List of Burkinabe writers
This is a list of Burkinabé writers.
- François Djobi Bassolet, journalist, historian, and cultural leader
- Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, French-language poet, Ivorian-Canadian journalist and poet raised in Burkina Faso
- Jacques Prosper Bazié, poet
- Nazi Boni, politician and writer
- Sarah Bouyain, French-Burkinabé writer and film director
- Simporé Simone Compaore, French-language playwright
- Augustin-Sondé Coulibaly, French-language novelist, poet and critic
- Bernadette Sanou Dao, politician, poet and children's writer
- D. Jean Pierre Guingané, playwright, actor and director
- Frédéric Guirma, writer and politician
- Zarra Guiro, French-language autobiographical writer
- Ignace Ansomwin Hien, novelist, poet and storywriter
- Monique Ilboudo, politician and writer
- Pierre Claver Ilboudo, French-language novelist
- Sophie Heidi Kam, French-language poet, playwright and novelist
- Sandra Pierrette Kanzié, French-language poet
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, politician, historian, writer and activist
- Amadou Koné, novelist, playwright and short story writer
- Gaël Koné, French-language poet
- Honorine Mare, French-language poet and academic
- Roger Nikiéma, French-language journalist, novelist and poet
- Suzy Henrique Nikiéma, French-language novelist
- Kollin Noaga, pseudonym of Ernest Nongma Ouedraogo, politician, novelist and playwright
- Malika Ouattara, slam poet
- Dim-Dolobsom Ouedraogo, intellectual
- Titinga Frédéric Pacéré, griot, historian, museum curator and French-language writer
- Bernadette Sanou Dao, author and poet
- Adiza Sanoussi, French-language novelist
- Etienne Sawadogo, French-language novelist
- Marie-Simone Séri, French-language autobiographical writer also connected with Côte d'Ivoire
- Jean-Baptiste Somé, novelist
- Malidoma Patrice Somé, writer about religion, died in Oregon, United States
- Maxime Z. Somé, academic, politician and novelist
- Norbert Zongo, assassinated newspaper publisher, editor, journalist and novelist