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.
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
1800s Colombian poet and literary figure
1980s Ivorian novelist
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 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.
Irish writer
As one of New Zealand’s most distinguished nurses, she had not only cared for the sick and wounded but contributed to the welfare of the young.
Irish novelist
Accomplished American author and screenwriter, notable for her significant contributions to science fiction and Hollywood screenplays.