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Politically influential queen of the Khmer Empire from roughly 1181 to 1219
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Yolanda Morazzo
Although Cape Verdean writer and poet Yolanda Morazzo lived in Portugal and Angola for much of her life, she is associated with her home country’s Claridade movement, part of a larger push for cultural, social, and political freedoms.
Agripina Samper Agudelo
1800s Colombian poet and literary figure
Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil
Djiboutian poet, singer, and songwriter.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.
María Cano
María de los Ángeles Cano Márquez was a pioneering Colombian poet, writer, and the country’s first female political leader. Known as the “Labor Flower,” she championed civil rights and workers’ rights, leading strikes and co-founding the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Božena Benešová
Prominent Czech author, best known for her role in the Czech literary scene of the early 20th century.
Edith Searle Grossmann
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
Martha Gruening
Jewish activist and journalist
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer