List of Chilean women writers

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

A

• Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), Chilean-American poet, memoirist, now lives in the United States
• Isabel Allende (born 1942), highly acclaimed Chilean-American novelist, journalist, columnist, magazine editor, children's writer
• Marina Arrate (born 1957), poet, psychologist
• Carmen Arriagada (1807–1888), letter writer, wrote in English and French

B

• Martina Barros Borgoño (1850–1944), autobiographer, early feminist
• María Luisa Bombal (1910–1980), acclaimed novelist, feminist
• Marta Brunet (1897–1967), novelist, short story writer

C

• Elena Caffarena (1903–2003), politician, women's rights activist, non-fiction writer
• Mabel Condemarín (1931–2004), educator, text-book writer, children's writer
• Mariana Cox Méndez (1871–1914), novelist, short story writer, columnist, feminist
• María de la Cruz (1912–1995), suffragist, journalist, poet, novelist, magazine editor

E

• Diamela Eltit (born 1949), educator, novelist

F

• Soledad Fariña Vicuña (born 1943), widely translated poet

G

• Carla Guelfenbein (born 1959), novelist, screenwriter
• Viviana Guzmán (born 1982), flutist, poet

J

• Andrea Jeftanovic (born 1970), novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Pamela Jiles (born 1960), investigative journalist, poet, television presenter

L

• Claudia Larraguíbel (born 1968), teacher, journalist, novelist

M

• Carmen Marai, pen name of Carmen María Bassa Rodríguez, poet, novelist, married in the mid-1960s
• Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), pen name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (1889–1957), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, poet, educator, feminist
• Yolanda Montecinos (1927–2007), journalist, television presenter
• Isabel Morel (born 1885), journalist, magazine editor, feminist
• Henrietta Müller (1846–1906), Chilean-British journalist, feminist

P

• Marcela Paz, pen name of Esther Huneeus Salas de Claro (1902–1985), children's writer, creator of Papelucho
• Josefa de los Dolores Peña y Lillo Barbosa (1739–1823), letter writer, poet
• Magdalena Petit (1903–1968), popular novelist, playwright, essayist, biographer
• Monica Pidgeon (1913–2009), Chilean-British editor of Architectural Design

R

• Carmen Rodríguez (born 1948), Chilean-Canadian poet, short story writer, educator,
• Winétt de Rokha, pen name of Luisa Anabalón Sanderson (1892–1951), poet

S

• Lake Sagaris (born 1956), Canadian journalist, non-fiction writer, poet, translator, now living in Chile
• Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa (1886–1960), playwright, novelist, magazine editor
• Raquel Señoret (1922–1990), poet
• Marcela Serrano (born 1951), novelist

U

• Matilde Urrutia (1912–1985), memoirist

V

• Mercedes Valdivieso (1924–1993), pioneering feminist writer, novelist, author of La Brecha.
• Patricia Verdugo (1947–2008), investigative journalist, human rights activist, non-fiction writer

W

• Brígida Walker (1863–1942), educator, non-fiction writer
• Teresa Wilms Montt (1893–1921), poet, novelist, feminist

See also

• List of women writers
• List of Spanish-language authors