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## Alphabetical indices

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A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z

## Lists by century

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* 20th-century
* 21st-century

## Lists by genre

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## Lists by language (non-English)

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* Ancient Greek
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* Chichewa
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* German
* Gujarati
* Greek
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Leonese
* Lithuanian
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* Marathi
* Nepali
* Odia
* Pukhto or Pashto
* Persian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Russian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Tamil
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Urdu
* Welsh

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## Lists by ethnicity or nationality

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## Lists of women writers and works

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Main list

* Women writers: (A-L), (M-Z)

By country

* Albanian women writers
* Algerian women writers
* Argentine women writers
* Austrian women writers
* Azerbaijani women writers
* Bangladeshi women writers
* Belgian women writers
* Bolivian women writers
* Bosnia and Herzegovina women writers
* Brazilian women writers
* Bulgarian women writers
* Chilean women writers
* Chinese women writers
* Colombian women writers
* Croatian women writers
* Cuban women writers
* Czech women writers
* Danish women writers
* Dutch women writers
* Ecuadorian women writers
* Egyptian women writers
* Estonian women writers
* Faroese women writers
* Filipino women writers
* Finnish women writers
* French women writers
* German women writers
* Ghanaian women writers
* Greek women writers
* Guatemalan women writers
* Guyanese women writers
* Hungarian women writers
* Icelandic women writers
* Indian women writers
* Indonesian women writers
* Iranian women writers
* Irish women writers
* Italian women writers
* Ivorian women writers
* Japanese women writers
* Jamaican women writers
* Kenyan women writers
* Korean women writers
* Latvian women writers
* Lebanese women writers
* Lithuanian women writers
* Luxembourg women writers
* Macedonian women writers
* Malaysian women writers
* Mexican women writers
* Moroccan women writers
* New Zealand women writers
* Nicaraguan women writers
* Nigerian women writers
* Norwegian women writers
* Pakistani women writers
* Panamanian women writers
* Paraguayan women writers
* Peruvian women writers
* Polish women writers
* Portuguese women writers
* Puerto Rican women writers
* Romanian women writers
* Russian women writers
* Senegalese women writers
* Serbian women writers
* Slovak women writers
* Slovenian women writers
* South African women writers
* Spanish women writers
* Swedish women writers
* Swiss women writers
* Trinidad and Tobago women writers
* Tunisian women writers
* Turkish women writers
* Ugandan women writers
* Ukrainian women writers
* Uruguayan women writers
* Welsh women writers
* Zimbabwean women writers

Other lists of women writers

* Women comics creators
* Women cookbook writers
* Early-modern British women novelists
* Early-modern British women playwrights
* Early-modern British women poets
* Women electronic writers
* Women experimental writers
* Women detective/mystery writers
* Women Nobel laureates
* Women poets
* Modernist women writers
* Women printers/publishers before 1800
* Women rhetoricians
* Women science fiction authors
* Biographical dictionaries of women writers in English
* Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

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## Lists by publisher

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* List of Alfred A. Knopf authors
* List of Minerva Press authors

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## See also

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* Lists of books
* List of literary awards

## External links

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* "A Celebration of Women Writers". UPenn Digital Library.
* "Authors on Goodreads". Goodreads.
* "Poets & Writers Directory." Poets & Writers
* "Authors A-Z." The Guardian
* "Browse By Author." Project Gutenberg

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* Afrikaans
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* Arabic
* Armenian
* Assamese
* Belarusian
* Bengali
* Bosnian
* Bulgarian
* Chinese
* Catalan
* Canadian
* Croatian
* Danish
* Dutch
* English
* French
* German
* Greek (Ancient)
* Gujarati
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Icelandic
* Indonesian
* Irish
* Italian
* Japanese
* Kannada
* Kashmiri
* Konkani
* Latin
* Maithili
* Malaysian
* Malayalam
* Maltese
* Manipuri
* Marathi
* Nepali
* Oriya
* Pashto
* Pennsylvania Dutch
* Persian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Punjabi
* Rajasthani
* Romanian
* Russian
* Sanskrit
* Scottish
* Sindhi
* Slovak
* Slovenian
* Sorbian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Tamil
* Telugu
* Turkic
* Ukrainian
* Urdu
* Uzbek
* Welsh

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* Nigerian
* Ottoman
* Pakistani
* Peruvian
* Philippine
* Romani
* Romanian
* South African
* Sudanese
* Swedish
* Swiss
* Turkish

By type|

* Anarchist
* Feminist
* Lyric
* Military
* Modernist
* National
* Performance
* Speculative
* Surrealist
* War
* Women (UK early-modern)

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