List of Russian women writers

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This is a list of women writers who were born in Russia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A[]

  • Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, translator
  • Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), acclaimed poet, author of Requiem
  • Elizaveta Akhmatova (1820–1904), "Leila" published a journal for 30 years with translations of English and French writers[1]
  • Elena Akselrod (born 1932), Belarus-born Russian poet, translator
  • Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature
  • Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, essayist, journalist
  • Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin, memoirist, biographer, author of Twenty Letters to a Friend
  • Al Altaev (1852–1959), writer for children[2]
  • Tatyana Alyoshina (born 1961), singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer
  • Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), psychoanalyst, memoirist, literary essayist, novelist, often writing in German
  • Domna Anisimova (19th century), poet
  • Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (1859/64–1933) actress, writer, playwright[3]
  • Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), prominent poet[3]
  • Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya (1840–1915), translator and writer of feminist novels[4]
  • Olga Anstei (1912–1985), writer about the Holocaust[5]
  • Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya[5]
  • Elena Ivanovna Apréleva (1846–1923), non-fiction writer, short story writer, memoirist, playwright, children's writer
  • Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, feminist[5]
  • Olga Arefieva (born 1966), singer-songwriter, poet, musician
  • Yekaterina Avdeyeva (1788–1865), non-fiction writer

B[]

  • Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, novelist
  • Agniya Barto (1906–1981), poet, children's writer, screenwriter
  • Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova (1879–1952), actress, novelist, magazine editor
  • Maria Belakhova (1903–1969), children's writer, magazine editor, educator
  • Katerina Belkina (born 1974), photographer, painter
  • Nina Berberova (1901–1993), short story writer, novelist, biographer, author of the autobiography The Italics are Mine
  • Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev (1871–1945), poet
  • Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), poet, playwright, journalist
  • Antonina Bludova (1813–1891), salonist, memoirist
  • Natella Boltyanskaya (born 1965), songwriter, poet, radio host
  • Marina Boroditskaya (born 1954), poet, children's writer, translator
  • Vera Broido (1907–2004), memoirist, non-fiction writer, autobiographer
  • Anna Bunina (1774–1829), poet, first Russian women to earn a living from writing

C[]

  • Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), novelist, works recently revived
  • Svetlana Chervonnaya (born 1948), historian, non-fiction writer, essayist
  • Elena Chudinova (born 1959), novelist, poet, playwright, columnist
  • Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996), novelist, author of Sofia Petrovna

D[]

  • Tatyana Danilyants (born 1971), film director, photographer, poet
  • Hadiya Davletshina (1905–1954), poet, prose writer, playwright
  • Irina Denezhkina (born 1981), short story writer
  • Marina Denikina (1919–2005), Russian-born French historical novelist, journalist
  • Regina Derieva (1949–2013), widely translated poet, essayist
  • Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947), short story writer, children's writer, autobiographer
  • Aliona Doletskaya (born 1955), journalist, editor, television host, translator
  • Veronika Dolina (born 1956), poet, songwriter
  • Darya Dontsova (born 1952), best selling crime-fiction novelist, autobiographer
  • Anna Dostoyevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, biographer
  • Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926), biographer of Dostoyevsky, memoirist, short story writer, novelist
  • Yulia Drunina (1924–1991), poet
  • Svetlana Druzhinina (born 1935), actress, screenwriter, film director
  • Miroslava Duma (born 1985), fashion writer, magazine editor

E[]

F[]

  • Elena Fanailova (born 1962), journalist, poet, columnist, translator
  • Dorothea de Ficquelmont (1804–1863), diarist (in French), letter writer
  • Vera Figner (1852–1942), revolutionary memoirist, biographer, columnist
  • Olga Forsh (1873–1961), novelist, playwright, memoirist
  • Elena Frolova (born 1969), singer-songwriter, poet

G[]

  • Cherubina de Gabriak, pen name of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva (1887–1928), poet, translator
  • Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, short story writer, historian
  • Nora Gal (1912–1991), critic, essayist, prominent translator
  • Alisa Ganieva (born 1985), pen name Gulla Khirachev, novelist, short story writer, essayist
  • Tatiana Garmash-Roffe (born 1959), novelist, short story writer, detective story writer
  • Liudmila Gatagova, historian, since c.1993 several historical works
  • Vera Gedroitz (1870–1932), medical doctor, poet
  • Marina Gershenovich (born 1960), poet, translator
  • Masha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, columnist, biographer, writing in Russian and English
  • Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990), critic, historian, memoirist
  • Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977), educator, journalist, historian, memoirist
  • Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), modernist poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, translator, several works translated into English
  • Maria Golovnina (c.1980–2015), journalist, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013), poet, translator
  • Nina Gorlanova (born 1947), short story writer, novelist
  • Anastasia Gosteva (born 1975), novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist
  • Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944), novelist, playwright
  • Olga Grushin (born 1971), Russian-American novelist, translator
  • Elena Guro (1877–1913), playwright, poet, novelist, artist

I[]

J[]

K[]

  • Vera Kamsha (born 1962), Ukrainian-born Russian journalist, fantasy novelist
  • Anna Kashina, Russian-American novelist, completed The Princess of Dhagabad in 2000
  • Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008), poet, popular songwriter
  • Elena Kazantseva (born 1956), Belarusian-born Russian poet, songwriter
  • Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya (1908–1994), Gulag memoirist
  • Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889), novelist, poet, critic, translator
  • Marusya Klimova (born 1961), prominent non-fiction writer, literary historian, translator
  • Ekaterina Kniazhnina (1746–1797), poet, salonist, considered by some to be the first Russian woman writer
  • Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), politician, writer
  • Ina Konstantinova [1924–1944), wartime diarist
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891), mathematician, non-fiction writer
  • Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949), journalist, essayist
  • Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), dissident journalist, autobiographer
  • Olga Kryuchkova (born 1966), historical novelist

L[]

  • Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky (1874–1951), poet, novelist
  • Anna Larina (1914–1996), memoirist
  • Yulia Latynina (born 1966), journalist, novelist, television presenter
  • Marina Lesko, since 1992, journalist, columnist
  • Sonya Levien (1888–1960), screenwriter
  • Olga Lipovskaya (1954–2021), poet, magazine editor, feminist
  • Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905), acclaimed poet
  • Nina Lugovskaya (1918–1993), Gulag diarist

M[]

  • Yelena Maglevannaya (born 1981), journalist
  • Natalia Malakhovskaia (born 1947), feminist writer
  • Tatiana Mamonova (born 1943), poet, journalist, feminist
  • Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), memoirist, biographer
  • Anna Margolin (1887–1952), Russian-American Yiddish-language poet
  • Alexandra Marinina (born 1957), best selling crime fiction novelist, works widely translated
  • Maria Markova (born 1982), poet
  • Novella Matveyeva (born 1934), poet, songwriter, screenwriter, playwright
  • Olga Martynova (born 1962), poet, essayist, writing in Russian and German
  • Larisa Matros (born 1938), sociologist, novelist, short story writer, critic, poet
  • Novella Matveyeva (1934–2016), poet, screenwriter, dramatist, singer-songwriter
  • Vera Matveyeva (1945–1976), poet, singer-songwriter
  • Ida Mett (1901–1973), historical writer, magazine editor
  • Elena Milashina (born 1978), investigative journalist
  • Maria Moravskaya (1890–1947), poet, essayist, critic, translator
  • Yunna Morits (born 1937), poet, translator, short story writer, children's writer
  • Margarita Morozova (1873–1958), publisher, memoirist
  • Tatyana Moskvina (born 1958), columnist, novelist, journalist, critic, television host
  • Lena Mukhina (1924–1991), wartime diarist in Leningrad

N[]

  • Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936), occultist writer, journalist, translator, wrote in French
  • Vera Nazarian (born 1966), Armenian-Russian American science fiction novelist
  • Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia (1673–1716), playwright
  • Zhanna Nemtsova (born 1984), journalist, social activist
  • Aleksandra Nikolaenko, writer and winner of the 2017 Russian Booker Prize
  • Maria Nikolaeva (born 1971), spiritual teacher, religious writer, widely translated

O[]

  • Olga Obukhova (born 1941), journalist, novelist, translator
  • Irina Odoyevtseva (1895–1990), poet, novelist, memoirist
  • Raisa Orlova (1918–1989), literary historian, journalist, latterly in Germany

P[]

  • Marina Palei (born 1955), journalist, novelist, short story writer, translator
  • Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), novelist, short story writer, memoirist, salonist
  • Vera Panova (1905–1973), novelist, playwright, journalist, works translated into English
  • Sophia Parnok (1885–1933), poet, children's writer, translator
  • Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893), poet, novelist
  • Vera Pavlova (born 1963), poet
  • Olga Perovskaya (1902–1961), children's writer
  • Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (1918–2018), Russian-American non-fiction writer, autobiographer
  • Maria Petrovykh (1908–1979), poet, translator
  • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938), novelist, playwright, singer
  • Irina Petrushova (born 1965), journalist, newspaper editor
  • Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006), journalist, human rights activist
  • Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969), poet, translator, journalist
  • Sofiya Pregel (1894–1972), poet
  • Maria Prilezhayeva (1903–1989), children's writer, critic, novelist
  • Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (born 1932), memoirist, wife of Kim Philby

