List of Lithuanian women writers
# List of Lithuanian women writers

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

## A

* Gintarė Adomaitytė (born 1957), journalist
* Loreta Anilionytė, philosopher, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist, since 2000
* Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz (1909–1998), Lithuanian-born Hebrew children's writer
* Magdalena Avietėnaitė (1892–1984), journalist, diplomat and a public figure

## B

* Ona Baliukonė (1948–2007), poet, essayist, painter

## C

* Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė (born 1976), playwright, novelist
* Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (born 1929), scholar, translator

## G

* Ona Galdikaitė (1898–1990), Lithuanian nun, poet and dissident writer, theological translator
* Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), Lithuanian-American translator, non-fiction writer, writings in German and English on archaeology, Lithuanian culture
* Emma Goldman (1869–1940), Lithuanian-born Russian-American memoirist, autobiographer, publisher, anarchist
* Aldona Gustas (born 1932), Lithuanian-born German-language poet, illustrator, feminist, works translated into several languages

## H

* Esther Hautzig (1930–2009), Lithuanian-born American, author of the autobiographical work The Endless Steppe

## I

* Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961–2007), novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, some works translated into English

## J

* Vidmantė Jasukaitytė (born 1948), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
* Vanda Juknaitė (born 1949), playwright, novelist, memoirist

## K

* Ugnė Karvelis (1935–2002), novelist, translator, publisher, editor

## L

* Marija Lastauskienė (1872–1957), novelist, short story writer, journalist, frequently writing jointly with her sister under the pen name Lazdynų Pelėda, wrote in Polish and Lithuanian
* Meilė Lukšienė (1913–2009), writings on education and Lithuanian culture

## M

* Edita Mildažytė (born 1966), journalist, talk show host
* Miriam Mosessohn (1841–1920), Lithuanian-born Hebrew-language translator of German novels

## N

* Salomėja Nėris, pen name of Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė (1904–1945), acclaimed poet

## P

* Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė (1861–1943), journalist, novelist, short story writer, playwright
* Sofija Pšibiliauskienė (1867–1926), wrote jointly with her sister Marija Lastauskienė under the pen name Lazdynų Pelėda, journalist, short story writer, novelist, usually writing in Polish
* Paulina Pukytė (born 1966), artist, poet, essayist, critic

## R

* Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (born 1960), journalist, short story writer
* Undinė Radzevičiūtė (born 1967), novelist, worked in advertising

## S

* Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (born 1974), art historian, historical novelist, short story writer
* Šatrijos Ragana (Witch of Šatrija), pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė (1877–1930), short story writer, novelist, translator
* Ieva Simonaitytė (1897–1978), historical novelist, works often subjected to Soviet censorship

## V

* Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936), archaeologist
* Indrė Valantinaitė (born 1984), poet, singer

## Z

* Žemaitė, pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė (1845–1921), novelist, short story writer
