The following are lists of writers:

Alphabetical indices

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Lists by genre

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Lists by language (non-English)

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Lists by ethnicity or nationality

• African writers • African-American writers • Albanian writers • Algerian writers • American writers • Arab American writers • Armenian authors • Asian-American writers • Assyrian writers • Australian authors • Bangladeshi writers • Barbadian writers • Beninese writers • Black British writers • Bosniak writers • British Jewish writers • Brazilian writers • Canadian writers • Chinese writers • Colombian writers • Croatian writers • Cuban writers • Cuban American writers • Dominican writers • English writers • Egyptian writers • Gambian writers • Georgian writers • German writers • Ghanaian writers • Greek writers • Grenadian writers • Guyanese writers • Hungarian writers • Icelandic writers • Indian writers • Iranian writers • Irish writers • Italian writers • Jamaican writers • Jewish American writers • Kenyan writers • Korean American writers • Macedonian writers • Mexican writers • Malawian writers • Mexican American writers • Moroccan writers • Native American writers • Nepali writers • New Zealand writers • Nigerian writers • Norwegian writers • Pakistani writers • Peruvian writers • Philippine writers • Polish writers • Portuguese writers • Puerto Rican writers • Romanian writers • Russian authors • Saudi Arabian writers • Scottish writers • Serbian writers • Slovak authors • Slovenian writers • Somali writers • Spanish writers • South African writers • Surinamese writers • Taiwanese authors • Tanzanian writers • Trinidad and Tobago writers • Ukrainian writers • Ugandan writers • Uruguayan authors • Venezuelan writers • Zimbabwean writers • General • Exophonic writers • LGBT writers • Non-binary writers • Military writers • Novelists by nationality • Playwrights by nationality and date of birth Top of page

Lists of women writers and works

Main list 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 Top of page

Lists by publisher

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