List of Bolivian women writers

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

A

• Diego Aramburo (born 1971), actress, director and playwright
• Beatriz Azurduy Palacios (1952–2003), film director, screenwriter, non-fiction writer

B

• Yolanda Bedregal (1916–1999), poet, novelist
• Nadezhda Bravo Cladera (born 1944), linguist, writer, educator

C

• Matilde Casazola (born 1942), poet, songwriter, awarded the Order of the Condor of the Andes
• Carola Cobo (1909–2003), writer, theater and radio artist
• María Guadalupe Cuenca (1790–1854), letter writer
• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born 1949), Aymara feminist sociologist

F

• Hercilia Fernández de Mujía (1860–1929), poet and writer

G

• María Galindo (born 1964), activist, psychologist, screenwriter
• Teresa Gisbert (1926–2018), architect, art historian, educator, non-fiction writer

J

• Dora Justiniano de la Rocha (1925–2016), Bolivian linguist, educator and poet

M

• Rosa Julieta Montaño Salvatierra (born 1946), attorney, activist, non-fiction writer
• María Josefa Mujía (1812–1888), poet, Bolivia's first woman writer
• Hilda Mundy (1912–1980), writer, poet, journalist

R

• Centa Rek (born 1954), novelist, psychoanalyst, politician
• Giovanna Rivero (born 1972), novelist and short story writer
• Ana María Romero de Campero (1941–2010), politician, journalist, non-fiction writer

T

• Lola Taborga de Requena (1890–c.1950), modernist poet
• Gigia Talarico (born 1953), writer and poet
• Ana Rosa Tornero (1907–1984), journalist, editor, women's rights activist
• María Cristina Trigo (1935–2014), writer and human rights activist

U

• Julia Urquidi (1926–2010), memoirist

V

• Gaby Vallejo Canedo (1941–2024), novelist
• Etelvina Villanueva y Saavedra (1897–1969), educator, feminist, writer, poet

W

• Blanca Wiethüchter (1947–2004), poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist

Z

• Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), acclaimed poet, feminist, educator

References

See also

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