List of Serbian women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Serbia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.A
- Draginja Adamović, poet
- Princess Anka Obrenović, hers were the first literary works compiled by a woman to be published in Serbia
- Smilja Avramov, nonfiction writer
- Eustahija Arsić, writer
B
- Jelena Balšić, her three epistles are part of the Gorički zbornik, a medieval manuscript collection
- Anabela Basalo, novelist, short-story writer
- Isidora Bjelica, prose writer, playwright
- Marina Blagojević, writer on gender and feminism
- Milica Bodrožić, political history writer
- Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska, writer
- Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani, writer. This writer also holds a place in the Serbian literature of the 18th century.
- Anica Bošković, writer and poet. She's the sister of the famed physicist and scientist Roger Joseph Boscovich.
- Danica Bandić, writer
C
- Elizabeth Christitch, Irish journalist, writer, poet, translator and Serbian patriot.
- Annie Christitch, Serbian journalist, patriot and women's rights activist.
- Jelena Skerlić Ćorović, translator
D
- Jelena Dimitrijević, short story writer, novelist, poet
- Jelena Đurović, journalist
- Rajna Dragićević, writer, dictionary collaborator
- Draga Dejanović, poet
F
- Helen Losanitch Frothingham is best known for her Mission for Serbia: Letters from America and Canada, a collection of her letters during the six years she travelled doing war relief work during the First World War.
H
- Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović, novelist
I
- Branislava Ilić, playwright, screenwriter, prose writer, essayist
J
- Jefimija, poet
- Zorica Jevremović Munitić, playwright, literary historian
K
- Olivera Katarina, poet
- Irena Kazazić, writer
- Stoja Kašiković, née Zdjelarević, writer
- Mina Karadžić, writer and painter
L
- Jelena Lazarević, writer
- Paulina Lebl-Albala, journalist, translator, literary critic
- Vladana Likar-Smiljanić, correspondent
- Tamara Lujak, science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, editor, journalist, short story writer, book reviewer
- Svetlana Lukić, journalist
- Jelena Lozanić
- Anđelija Lazarević, writer
M
- Desanka Maksimović, poet
- Jasmina Mihajlović, writer and literary critic
- Princess Milica of Serbia, poet, author of "A Mother's Prayer"
- Ognjenka Milićević, translator, essayist
- Mir-Jam, novelist
- Nadežka Mosusova, non-fiction writer
- Zorica Mršević, non-fiction writer on gender equality, violence, human rights, marginalized groups, and jurisprudence
- Ana Marija Marović, poet and painter
- Mara Đorđević-Malagurski, writer and ethnologist
- Milena Mrazović, Austro-Hungarian writer
- Maga Magazinović, journalist and writer
- Jelena Marinković, writer
- Jelena Milojković, writer
- Jelisaveta Marković, translator from French, Latin, Norwegian, and English
N
- Anna Novakov, art historian, art critic
O
- Vida Ognjenović, playwright, writer
- Princess Anka Obrenović, writer
P
- Milena Pavlović-Barili, poet
- Mira Adanja Polak, journalist, television presenter
- Maria Palaiologina, Queen of Serbia, writer
- Jelena Popović, poet
- Jelica Perović=Pomoriščeva, translator
R
- Eva Ras, poet, short story writer, novelist
S
- Anica Savić Rebac, translator, essayist, biographer
- Ljiljana Smajlović, journalist, newspaper editor
- Biljana Srbljanović, playwright
- Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja, poet
- Maša Stokić, dramatist, drama critic
- Gordana Suša, journalist
- Staka Skenderova, Bosnian Serb writer
- Olivia Sudjic, British novelist
- Isidora Sekulić, novelist
- Jela Spiridonović-Savić, poet and fiction writer
- Dubravka Sekulić, author and architect
- Sofija Skoric, cultural activist and author
- Ružica Sokić, actress and writer
- Svetlana Spajić, cultural activist and translator
- Mirjana Stefanović, writer
- Jelena Đ. Simić, writer
- Jelena Popović Spasić, writer
- Jovanka Skerlić, translator
T
- Ana Tasić, theatre critic
- Jasmina Tešanović essayist, short story writer, translator
V
- Svetlana Velmar-Janković, novelist, essayist, chronicler
- Divna M. Vuksanović, non-fiction writer, philosopher
- Nada Vilotijević, professor and author
- Sonja Veselinović, writer
- Jelena Vukičević, writer
Z
- Nina Živančević, Serbian-born playwright, poet, novelist, critic
- Cvijeta Zuzorić, lyric poet; the Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion in Belgrade is named after her