This is a list of women writers who were born in

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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* Bisera Alikadić (born 1939), poet, novelist, children's writer

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* Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar (born 1951), novelist, poet, playwright, young adults writer

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Umihana Čuvidina Umihana Čuvidina ( – ) was a Bosnian poet of Ottoman times. She is the earliest Bosnian female author whose work survives to this day. Čuvidina sang her poems and contributed greatly to the traditional genre of Bosniak folk music, sevdalin ...

(c.1794–c.1870), early poet, songwriter

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Zlata Filipović Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980) is a Bosnian-Irish diarist. She kept a diary from 1991 to 1993 when she was a child helping in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. She and her family survived the war and moved to Paris where they lived for ...

(born 1980), diarist, non-fiction writer, author of '' Zlata's Diary''

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* Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić (1932–1995), children's writer, poet, textbook writer

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* Senka Marić (born 1972), poet and novelist * Ognjenka Milićević (1927–2008), biographer, essayist, translator

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* Ljubica Ostojić (1945–2021), poet, playwright, short story writer, critic, educator *

Téa Obreht Téa Obreht (born Tea Bajraktarević; 30 September 1985) is a Serbian-American novelist. Her debut novel, '' The Tiger's Wife'',Hamilton, Ted (25 March 2009)"Student Artist Spotlight: Tea Bajraktarevic"(interview). ''Cornell Daily Sun''. Archived ...

(born 1985), American-Bosniak novelist, author of ''

The Tiger's Wife ''The Tiger's Wife'' is the debut novel of Serbian-American writer Téa Obreht. It was published in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British imprint of Orion Books, and by Random House in America. Obreht won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction fo ...

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* Staka Skenderova (c.1830–1891), first woman author published in Bosnia * Tanja Stupar-Trifunović (born 1977), poet and novelist, winner of 2017 European Union Prize for Literature

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{{Lists of women writers by nationality - Bosnian and Herzegovinian women writers, List of Women writers, List of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Women writers, List of Bosnian and Herzegovinian

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