This is a list of women writers who were born in Peru or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
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- María Jesús Alvarado Rivera (1878–1971), novelist, playwright, journalist, women's rights activist
- Marie Arana (born 1949), Peruvian-American novelist, journalist
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- Monica Brown (author) (born 1969), children's book author, literature professor
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- Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1845–1909), novelist, essayist
- Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958), novelist, essayist, travel writer, biographer
- Clarinda (17th century), pen name of an anonymous poet, author of Discurso en loor de la poesía
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- Julia Ferrer (1925–1995), poet
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- Doris Gibson (1910–2008), journalist, magazine publisher
- Teresa González de Fanning (1836–1918), essayist, journalist, feminist writer, women's rights activist
- Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818–1892), Argentine-born Peruvian freedom fighter, novelist, short story writer, newspaper founder
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- Ana María Llona Málaga (born 1936), poet
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- María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), feminist writer, historian, professor
- Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra (1844–1890), writer, poet, composer pianist
- Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909), novelist, biographer, essayist, translator
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- María Nieves y Bustamante (1871–1947), novelist, short story writer
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- Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy (born 1951), historian and university professor
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- Angélica Palma (1878–1935), novelist, biographer, journalist
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- Isabel Sabogal (born 1958), novelist, poet, translator
- Claudia Salazar Jiménez (born 1976), writer, editor, academic
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- Ana Varela Tafur (born 1963), poet and educator
- Gisela Valcárcel (born 1963), television host, actress, autobiographer, magazine publisher
- Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist
- Blanca Varela (1926–2009), widely translated poet
- Chalena Vásquez (1950–2016), ethnomusicologist
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- Julia Wong Kcomt (1965–2024), poet, novelist, short story writer