List of Dutch women writers

This is a list of women writers born in the Netherlands, or whose writings are closely associated with it.

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Maria Barnas (born 1973), novelist, poet and essayist
Marjolein Bastin (born 1943), children's writer and illustrator
Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), prioress and author of early Dutch prose work Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen (Seven Ways of Holy Love)
Thea Beckman (1923–2004), children's writer
Nel Benschop (1918–2005), poet
Carli Biessels (1936–2016), children's writer
Anna Blaman (1905–1960), poet and novelist
Marion Bloem (born 1952), Indo (Dutch/East Indian) novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer
Louise Sophie Blussé (1801–1896), non-fiction writer
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886), novelist
Anneke Brassinga (born 1948), poet, prose writer and translator
Til Brugman (1888–1958), poet, novelist and translator
Andreas Burnier (1931–2002), poet, novelist and active feminist

Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), correspondent, novelist and playwright writing in French
Willy Corsari (1897–1998), novelist, actress, comédienne and composer

Aagje Deken (1741–1804), poet and correspondent
Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), novelist; author of The Ten Thousand Things
Thea Doelwijt (born 1938), journalist, novelist and playwright
Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), journalist and novelist
Tonke Dragt (born 1930), children's writer and illustrator; author of De brief voor de Koning (Letter for the King)
Jessica Durlacher (born 1961), critic, columnist and novelist

Anna Enquist (born 1945), poet and novelist
Henrica van Erp (c. 1480 – 1548), abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle

Anne Frank (1929–1945), author of The Diary of a Young Girl and Holocaust victim

Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997), poet
Hermine de Graaf (1951–2013), fiction writer
Els de Groen (born 1949), politician, novelist and non-fiction writer
Wies van Groningen (née Louise Metaal) (1929–2022), Moluccan Dutch writer and story collector

Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998 onwards), historian of gender studies
Hella Haasse (1918–2011), novelist with some works set in the East Indies
Judith Herzberg (born 1934), poet and playwright
Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939), children's writer in West Frisian and Dutch
Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), diarist and correspondent during the German occupation of Amsterdam
Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), poet and composer
Marjolijn Hof (born 1956), novelist with some works translated into English
Xaviera Hollander (born 1943), call girl and memoirist
Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1781–1846), feminist writer
Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902), feminist activist and columnist

Marie Kessels (born 1954), poet and prose writer
Yvonne Keuls (born 1931), Indo writer and novelist
Yvonne Kroonenberg (born 1950), psychologist, columnist and author of works about men
Mina Kruseman (1839–1922), feminist and non-fiction writer
Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989), historical writer
Emy Koopman (born 1985), video and print journalist, bibliotherapy researcher and scholar

Veronique Renard (born 1965), trans woman memoirist and non-fiction writer in English
Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952), poet, playwright and biographer
Astrid Roemer (born 1947), Suriname novelist and poet living in the Netherlands
Hannie Rouweler (born 1951), Dutch poet
Heleen van Royen (born 1965), novelist and columnist
Renate Rubinstein (1929–1990), journalist, columnist and non-fiction writer
Helga Ruebsamen (1934–2016), columnist and novelist
Anna Rutgers van der Loeff (1910–1990), children's writer

Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000), historical works on Ancient Greece and Persia
Annet Schaap (born 1965), children's literature
Margo Scharten-Antink (1868–1957), poet and novelist
Mineke Schipper (born 1938), novelist and non-fiction writer on women's literature
Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995), children's writer and television screenwriter
Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678), German-born poet with works in Latin in defence of female education
Anja Sicking (born 1965), fiction writer
Hilda van Stockum (1908–2006), English-language children's writer

M. Vasalis (1909–1998), poet and psychiatrist
Cornelia van der Veer (1639–1704), poet
Jacoba van Velde (1903–1985), novelist author of De grote zaal
Stephanie Vetter (1884–1974), fiction writer
Anna Visscher (1584–1651), poet and translator
Simone van der Vlugt (born 1966), historical and young-adult novelist
Ida Vos (1931–2006), children's writer
Beb Vuyk (1905–1991), Indo fiction writer

Lulu Wang (born 1960), Chinese-born novelist writing in Dutch
Elly de Waard (born 1940), poet and music critic
Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760–1830), poet
Betje Wolff (1738–1804), epistolary novelist of works co-authored with Aagje Deken