List of Peruvian women writers
# List of Peruvian women writers

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

## A

* María Jesús Alvarado Rivera (1878–1971), novelist, playwright, journalist, women's rights activist
* Marie Arana (born 1949), Peruvian-American novelist, journalist

## B

* Monica Brown (author) (born 1969), children's book author, literature professor

## C

* Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1845–1909), novelist, essayist
* Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958), novelist, essayist, travel writer, biographer
* Clarinda (17th century), pen name of an anonymous poet, author of Discurso en loor de la poesía

## F

* Julia Ferrer (1925–1995), poet

## G

* Doris Gibson (1910–2008), journalist, magazine publisher
* Teresa González de Fanning (1836–1918), essayist, journalist, feminist writer, women's rights activist
* Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818–1892), Argentine-born Peruvian freedom fighter, novelist, short story writer, newspaper founder

## L

* Ana María Llona Málaga (born 1936), poet

## M

* María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), feminist writer, historian, professor
* Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra (1844–1890), writer, poet, composer pianist
* Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909), novelist, biographer, essayist, translator

## N

* María Nieves y Bustamante (1871–1947), novelist, short story writer

## O

* Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy (born 1951), historian and university professor

## P

* Angélica Palma (1878–1935), novelist, biographer, journalist

## S

* Isabel Sabogal (born 1958), novelist, poet, translator
* Claudia Salazar Jiménez (born 1976), writer, editor, academic

## V

* Gisela Valcárcel (born 1963), television host, actress, autobiographer, magazine publisher
* Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist
* Blanca Varela (1926–2009), widely translated poet
* Chalena Vásquez (1950–2016), ethnomusicologist
