Literary Archives - Page 10 of 76

Michela Murgia

Italian feminist writer and activist for the rights of women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and immigrants

Nezihe Muhiddin

Trailblazing Turkish women’s rights activist, journalist, writer and political leader

Paz Márquez-Benítez

Living amid the Philippines’ American colonial period, Paz Márquez-Benítez wrote her way into history as a prominent short-story author, educator, and editor.

Indira Goswami

Goswami pioneered feminist Assamese literature by raising awareness of issues faced by the marginalized.

Rosario Castellanos

One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century

Eileen Chang

Chinese-American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter

Edith Newman Devlin

20th century Irish lecturer in English

Grazia Deledda

The first Italian woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.