List of Peruvian women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Peru or whose writings are closely associated with that country.A
- María Jesús Alvarado Rivera, novelist, playwright, journalist, women's rights activist
- Marie Arana, Peruvian-American novelist, journalist
B
- Monica Brown , children's book author, literature professor
C
- Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, novelist, essayist
- Aurora Cáceres, novelist, essayist, travel writer, biographer
- Clarinda, pen name of an anonymous poet, author of Discurso en loor de la poesía
F
- Julia Ferrer, poet
G
- Doris Gibson, journalist, magazine publisher
- Teresa González de Fanning, essayist, journalist, feminist writer, women's rights activist
- Juana Manuela Gorriti, Argentine-born Peruvian freedom fighter, novelist, short story writer, newspaper founder
L
- Ana María Llona Málaga, poet
M
- Clorinda Matto de Turner, novelist, biographer, essayist, translator
N
- María Nieves y Bustamante, novelist, short story writer
P
- Angélica Palma, novelist, biographer, journalist
S
- Isabel Sabogal, novelist, poet, translator
V
- Gisela Valcárcel, television host, actress, autobiographer, magazine publisher
- Virginia Vargas, sociologist
- Blanca Varela, widely translated poet
