Gcina Mhlophe
South African storyteller (writer, performer, director)
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Nontsizi Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929.
Voltairine de Cleyre
1800s American anarcho-feminist
Savitribai Phule
Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely considered the first female teacher of modern India.
Nadia Anjuman
Afghan poet murdered by her husband
Indira Goswami
Goswami pioneered feminist Assamese literature by raising awareness of issues faced by the marginalized.
Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.
Na Hyesŏk
Korean activist, poet, journalist and painter
Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Gladys Thomas
Award-winning South African poet, playwright and short-story writer