Ukrainian Women Writers

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

A

*Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer, translator
*Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948), Ukrainian-born Belarusian novelist, journalist, works translated into English
*Emma Andijewska (born 1931), poet, short story writer, novelist, some works translated into English
* Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998), translator, journalist, writings in Esperanto
* Sofia Andrukhovych (born 1982), novelist, translator
* Hanna Arsenych-Baran (1970–2021), novelist, poet and prose writer
*Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), Ukrainian-born German-language poet

B

* Nina Bichuya (born 1937), novelist, children's writer
* Anna Bagriana (born 1981), novelist, poet, playwright, translator
* Oleksandra Bandura (1917–2010), teacher, literature scholar, writer
*Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), diarist, painter, sculptor
*Natalia Belchenko (born 1973), poet, translator
*Nella Bielski (1930s–2020), Ukrainian-born French novelist, actress
* Natalka Bilotserkivets (born 1954), poet, translator
* Inna Bulkina (1963–2021), literary critic and editor

C

* Dniprova Chayka, pen name of Liudmyla Vasylevska (1861–1927), poet, short story writer, translator, wrote in Russian and Ukrainian, some works translated into English
* Olena Chekan (1946–2013), film, stage and television actress, voice artist, television screenwriter and editor, political journalist and social activist, columnist, short story writer, essayist, humanist and feminist
* Daria Chubata (born 1940), Ukrainian physician, writer, poet
* Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971) Ukrainian poet, novelist, writer, playwright

D

* Anastasia Dmitruk (born 1991), poet, writing in Russian and Ukrainian
*Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987), Ukrainian-born Russian-American, historical writings on Marxism and feminism, author of '' Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today''
*Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Ukrainian-born Russian-American non-fiction writer, co-author of ''The Story of Civilization'' with her husband Will Durant
* Bohdana Durda (born 1940), writer, poet, songwriter
* Maryna Dyachenko (born 1968), novelist, short story writer together with her husband Serkiy Dyachenko

G

* Lydia Grigorieva (born 1945), poet, photographer, now living in London
*Alyona Anatolievna Gromnitskaya (born 1975), poet and political spokesperson
*Nataliya Gumenyuk (born 1983) Ukrainian journalist, writer

H

* Lyubov Holota (born 1949), novelist, poet, journalist, children's writer
* Hrytsko Hryhorenko, pen name of Oleksandra Sudovshchykova-Kosach (1867–1924), poet, short story writer, translator, poetry in Ukrainian, Russian and French
* Maryna Hrymych (born 1961), novelist, non-fiction writer, historian, translator
*Tamara Hundorova (born 1955), literary critic and culturologist

I

*Svetlana Ischenko (born 1969), poet, actress, translator, now living in Canada
*Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997), children's writer and translator

K

*Iryna Kalynets (1940–2012), poet, educator, human rights activist
*Vera Kamsha (born 1962), Ukrainian-born Russian journalist, fantasy novelist
*Iya Kiva (born 1984), poet, translator, journalist, critic
* Marianna Kiyanovska (born 1973), poet, translator and literary scholar
* Nataliya Kobrynska (1851–1920), short story writer, editor, feminist
*Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942), novelist, poet, playwright, feminist
*Sonya Koshkina (born 1985), journalist, editor-in-chief
*Lina Kostenko (born 1930), popular poet, children's writer, known for her historical novel in verse
* Yevheniia Kucherenko (1922–2020), writer and pedagogue

L

*Salcia Landmann (1911–2002), writings in German in support of the Yiddish language, non-fiction writer
*Marina Lewycka (born 1946), British writer of Ukrainian origin, novelist, author of ''A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian''
*Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist, journalist, short story writer
* Lera Loeb (born c. 1979–1980), Ukrainian born American fashion blogger and publicist
* Lada Luzina (born 1972), pseudonym of Vladislava Kucherova, Ukrainian Russian-language author and former journalist

M

* Olesya Mamchich (born 1981), poet, children's writer
* Maria Matios (born 1959), poet, novelist, some works translated into English
* Dzvinka Matiyash (born 1978), writer, poet, children's author and translator
* Anastasia Melnichenko (born 1984), journalist
*Kateryna Mikhalitsyna (born 1982), poet, children's writer, translator and editor

N

*Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), Ukrainian-born French-language novelist, biographer, author of '' Suite française''

O

* Margarita Ormotsadze (born 1981), journalist, poet, novelist, non-fiction writer on economics

P

*Atena Pashko (1931–2012), chemical engineer, poet, social activist
*Olena Pchilka (1849–1930), acclaimed poet, publisher, novelist, playwright, feminist
*Halyna Petrosanyak (born 1969), poet, writer and translator
* Mariyka Pidhiryanka (1881–1963), poet, remembered mainly for her poems for children
* Svitlana Pyrkalo (born 1976), journalist, columnist, novelist, essayist

S

* Mariana Savka (born 1973), poet, children's writer, translator and publisher
*Iryna Senyk (1926–2009), poet
* Iryna Shuvalova (born 1986), poet, translator and scholar
*Lyubov Sirota (born 1956), poet, playwright, essayist, author of the Chernobyl Poems
* Żanna Słoniowska (born 1978), novelist

T

*Olena Teliha (1906–1942), poet, literary activist
*Liudmila Titova, Jewish-Ukrainian poet remembered for her 1941 poem on the massacre of Ukrainian Jews
*Nika Turbina (1974–2002), Russian-language poet, writing while still a small child, several poems translated into English

U

*Lesya Ukrainka, pen name of Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (1871–1913), celebrated poet, playwright, essayist, some works translated into English

V

* Iryna Vilde, pen name of Dary′na Dmy′trivna Makoho′n (1907–1982), short story writer, novelist
*Marko Vovchok, pen name of Mariya Vilinska (1833–1907), prominent short story writer, novelist, translator, wrote in Ukrainian and Russian
* Vira Vovk, pen name of Vira Ostapivna Selianska (1926–2022), poet, novelist, playwright, translator, now living in Brazil

Y

*Tetiana Yakovenko (born 1954), poet, literary critic, teacher
* Lyubov Yanovska (1861–1933), short story writer, playwright, novelist
* Yevheniya Yaroshynska (1868–1904), short story writer, translator, wrote in German and Ukrainian

Z

*Oksana Zabuzhko (born 1960), poet, novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer
*Iryna Zhylenko (1941–2013), poet, essayist, some of her poems translated into English

See also

*List of women writers

References

{{Lists of women writers by nationality

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