List of Dutch women writers

This is a list of women writers born in the Netherlands, or whose writings are closely associated with it.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

• Jo van Ammers-Küller (1884–1966), interwar novelist and non-fiction writer
• Threes Anna (born 1959), novelist, live performance producer and film director
• Simone Atangana Bekono (born 1991), novelist and poet

B

• Maria Barnas (born 1973), novelist, poet and essayist
• Marjolein Bastin (born 1943), children's writer and illustrator
• Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), prioress and author of early Dutch prose work Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen (Seven Ways of Holy Love)
• Thea Beckman (1923–2004), children's writer
• Nel Benschop (1918–2005), poet
• Carli Biessels (1936–2016), children's writer
• Anna Blaman (1905–1960), poet and novelist
• Marion Bloem (born 1952), Indo (Dutch/East Indian) novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer
• Louise Sophie Blussé (1801–1896), non-fiction writer
• Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886), novelist
• Anneke Brassinga (born 1948), poet, prose writer and translator
• Til Brugman (1888–1958), poet, novelist and translator
• Andreas Burnier (1931–2002), poet, novelist and active feminist

C

• Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), correspondent, novelist and playwright writing in French
• Willy Corsari (1897–1998), novelist, actress, comédienne and composer

D

• Aagje Deken (1741–1804), poet and correspondent
• Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), novelist; author of The Ten Thousand Things
• Thea Doelwijt (born 1938), journalist, novelist and playwright
• Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), journalist and novelist
• Tonke Dragt (1930–2024), children's writer and illustrator; author of De brief voor de Koning (Letter for the King)
• Jessica Durlacher (born 1961), critic, columnist and novelist

E

• Anna Enquist (born 1945), poet and novelist
• Henrica van Erp (c. 1480 – 1548), abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle

F

• Anne Frank (1929–1945), author of The Diary of a Young Girl and Holocaust victim

G

• Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997), poet
• Hermine de Graaf (1951–2013), fiction writer
• Els de Groen (born 1949), politician, novelist and non-fiction writer
• Wies van Groningen (née Louise Metaal) (1929–2022), Moluccan Dutch writer and story collector

H

• Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998 onwards), historian of gender studies
• Hella Haasse (1918–2011), novelist with some works set in the East Indies
• Judith Herzberg (born 1934), poet and playwright
• Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939), children's writer in West Frisian and Dutch
• Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), diarist and correspondent during the German occupation of Amsterdam
• Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), poet and composer
• Marjolijn Hof (born 1956), novelist with some works translated into English
• Xaviera Hollander (born 1943), call girl and memoirist
• Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1781–1846), feminist writer
• Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902), feminist activist and columnist

I

• Marith Iedema (born 1989), journalist and documentarian

K

• Marie Kessels (born 1954), poet and prose writer
• Yvonne Keuls (born 1931), Indo writer and novelist
• Yvonne Kroonenberg (born 1950), psychologist, columnist and author of works about men
• Mina Kruseman (1839–1922), feminist and non-fiction writer
• Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989), historical writer
• Emy Koopman (born 1985), video and print journalist, bibliotherapy researcher and scholar

L

• Astrid Lampe (born 1955), poet and actress
• Katharyne Lescailje (1649–1711), poet and translator
• Noni Lichtveld (1929–2017), children's writer and illustrator based in Suriname
• Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (1664–1737), memoirist and translator
• Tessa de Loo (born 1946), novelist
• Emilie Luzac (1748–1788), correspondent

M

• Cissy van Marxveldt (1889–1948), children's writer
• Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma (1918–2001), columnist and children's writer
• Clara Meijers (1885–1964), feminist writer
• Vonne van der Meer (born 1952), fiction writer and playwright
• Doeschka Meijsing (1947–2012), novelist
• Hanny Michaelis (1922–2007), poet
• Marga Minco (1920–2023), journalist and novelist
• Marente de Moor (born 1972), novelist and columnist
• Mieke Mosmuller (born 1951), fiction and non-fiction writer in Dutch and German
• Mirjam Mous (born 1963), author of children's literature
• Marian Mudder (born 1958), columnist and non-fiction writer
• Charlotte Mutsaers (born 1942), prose writer and essayist

N

• Saskia Noort (born 1967), crime-fiction writer and journalist

P

• Connie Palmen (born 1955), novelist
• Marianne Philips (1886–1951), psychological novelist and politician
• Ethel Portnoy (1927–2004), essayist, columnist and fiction writer in English
• Maria Pypelinckx (1538–1608), correspondent

Q

• Catharina Questiers (1631–1669), poet and playwright

R

• Veronique Renard (born 1965), trans woman memoirist and non-fiction writer in English
• Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952), poet, playwright and biographer
• Astrid Roemer (born 1947), Suriname novelist and poet living in the Netherlands
• Hannie Rouweler (born 1951), Dutch poet
• Heleen van Royen (born 1965), novelist and columnist
• Renate Rubinstein (1929–1990), journalist, columnist and non-fiction writer
• Helga Ruebsamen (1934–2016), columnist and novelist
• Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990), children's writer

S

• Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000), historical works on Ancient Greece and Persia
• Annet Schaap (born 1965), children's literature
• Margo Scharten-Antink (1868–1957), poet and novelist
• Mineke Schipper (born 1938), novelist and non-fiction writer on women's literature
• Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995), children's writer and television screenwriter
• Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678), German-born poet with works in Latin in defence of female education
• Anja Sicking (born 1965), fiction writer
• Hilda van Stockum (1908–2006), English-language children's writer

T

• Marianne Thieme (born 1972), politician and writer on animals rights
• Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723–1786), poet and translator

U

• Mellie Uyldert (1908–2009), astrologer and esoteric writer

V

• M. Vasalis (1909–1998), poet and psychiatrist
• Cornelia van der Veer (1639–1704), poet
• Jacoba van Velde (1903–1985), novelist author of De grote zaal
• Stephanie Vetter (1884–1974), fiction writer
• Anna Visscher (1584–1651), poet and translator
• Simone van der Vlugt (born 1966), historical and young-adult novelist
• Ida Vos (1931–2006), children's writer
• Beb Vuyk (1905–1991), Indo fiction writer

W

• Lulu Wang (born 1960), Chinese-born novelist writing in Dutch
• Elly de Waard (born 1940), poet and music critic
• Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760–1830), poet
• Betje Wolff (1738–1804), epistolary novelist of works co-authored with Aagje Deken
• Yael van der Wouden (born 1987), novelist

Z

• Marie van Zeggelen (1870–1957), novelist and children's writer
• Annejet van der Zijl (born 1962), novelist and biographer

See also

• List of women writers
• List of Dutch writers

References