List of Dutch women writers

A

• Jo van Ammers-Küller, interwar novelist and non-fiction writer
• Threes Anna, novelist, live performance producer and film director
• Simone Atangana Bekono, novelist and poet

B

• Maria Barnas, novelist, poet and essayist
• Marjolein Bastin, children's writer and illustrator
• Beatrice of Nazareth, prioress and author of early Dutch prose work Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen
• Thea Beckman, children's writer
• Nel Benschop, poet
• Carli Biessels, children's writer
• Anna Blaman, poet and novelist
• Marion Bloem, Indo novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer
• Louise Sophie Blussé, non-fiction writer
• Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, novelist
• Anneke Brassinga, poet, prose writer and translator
• Til Brugman, poet, novelist and translator
• Andreas Burnier, poet, novelist and active feminist

C

• Isabelle de Charrière, correspondent, novelist and playwright writing in French
• Willy Corsari, novelist, actress, comédienne and composer

D

• Aagje Deken, poet and correspondent
• Maria Dermoût, novelist; author of The Ten Thousand Things
• Thea Doelwijt, journalist, novelist and playwright
• Renate Dorrestein, journalist and novelist
• Tonke Dragt, children's writer and illustrator; author of De brief voor de Koning
• Jessica Durlacher, critic, columnist and novelist

E

• Anna Enquist, poet and novelist
• Henrica van Erp, abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle

F

• Anne Frank, author of The Diary of a Young Girl and Holocaust victim

G

• Ida Gerhardt, poet
• Hermine de Graaf, fiction writer
• Els de Groen, politician, novelist and non-fiction writer
• Wies van Groningen, Moluccan Dutch writer and story collector

H

• Francisca de Haan, historian of gender studies
• Hella Haasse, novelist with some works set in the East Indies
• Judith Herzberg, poet and playwright
• Nienke van Hichtum, children's writer in West Frisian and Dutch
• Etty Hillesum, diarist and correspondent during the German occupation of Amsterdam
• Rozalie Hirs, poet and composer
• Marjolijn Hof, novelist with some works translated into English
• Xaviera Hollander, call girl and memoirist
• Maria Aletta Hulshoff, feminist writer
• Cornélie Huygens, feminist activist and columnist

I

• Marith Iedema, journalist and documentarian

K

• Marie Kessels, poet and prose writer
• Yvonne Keuls, Indo writer and novelist
• Yvonne Kroonenberg, psychologist, columnist and author of works about men
• Mina Kruseman, feminist and non-fiction writer
• Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz, historical writer
• Emy Koopman, video and print journalist, bibliotherapy researcher and scholar

L

• Astrid Lampe, poet and actress
• Katharyne Lescailje, poet and translator
• Noni Lichtveld, children's writer and illustrator based in Suriname
• Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer, memoirist and translator
• Tessa de Loo, novelist
• Emilie Luzac, correspondent

M

• Cissy van Marxveldt, children's writer
• Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma, columnist and children's writer
• Clara Meijers, feminist writer
• Vonne van der Meer, fiction writer and playwright
• Doeschka Meijsing, novelist
• Hanny Michaelis, poet
• Marga Minco, journalist and novelist
• Marente de Moor, novelist and columnist
• Mieke Mosmuller, fiction and non-fiction writer in Dutch and German
• Mirjam Mous, author of children's literature
• Marian Mudder, columnist and non-fiction writer
• Charlotte Mutsaers, prose writer and essayist

N

• Saskia Noort, crime-fiction writer and journalist

P

• Connie Palmen, novelist
• Marianne Philips, psychological novelist and politician
• Ethel Portnoy, essayist, columnist and fiction writer in English
• Maria Pypelinckx, correspondent

Q

• Catharina Questiers, poet and playwright

R

• Veronique Renard, trans woman memoirist and non-fiction writer in English
• Astrid Roemer, Suriname novelist and poet living in the Netherlands
• Henriette Roland Holst, poet, playwright and biographer
• Hannie Rouweler, Dutch poet
• Heleen van Royen, novelist and columnist
• Renate Rubinstein, journalist, columnist and non-fiction writer
• Helga Ruebsamen, columnist and novelist
• Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, children's writer

S

• Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, historical works on Ancient Greece and Persia
• Annet Schaap, children's literature
• Margo Scharten-Antink, poet and novelist
• Mineke Schipper, novelist and non-fiction writer on women's literature
• Annie M. G. Schmidt, children's writer and television screenwriter
• Anna Maria van Schurman, German-born poet with works in Latin in defence of female education
• Anja Sicking, fiction writer
• Hilda van Stockum, English-language children's writer

T

• Marianne Thieme, politician and writer on animals rights
• Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, poet and translator

U

• Mellie Uyldert, astrologer and esoteric writer

V

• M. Vasalis, poet and psychiatrist
• Cornelia van der Veer, poet
• Jacoba van Velde, novelist author of De grote zaal
• Stephanie Vetter, fiction writer
• Anna Visscher, poet and translator
• Simone van der Vlugt, historical and young-adult novelist
• Ida Vos, children's writer
• Beb Vuyk, Indo fiction writer

W

• Lulu Wang, Chinese-born novelist writing in Dutch
• Elly de Waard, poet and music critic
• Maria Petronella Woesthoven, poet
• Betje Wolff, epistolary novelist of works co-authored with Aagje Deken
• Yael van der Wouden, novelist

Z

• Marie van Zeggelen, novelist and children's writer
• Annejet van der Zijl, novelist and biographer
• Maria van Zuylekom, poet and author
• Codien Zwaardemaker-Visscher, writer, translator and feminist