List of Pakistani women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Pakistan or whose writings are closely associated with that country.A
- Umera Ahmad, short story writer, novelist, playwright, author of Pir-e-Kamil
- Annie Ali Khan, Pakistani writer and journalist
- Shaila Abdullah, Pakistani-American short story writer, novelist
- Ishrat Afreen, Pakistani-American poet, women's rights activist, educator
- Moniza Alvi, Pakistani-British poet
- Altaf Fatima, Pakistani novelist
- Afzal Tauseef, writer, columnist and journalist
B
- Fatima Surayya Bajia, novelist, playwright
- Fatima Bhutto, poet, memorist, novelist
- Shahbano Bilgrami, poet, novelist, editor
- Razia Butt, novelist, autobiographer
C
- Zeenat Abdullah Channa,, Short story writer, essayist
D
- Tehmina Durrani, autobiographical novelist, author of the widely translated My Feudal Lord
F
- Bushra Farrukh, poet
- Samira Fazal, playwright, screenwriter
H
- Yasmeen Hameed, since 1988, poet, educator
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-born Pakistani journalist, columnist, non-fiction writer, women's rights activist
- Shahida Hassan, since the mid-1990s, poet
- Zahida Hina, since 1962, essayist, journalist, columnist, short story writer, novelist
- Shahrukh Husain, novelist, non-fiction writer, living in London
- Fahmida Hussain, literary scholar, non-fiction writer
I
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, politician, essayist, autobiographer
- Saba Imtiaz, journalist, author, screenwriter
- Farhat Ishtiaq, novelist, screenwriter, author of Humsafar
J
- Ayesha Jalal, Pakistani-American educator, historian, since 1990: non-fiction writer
K
- Uzma Aslam Khan, Pakistani novelist
- Rukhsana Khan, Pakistani-Canadian children's writer
- Maki Kureishi, poet
L
- Yasmeen Lari, architect, non-fiction writer
M
- Muniba Mazari
- Shazia Mirza Columnist for The Guardian
N
- Kishwar Naheed, poet, feminist
- Badam Natawan,, novelist, prose writer
- Sarwat Nazir, contemporary novelist, playwright, screenwriter, author of Main Abdul Qadir Hoon
- Zehra Nigah, since 1950s, poet, screenwriter
R
- Bushra Rahman, politician, novelist
- Samina Raja, poet, translator, educator
- Fahmida Riaz, poet, translator, feminist
S
- Sehba Sarwar, contemporary novelist, short story writer, author of Black Wings
- Sara Shagufta, poet
- Bina Shah, since 2001, short story writer, novelist, columnist
- Qaisra Shahraz, since 2001, novelist, short story writer, living in Britain
- Parveen Shakir, poet, educator
- Kamila Shamsie, English-language novelist
- Muneeza Shamsie, essayist, anthologist, literary writer
- Bapsi Sidhwa, English-language novelist, living in the United States
- Noorul Huda Shah, playwright, novelist, Short story writer and Dramatist
- Salma Shaheen, poet, writer, researcher and novelist
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- Naseem Thebo,, story writer
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