List of Croatian women writers

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

• Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), children's writer

B

• Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska (1870–1946), feminist, pedagogic writer, ethnographer
• Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani (1710–1784), early poet
• Anica Bošković (1714–1804), early poet and song writer

C

• Aloïse de Carlowitz (1797 – 1863) was a translator and author who was born in Rijeka
• Nives Celsius (born 1981), columnist

D

• Slavenka Drakulić (born 1949), novelist, essayist, and non-fiction writer
• Daša Drndić (1946–2018), novelist

G

• Stanka Gjurić (born 1956), poet and lyric essayist

I

• Rada Iveković (born 1945), non-fiction writers
• Nada Iveljić (1931–2009), children's writer

J

• Marija Jambrišak (1847–1937), educator, writer, magazine editor
• Dragojla Jarnević (1813–1875), poet
• Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873–1957), journalist, novelist and dramatist

K

• Lada Kaštelan (born 1961), dramatist, screenwriter
• Nada Klaić (1920–1988), historian
• Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990), novelist, autobiographer
• Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018), novelist

M

• Julijana Matanović (born 1959), short story writer and novelist

R

• Nasta Rojc (1883–1964), autobiographer, letter writer, painter

Š

• Sunčana Škrinjarić (1931–2004), writer, poet and journalist
• Marina Šur Puhlovski, short story and travel writer, novelist and essayist

T

• Jagoda Truhelka (1864–1957), novelist and pedagogist

U

• Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), novelist

Z

• Katarina Zrinska (c. 1625–1673), noblewoman, poet
• Cvijeta Zuzorić (1552–1648), lyric poet

See also

• List of women writers
• List of Croatian writers
• Croatian literature