List of Bolivian women writers

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

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Diego Aramburo (born 1971), actress, director{{Cite news |url=https://la-razon.com/la_revista/cultura/directora-Diego-Aramburo-MUJER_0_2921707851.html |title=La directora Diego Aramburo ya es mujer |trans-title=Director Diego Aramburo is Now a Woman |first=Jorge |last=Soruco |newspaper=La Razón |location=La Paz |language=Spanish |date=2018-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125105232/https://la-razon.com/la_revista/cultura/directora-Diego-Aramburo-MUJER_0_2921707851.html |archive-date=2019-11-25 |url-status=dead |access-date=2020-06-08}} and playwright
Beatriz Azurduy Palacios (1952–2003), film director, screenwriter, non-fiction writer{{cite journal |last1=Seguí |first1=Isabel |title=Beatriz Palacios: Ukamau's Cornerstone (1974–2003) |journal=Latin American Perspectives |date=March 2021 |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=77–92 |doi=10.1177/0094582X20988693 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X20988693 |access-date=1 February 2024 |language=en |issn=0094-582X|hdl=20.500.11820/2f773565-008e-43fc-b7c7-da56a7709da5 |hdl-access=free }}

Yolanda Bedregal (1916–1999), poet,{{cite web |title=Bolivian poet Yolanda Bedregal reading from her work |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/93842419/?loclr=blogloc |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |access-date=1 February 2024}} novelist
Nadezhda Bravo Cladera (born 1944), linguist, writer, educator

Matilde Casazola (born 1942), poet, songwriter, awarded the Order of the Condor of the Andes{{cite news |last1=Machicado |first1=Giannina |title=Matilde Casazola, 48 años de vigencia poética y musical |url=https://www.la-razon.com/la-revista/2022/09/08/matilde-casazola-48-anos-de-vigencia-poetica-y-musical/ |access-date=1 February 2024 |work=La Razón (La Paz) |date=8 September 2022 |language=es}}
Carola Cobo (1909–2003), writer, theater and radio artist
María Guadalupe Cuenca (1790–1854), letter writer
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born 1949), Aymara feminist sociologist

María Galindo (born 1964), activist, psychologist, screenwriter{{cite news |last1=Rojas Medrano |first1=July |title=María Galindo: "Yo voy a llevar ese debate hasta donde la gente quiera" |url=https://www.lostiempos.com/oh/entrevista/20231002/maria-galindo-yo-voy-llevar-ese-debate-donde-gente-quiera |access-date=2 February 2024 |work=Los Tiempos |date=2 October 2023 |language=es}}
Teresa Gisbert (1926–2018), architect, art historian, educator,{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2588809155.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328150122/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2588809155.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-03-28|chapter=Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa, Teresa (1926–)}} non-fiction writer{{cite journal |last1=Bouysse-Cassagne |first1=Thérèse |title=In Memoriam: Teresa Gisbert (1926 – 2018) |journal=Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena |date=2018 |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=529–532 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26667930 |access-date=1 February 2024 |issn=0716-1182}}

Dora Justiniano de la Rocha (1925–2016), Bolivian linguist, educator and poet{{Cite journal |last=Mendoza |first=José G. |date=2016 |title=DORA JUSTINIANO DE LA ROCHA (1925-2016): In memoriam |url=http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2079-312X2016000200009 |journal=Lingüística |language=es |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=131–131 |doi=10.5935/2079-312X.20160021 |issn=2079-312X}}

Rosa Julieta Montaño Salvatierra (born 1946), attorney, activist, non-fiction writer
María Josefa Mujía (1812–1888), poet, Bolivia's first woman writer
Hilda Mundy (1912–1980), writer, poet, journalist

Centa Rek (born 1954), novelist, psychoanalyst,{{cite book |last1=García |first1=Mara Lucy |title=Escritoras bolivianas de hoy |date=2008 |publisher=Editorial La Hoguera |location=Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |isbn=9789995431792 |pages=145–158 |edition=1a}} politician
Giovanna Rivero (born 1972), novelist and short story writer{{cite book |last1=García |first1=Mara Lucy |title=Escritoras bolivianas de hoy |date=2008 |publisher=Editorial La Hoguera |location=Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |isbn=9789995431792 |pages=159–166 |edition=1a}}
Ana María Romero de Campero (1941–2010), politician, journalist, non-fiction writer

Lola Taborga de Requena (1890–c.1950), modernist poet
Gigia Talarico (born 1953), writer and poet{{cite book |last1=García |first1=Mara Lucy |title=Escritoras bolivianas de hoy |date=2008 |publisher=Editorial La Hoguera |location=Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |isbn=9789995431792 |pages=167–173 |edition=1a}}
Ana Rosa Tornero (1907–1984), journalist, editor, women's rights activist
María Cristina Trigo (1935 – 30 December 2014), writer and human rights activist

Julia Urquidi (1926–2010), memoirist{{cite news |last1=Soldán |first1=Edmundo Paz |title=Julia Urquidi, la inolvidable tía Julia de Vargas Llosa |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2010/03/12/necrologicas/1268348402_850215.html |access-date=1 February 2024 |work=El País |date=12 March 2010 |language=es}}

Gaby Vallejo Canedo (24 September 1941 – 20 January 2024), novelist{{cite book |last1=García |first1=Mara Lucy |title=Escritoras bolivianas de hoy |date=2008 |publisher=Editorial La Hoguera |location=Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |isbn=9789995431792 |pages=175–176 |edition=1a}}
Etelvina Villanueva y Saavedra (1897–1969), educator, feminist, writer, poet{{cite book|last=Mamani|first=Elías Blanco|title=Enciclopedia Gesta de Autores de la Literatura Boliviana|year=2005|publisher=Plural Editores|isbn=9990563624|pages=202–203|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lB8Zraveic8C&dq=Etelvina%20Villanueva%20y%20Saavedra&pg=PA202|language=Spanish|chapter=VILLANUEVA Y SAAVEDRA, Etelvina}}

Blanca Wiethüchter (1947–2004), poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist{{cite web |title=Blanca Wiethüchter |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/no91024503/blanca-wiethuchter-bolivia-1947-2004/ |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |access-date=1 February 2024}}

Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), acclaimed poet, feminist, educator{{cite web |title=Three Poems by Adela Zamudio |url=https://www.columbiajournal.org/articles/2022-three-poems |website=Columbia Journal |access-date=1 February 2024}}