List of Latvian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Latvia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

  • Amanda Aizpuriete (born 1956), poet, translator, poetry translated into several languages
  • Aspazija, pen name of Elza Pliekšāne, (1865–1943), poet, playwright, journalist, feminist
  • Regīna Ezera, pen name of Regīna Šamreto (1930–2002), novelist, short story writer
  • Maria Holm (1845–1912), poet, playwright, wrote in German
  • Nechama Leibowitz (1905–1997), Latvian-born biblical scholar, biblical studies in Hebrew
  • Zenta Mauriņa (1897–1978), biographer, essayist, novelist, short story writer, wrote in Latvian and German

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