List of Dutch women writers

A

• Jo van Ammers-Küller, successful interwar novelist, non-fiction writer
• Threes Anna, novelist, live performance producer, film director

  B

• Maria Barnas, novelist, poet, essayist
• Marjolein Bastin, children's writer, illustrator
• Beatrice of Nazareth, prioress, author of early Dutch prose work Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen
• Thea Beckman, children's writer
• Nel Benschop, best-selling poet
• Carli Biessels, writer of children's literature
• Anna Blaman, poet, novelist
• Marion Bloem, Indo novelist, non-fiction writer, documentary film producer
• Louise Sophie Blussé, non-fiction writer
• Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, novelist
• Anneke Brassinga, poet, prose writer, translator
• Til Brugman, poet, novelist, translator
• Andreas Burnier, poet, novelist, feminist

  C

• Isabelle de Charrière, letter-writer, novelist, playwright, wrote in French

  D

• Aagje Deken, poet, letter writer
• Maria Dermoût, acclaimed novelist, author of The Ten Thousand Things
• Thea Doelwijt, journalist, novelist, playwright
• Renate Dorrestein, journalist, novelist
• Tonke Dragt, children's writer, illustrator, author of De brief voor de Koning
• Jessica Durlacher, critic, columnist, novelist

  E

• Anna Enquist, popular poet, novelist

  F

• Anne Frank, Holocaust victim, author of The Diary of a Young Girl

  G

• Ida Gerhardt, poet
• Hermine de Graaf, short story writer, novelist
• Els de Groen, politician, novelist, non-fiction writer

  H

• Francisca de Haan, historian specializing in gender studies
• Hella Haasse, highly acclaimed novelist, some works set in the East Indies
• Judith Herzberg, poet, playwright
• Nienke van Hichtum, children's writer, wrote in West Frisian and Dutch
• Etty Hillesum, diarist, letter writer, during German occupation of Amsterdam
• Rozalie Hirs, poet, composer
• Marjolijn Hof, novelist, some works translated into English
• Xaviera Hollander, call girl, memoirist
• Maria Aletta Hulshoff, feminist writer
• Cornélie Huygens, feminist activist, columnist

  K

• Marie Kessels, poet, prose writer
• Yvonne Keuls, Indo writer, novelist
• Yvonne Kroonenberg, psychologist, columnist, popular works about men
• Mina Kruseman, feminist, non-fiction writer
• Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz, historical works

  L

• Astrid Lampe, poet, actress
• Katharyne Lescailje, successful female poet, translator
• Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer, memoirist, translator
• Tessa de Loo, successful contemporary novelist
• Emilie Luzac, letter writer

  M

• Cissy van Marxveldt, children's writer
• Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma, columnist, children's writer
• Vonne van der Meer, novelist, short story writer, playwright
• Doeschka Meijsing, novelist
• Hanny Michaelis, poet
• Marga Minco, journalist, novelist
• Marente de Moor, novelist, columnist
• Mieke Mosmuller, novelist, non-fiction work, writes mainly in Dutch and German
• Charlotte Mutsaers prose writer and essayist

  N

• Saskia Noort, crime-fiction writer, journalist

  P

• Connie Palmen, novelist
• Ethel Portnoy, essayist, columnist, short story writer, novelist, wrote in English but considered herself a Dutch writer
• Maria Pypelinckx, letter writer

  Q

• Catharina Questiers, successful female poet, playwright

  R

• Veronique Renard, trans woman memoirist, non-fiction writer in English
• Henriette Roland Holst, poet, playwright, biographer
• Astrid Roemer, Surinamese novelist, poet, living in the Netherlands
• Hannie Rouweler, leading contemporary Dutch poet
• Heleen van Royen, best selling novelist, columnist
• Renate Rubinstein, journalist, columnist, non-fiction writer
• Helga Ruebsamen, columnist, novelist
• Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, children's writer

  S

• Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg, historical works on Ancient Greece and Persia
• Annet Schaap, children's literature
• Margo Scharten-Antink, poet, novelist
• Mineke Schipper, novelist, non-fiction works on women's literature
• Annie M.G. Schmidt, highly acclaimed children's writer, screenwriter for television
• Anna Maria van Schurman, German-born poet, works in Latin in defence of female education
• Anja Sicking, novelist, short story writer
• Hilda van Stockum, successful English-language children's writer

  T

• Marianne Thieme, politician, works on animals rights
• Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, poet, translators

  U

• Mellie Uyldert, astrologer, numerous best-selling esoteric works

  V

• M. Vasalis, poet, psychiatrist
• Cornelia van der Veer, poet
• Jacoba van Velde, novelist, author of the successful De grote zaal
• Stephanie Vetter, novelist, short story writer
• Anna Visscher, poet, translator
• Simone van der Vlugt, historical and young adult novelist, several works translated into English
• Ida Vos, children's writer
• Beb Vuyk, acclaimed Indo short story writer, novelist

  W

• Lulu Wang, Chinese born best-selling novelist, writes in Dutch
• Elly de Waard, poet, music critic
• Maria Petronella Woesthoven, poet
• Betje Wolff, epistolary novelist, works co-authored with Aagje Deken

  Z

• Annejet van der Zijl, best-seller novelist, biographer