List of Guatemalan women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Guatemala 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

• Angelina Acuña (1905–2006), poet specializing in the classical sonnet form
• Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano (born 1945), novelist, poet, journalist
• Margarita Azurdia (1931–1998), painter, sculptor, poet
• Ana Maria Rodas (1937), poet, narrator and essayist, is considered one of the great figures

C

• Margarita Carrera (1929–2018), poet, essayist, academic
• Rosina Cazali (born 1960), art critic, columnist
• Ana Cofiño (born 1955), researcher, anthropologist, editor, and historian

D

• Margaret A. Dix (born 1939), Jersey-born botanist, educator, scientific works on biology and the environment
• Marta Yolanda Díaz-Durán, journalist, educator

G

• Natalia Górriz (1868–?), biographer, non-fiction writer, pedagogue
• María Josefa García Granados (1796–1848), poet, journalist, early feminist

H

• Elisa Hall de Asturias (1900–1982) author, feminist

L

• Alcina Lubitch Domecq (born 1953), short story writer, now living in Israel

M

• Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959), Nobel Peace Prize winner, autobiographer
• Lucrecia Méndez (born 1943), educator, essayist, art critic
• Luisa Moreno (1907–1992), civil rights activist, pamphlet writer
• Lucrecia Méndez (born 1943), academic, literary critic
• Luz Méndez de la Vega (1919–2012) feminist writer, poet, journalist, academic, actress

P

• Dina Posada (born 1946), acclaimed Salvadoran-Guatemalan poet

R

• Ana María Rodas (born 1937), journalist, poet

S

• Magdalena Spínola, (1896–1991) poet, journalist, teacher

T

• Aida Toledo (born 1952), poet, short story writer, educator

V

• Vania Vargas (born 1978), poet, narrator, editor and cultural journalist

Z

• Carol Zardetto, contemporary novelist, theatre critic, author of Con pasión absoluta (2007)

See also

• List of women writers
• List of Spanish-language authors