List of Argentine women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Argentina or whose writings are closely associated with this country.A
- Florencia Abbate, novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, journalist
- Margarita Abella Caprile, poet, novelist, short story writer, travel writer, journalist
- Agustina Andrade, poet
- Judith Astelarra, sociologist specializing in gender studies
- Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, surrealist poet, short story writer, critic, translator
B
- Ana Baron, writer, journalist
- Emma de la Barra, best selling novelist
- Emma Barrandeguy, poet, novelist, journalist, translator
- Diana Bellessi, poet, essayist
- Juana Bignozzi, translator, journalist, poet
- Poldy Bird, poet, essayist, columnist
- Liliana Bodoc, novelist
- Ivonne Bordelois, poet, essayist, linguist
- Alicia Borinsky,, novelist, poet, critic
- Norah Borges, artist, illustrator, poet, journalist
- Elsa Bornemann, children's writer
- Herminia Brumana, novelist, playwright, journalist
- Silvina Bullrich, best selling novelist, translator, screenwriter, critic
- Delfina Bunge, poet, short story writer, essayist
C
- Susana Calandrelli, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, textbook writer
- Estela Canto, novelist, biographer, journalist, translator
- María Luisa Carnelli, poet, journalist
- Albertina Carri, actress, screenwriter, film director
- Nené Cascallar, playwright for radio and television, screenwriter
- Flavia Company, novelist, poet
- Celia Correas de Zapata, poet, non-fiction writer, historian, educator
- Maria Sonia Cristoff, novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer
- Maria Renee Cura, indologist, non-fiction writer
D
- Emma de Cartosio, writer, poet, storyteller, essayist
- Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, poet, columnist, short story writer, biographer
E
- Ada María Elflein, poet, columnist, translator, teacher
- Mariana Enríquez, journalist, novelist, short story writer
F
- Paloma Fabrykant, artist, journalist, non-fiction writer, mixed martial arts expert
- Manuela Fingueret, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist
- Luisa Futoransky, poet, novelist, journalist, scholar
G
- Sara Gallardo, novelist, short story writer
- Griselda Gambaro, novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist, young adult writer
- Betina Gonzalez, novelist, short story writer
- Viviana Gorbato, journalist, writer, professor
- Angélica Gorodischer, short story writer, novelist
- Juana Manuela Gorriti, novelist, short story writer, politician
- Beatriz Guido, novelist, screenwriter
H
- Liliana Heker, short story writer, novelist, essayist
I
- Marcela Iacub, French-language novelist, essayist
- Sylvia Iparraguirre, novelist, human rights activist
K
- Nelly Kaplan, French-language novelist, essayist, script writer
- Alicia Kozameh, novelist, short story writer, poet
L
- Ana Emilia Lahitte, poet, playwright, essayist, journalist
- Norah Lange, poet, novelist, autobiographer
- Marta Lynch, novelist, short story writer
- Pilar de Lusarreta, journalist, short story writer, essayist, critic
M
- Eduarda Mansilla, novelist, playwright, essayist, music critic, composer
- Daisy May Queen, radio and television presenter, writer
- Rosita Melo, pianist, composer, songwriter, poet
- Martha Mercader, politician, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's writer
- Tununa Mercado, novelist, short story writer, essayist
- Liliana Díaz Mindurry, poet, novelist, short story writer
- Susana Molinari Leguizamón, from 1939, poet
- Graciela Montes, children's writer, translator
- Ana Gloria Moya, novelist
- Cristina Mucci, writer, journalist
N
- María Negroni, poet, essayist, novelist, translator
O
- Clara Obligado, novelist, short story writer
- Silvina Ocampo, poet, short story writer, playwright
- Victoria Ocampo, magazine publisher, critic, journalist, essayist, autobiographer, translator
- María Rosa Oliver, short story writer, essayist, critic, translator
- Olga Orozco, poet, journalist
- Elvira Orphée, novelist, short story writer
P
- Alicia Partnoy, poet, translator, human rights activist
- Josefina Passadori, writer, educator
- Clara Passafari, anthropologist, non-fiction writer, poet
- Luisa Peluffo, journalist, poet, novelist
- Alejandra Pizarnik, poet, journalist
- Lucía Puenzo, novelist, film director
- Adriana Puiggrós, non-fiction writer, politician, educator
R
- Patricia Ratto, writer, teacher
- Petrona Rosende, poet, journalist
S
- María Sáez de Vernet, chronicler of Argentine settlement of the Falkland Islands
- Matilde Sánchez, journalist, writer, and translator
- Beatriz Sarlo, critic, journal editor, non-fiction writer
- Samanta Schweblin, novelist, short story writer
- Susy Shock, actress, writer, singer
- Ana María Shua, novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, children's writer
- Alicia Steimberg, novelist, short story writer, translator
- Alfonsina Storni, poet, playwright
T
- María Dhialma Tiberti, novelist, poet
- Marta Traba, art critic, novelist
U
- Hebe Uhart, novelist, short story writer
V
- Luisa Valenzuela, novelist, short story writer, essayist
- Aurora Venturini, novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, translator
- Esther Vilar, German-language non-fiction writer, playwright
- Paulina Vinderman, poet, translator
W
- Paula Wajsman, psychologist, poet, translator, researcher
- María Elena Walsh, children's writer, poet, novelist, playwright, musician
- Susana, Lady Walton, non-fiction writer in English
- Ema Wolf, writer, journalist
Y
- Laura Yasán, poet