R[]

  • Rita Rait-Kovaleva (1898–1989), memoirist, translator
  • Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-born American novelist, philosopher
  • Maria Rasputin (1898–1977), memoirist
  • Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017), poet, memoirist
  • Helena Roerich (1879–1955), philosopher, artist, non-fiction writer, letter writer, translator
  • Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1811–1858), early poet, playwright, translator
  • Dina Rubina (born 1953), Russian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, essayist
  • Maria Rybakova (born 1973), short story writer, novelist
  • Elena Rzhevskaya (1919–2017), Second World War memoirist

S[]

  • Irina Saburova (1907–1979), journalist, short story writer, novelist, translator
  • Nina Mikhailovna Sadur (born 1950), playwright and prose writer
  • Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-French novelist, playwright, memoirist
  • Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944), Leningrad diarist
  • Olesya Shmagun (born 1987), investigative journalist
  • Olga Sedakova (born 1949), poet, translator
  • Ekaterina Sedia (born 1970), Russian-American fantasy novelist, author of The Alchemy of Stone
  • Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874), Russian-French novelist
  • Yulia Sineokaya (born 1969), philosopher and educator
  • Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982), novelist, political activist
  • Olga Shapir (1850–1916), novelist, feminist
  • Margarita Sharapova (born 1962), novelist, short story writer, now living in Portugal
  • Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952), poet, columnist, playwright, translator
  • Natalia Sheremeteva (1714–1771), early memoirist
  • Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952), poet, essayist, journalist
  • Paullina Simons (born 1963), Russian-American best selling novelist
  • Olga Slavnikova (born 1957), novelist, critic, author of 2017: A Novel
  • Esphyr Slobodkina (1908–2002), Russian-American children's writer, illustrator, author of Caps for Sale
  • Alexandra Smirnova (1809–1882), memoirist
  • Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884), short story writer, children's writer, journalist
  • Polyxena Solovyova (1867–1924), Russian poet and translator
  • Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), psychoanalyst, scientific writer
  • Anna Strunsky (1877–1964), Russian-American journalist, novelist, socialist activist, co-authored The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • Polina Suslova (1839–1918), short story writer
  • Alexandra Sviridova (born 1951), screenwriter, television presenter, now living in New York

T[]

  • Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), poet, playwright, translator, children's writer
  • Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952), playwright, short story writer
  • Fatima Tlisova (born 1966), journalist, now living in the United States
  • Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937), screenwriter, short story writer
  • Natalia Tolstaya (1943–2010), educator, translator, text book writer, writing in Swedish and Russian
  • Sophia Tolstaya (1844–1919), wife of Leo Tolstoy, diarist, memoirist
  • Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), novelist, essayist, television presenter
  • Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), novelist, wrote in Russian and (mainly) French
  • Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), poet, playwright
  • Evgenia Tur (1815–1892), novelist, literary critic, children's writer

U[]

  • Anya Ulinich (born 1973), novelist, short story writer
  • Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943), novelist, short story writer

V[]

  • Larisa Vaneeva (born 1953), short story writer
  • Galina Varlamova (born 1951), Evenk philologist, works in Russian, Evenk and Yakut
  • Svetlana Vasilenko (born 1956), short story writer, novelist
  • Marie Vassiltchikov (1917–1978), wartime Berlin diarist
  • Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976), novelist
  • Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928), novelist, playwright, screenwriter, publisher, feminist
  • Seda Vermisheva (born 1932), Armenian-born Russian poet, economist, activist
  • Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936), novelist, short story writer, memoirist, translator
  • Frida Vigdorova (1915–1965), journalist, novelist
  • Mariya Vilinska (1833–1907), novelist, short story writer, translator
  • Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862), poet, short story writer, playwright, salonist
  • Hava Volovich (1916–2000), memoirist, actress, Gulag survivor
  • Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743–1810), memoirist
  • Anna Vyrubova (1884–1964), memoirist

Y[]

Z[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Marina Ledkovskai͡a-Astman; Charlotte Rosenthal; Mary Fleming Zirin (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
  2. ^ Marina Ledkovskai͡a-Astman; Charlotte Rosenthal; Mary Fleming Zirin (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
  3. ^ a b Marina Ledkovskai͡a-Astman; Charlotte Rosenthal; Mary Fleming Zirin (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 27–29. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
  4. ^ Marina Ledkovskai͡a-Astman; Charlotte Rosenthal; Mary Fleming Zirin (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
  5. ^ a b c Marina Ledkovskai͡a-Astman; Charlotte Rosenthal; Mary Fleming Zirin (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 33–36. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
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