female novelist, short story writer, translator, educator
• Soraya Darabi, journalist, trade union activist
• Sahar Delijani, widely translated novelist, author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree, living between the United States and Italy
• Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, feminist, journalist
• Firoozeh Dumas, Iranian-American memoirist, humorous writer, author of Funny in Farsi

  E

• Shirin Ebadi, Nobel peace prize winner, human rights activist, non-fiction writer
• Amanda Enayati, columnist, communication strategist
• Camelia Entekhabifard, poet, journalist, memoirist, living in the United States
• Parvin E'tesami, acclaimed classical poet, essayist
• Mansoureh Ettehadieh, historian, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist

  F

• Forough Farrokhzad, influential poet, film director, poetry translated into several languages including English
• Pooran Farrokhzad, since the 1990s: poet, playwright, encyclopaedist
• Nazila Fathi, author and Iranian correspondent for The New York Times

  G

• Zarah Ghahramani, Iranian-born Australian memoirist, author of My Life as a Traitor
• Shusha Guppy, singer, memoirist, fairy tale writer, critic, journal editor, moved to London

  H

• Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi, best selling novelist
• Roya Hakakian, Iranian-American poet, journalist, memoirist, essayist, television producer
• Maryam Heydarzadeh, poet, lyricist
• Maryam Hooleh, poet, novelist, filmmaker

  J

• Rosa Jamali, poet, playwright, translator

  K

• Sheema Kalbasi, widely translated poet, human rights activist, living in the United States
• Mehrangiz Kar, women's rights activist, essayist, author of Crossing the Red Line
• Leila Kasra, poet, lyricist
• Fatemeh Keshavarz, poet, educator, literary historian, living in the United States
• Porochista Khakpour, Iranian-American novelist, essayist

  L

• Shahla Lahiji, feminist, translator, publisher

  M

• Mahsati, early Persian poet writing in quatrains
• Marsha Mehran, widely translated novelist, author of Pomegranate Soup
• Mozhgan Babamarandi is an eminent Iranian writer best known for children and young adult fiction,Since 1996
• Farzaneh Milani, Iranian-American educator, since early 1990s: non-fiction writer, poet
• Azadeh Moaveni, Iranian-American journalist, memoirist, author of Lipstick Jihad, now living in London
• Roza Montazemi, popular cookbook writer
• Minoo Moshiri, essayist, translator and journalist
• Granaz Moussavi, Iranian-Australian poet, screenwriter, film director

  N

• Azar Nafisi, feminist, memoirist, literary critic, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Afsaneh Najmabadi, Iranian-American historian, educator, literary historian, author of The Story of the Daughters of Quchan
• Marina Nemat, memoirist

  O

• Ghazal Omid, memoirist, author of A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces

  P

• Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
• Zoya Pirzad, Iranian-Armenian novelist, works translated into several languages

  S

• Sepideh Shamlou, writer
• Shadi Sadr, lawyer, journalist, women's rights activist
• Tahereh Saffarzadeh, poet, non-fiction writer, translator, educator
• Parinoush Saniee, since 2003, novelist, author of the widely translated The Book of Fate
• Homa Sarshar, Iranian-American author, activist, feminist and journalist
• Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-born French novelist, illustrator, children's writer
• Mahasti Shahrokhi, novelist, poet
• Siba Shakib, novelist, filmmaker, author of the widely translated Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep
• Shahla Sherkat, journalist, feminist writer, journal publisher
• Zandokht Shirazi, feminist, poet, educator
• Marzieh Sotoudeh, Iranian-Canadian short story writer, translator

  T

• Táhirih, pseudonym of Fatimah Baraghani, poet, theologian
• Goli Taraghi, novelist, short story writer
• Niloufar Talebi, memoirist, nonfiction writer, literary translator, multidisciplinary artist

  V

• Lobat Vala, poet, feminist, now living in London

  Y

• Chista Yasrebi, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher
• Elham Yaghoubian, since the 1990s: novelist, living in the United States