List of Polish women writers

A

• Miriam Akavia, Polish-born Israeli novelist, translator
• Lisa Appignanesi, Polish-born English-language novelist, non-fiction writer, editor, columnist
• Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, poet, playwright, journalist

  B

• Rosa Bailly, teacher, activist, translator, journalist history and travel writer and poet
• Lidia Bajkowska, writer of children’s educational music books
• Jadwiga Barańska, actress, screenwriter
• Ewa Białołęcka, novelist, short story writer
• Agnieszka Biedrzycka, contemporary historian, researcher and editor of the Polish Biographical Dictionary
• Irena Bobowska, journalist, editor, poet, resistance worker
• Barbara Bojarska, contemporary historian, works on the history of Pomerania
• Maria Boniecka, editor, writer, teacher, resistance fighter
• Anna Brzezińska,, historian, fantasy author

  C

• Zofia Chądzyńska, novelist, translator
• Joanna Chmielewska, widely translated bestselling crime fiction novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer, screenwriter
• Sylwia Chutnik, novelist
• Izabela Czartoryska, salonist, diarist, memoirist

  D

• Maria Dąbrowska, novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright
• Janina Domanska, Polish-American children's writer, writing in English
• Gusta Dawidson Draenger, diarist
• Kinga Dunin, novelist, non-fiction writer, feminist
• Elżbieta Drużbacka, poet
• Wanda Dynowska, theosophist, non-fiction writer, publisher in India, translator of Polish poetry into English

  F

• Ida Fink, Polish-Israeli writer, Polish-language works on the Holocaust
• Wirydianna Fiszerowa, noblewoman, French-language memoirist

  G

• Zuzanna Ginczanka, poet, translator
• Agnieszka Graff, non-fiction writer, essayist, columnist, feminist
• Manuela Gretkowska, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, politician
• Katarzyna Grochola, best selling novelist, short story writer, playwright
• Wioletta Grzegorzewska, poet, some works translated into English

  H

• Klementyna Hoffmanowa, children's author, translator

  I

• Maria Ilnicka, poet, novelist, translator, journalist
• Bozenna Intrator, Polish-American novelist, poet, playwright, translator, writing in German, Polish and English

  J

• Irena Jurgielewiczowa, children's writer, memoirist

  K

• Anna Kamieńska, children's writer, poet, translator
• Anna Kańtoch, fantasy writer
• Gerda Weissmann Klein, Polish-American writer, works on the Holocaust
• Irena Klepfisz, poet, essayist, feminist writer, translator, writing in Yiddish and English
• Maria Konopnicka, acclaimed poet, novelist, children's writer
• Rachel Korn, poet, writing in Polish and Yiddish
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, historical novelist, memoirist, columnist
• Chana Kowalska, Jewish painter and journalist
• Faustina Kowalska, nun, author of a diary relating her mystic experiences
• Hanna Krall, journalist, historian, works on the war period in Poland
• Katarzyna Krenz, poet, novelist, translator
• Maria Kuncewiczowa, novelist, columnist

  L

• Anna Langfus, Polish-born French-language novelist
• Marija Lastauskienė, novelist, short story writer, often in collaboration with her sister Sofija Pšibiliauskienė, wrote in Polish and Lithuanian
• Henryka Łazowertówna, poet, remembered for her poem written in the Warsaw Ghetto
• Joanna Lech, poet, some works translated into English
• Ewa Lipska, widely translated poet
• Tekla Teresa Łubieńska, poet, playwright and translator from the French and English
• Jadwiga Łuszczewska, poet, novelist

  M

• Wanda Malecka, editor, translator, poet, novelist, newspaper publisher, journalist
• Dorota Masłowska, best selling novelist, playwright
• Grażyna Miller, poet, critic, translator
• Małgorzata Musierowicz, popular children's writer

  N

• Anna Nakwaska, memoirist, novelist, children's author and women's educationalist
• Zofia Nałkowska, acclaimed novelist, playwright
• The Black Pearl

  O

• Eliza Orzeszkowa, acclaimed novelist, playwright, short story writer
• Hanna Ożogowska, novelist, poet, translator

  P

• Magdalena Parys, novelist
• Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, acclaimed poet, playwright
• Tillie S. Pine, Polish-American children's writer
• Halina Poświatowska, significant poet, essayist, autobiographer
• Stanisława Przybyszewska, playwright, writer of acclaimed works on the French revolution
• Sofija Pšibiliauskienė, sister of Marija Lastauskienė, co-authored some of her works

  R

• Małgorzata Rejmer novelist, short story writer
• Maria Rodziewiczówna, important novelist and short story writer of the interwar period
• Chava Rosenfarb, Polish born Yiddish poet, short story writer

  S

• Barbara Sanguszko, poet, translator, moralist and philanthropist
• Magdalena Samozwaniec, satirist
• Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, poet, journalist, television screenwriter
• Kate Simon, Polish-born American travel writer, autobiographer
• Eva Stachniak, Polish-born Canadian novelist, short story writer
• Anna Świrszczyńska, poet, some works translated into English
• Anna Szatkowska, memoirist, wartime experiences written in French
• Małgorzata Szumowska, screenwriter, film director
• Wisława Szymborska, poet, essayist, translation, Nobel Prize in Literature
• Żanna Słoniowska, novelist

  T

• Olga Tokarczuk, poet, popular novelist, short story writer, essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature
• Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator

  W

• Bronisława Wajs, Polish-Romani poet, singer
• Joanna Wajs, poet, critic, translator
• Maria Wirtemberska, salonist, novelist
• Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American children's writer

  Z

• Anna Zahorska, poet, novelist, playwright
• Stefania Zahorska, novelist, historian, non-fiction writer, memoirist
• Maria Julia Zaleska, novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Gabriela Zapolska, prolific novelist, playwright, short story writer, critic, actress
• Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak, acclaimed contemporary poet, regional journalist and social scientist
• Narcyza Żmichowska, pen name Gabryella, novelist, poet, letter writer, feminist
• Rajzel Żychlińsky, Yiddish-language poet