Africa

Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

Bessie Head (South Africa)

Simi Bedford (Nigeria)

Akosua Busia (Ghana)

Flora Nwapa (Nigeria)

Rokhayatou Aminata Maïga Ka (Senegal)

Ken Bugul (Mariétou Mbaye) (Senegal)

Akissi Kouadio (Ivory Coast)

Michele Rokotoson (Madagascar)

Orlanda Amarylis (Cape Verde)

Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe)

Grace Birabwe Isharaza (Uganda)

Asenath Bole Odaga (Kenya)

Penina Mlama Muhando (Tanzania)

Sindiwe Magona (South Africa)

Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)

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Middle East

Alifa Rifaat (Egypt)

Sahar Khalifeh (Palestine)

Liana Badr (Palestine)

Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt)

Suheir Hammad (Palestine)

Fatima Mernissi (Morocco)

Assia Djebar (Algeria)

Fadia Faqir (Jordan)

Aicha Lemsine (Algeria)

Leila al-Atrash (Palestine)

Nathalie Handal (Palestine)

Nawal El-Sadawi (Egypt)

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Asia

Banana Yoshimoto (Japan)

Manju Kapur (India)

Ding Ling (China)

Kiran Desai (India)

Bharati Mukherjee (India)

Shashi Deshpande (India)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Malaysia)

Maxine Hong-Kingston (China)

Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan)

Lois Ann Yamanaka (USA/Japan)

Pasion Delgado (USA/Philippines)

Zhang Jie (China)

Wang Anyi (China)

Taslima Nasrin (Bangladesh)

Talat Abbasi (Pakistan)

Karen Tei Yamashita (Japan)

Tamai Kobayashi (Japan)

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West Indies

Judith Woolcock Colombo (Jamaica)

Hazel D. Campbell (Jamaica)

Joan Cambridge (Guyana)

Zoila Ellis (Belize)

Amryl Johnson (Trinidad and Tobago)

Merle Collins (Grenada)

Paule Marshall (Barbados)

Jean D'Costa (Jamaica)

Myriam Warner-Vieyra (Guadeloupe)

Althea Prince (or Althea Trotman) (Antigua)

Clara Rosa De Lima (Trinidad)

Norma DeHaarte (Guyana)

Lakshmi Persaud ( Trinidad)

Zee Edgell (Belize)

Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)

Jean Buffong (Grenada)

Louise Bennett (Jamaica)

Marlene Nourbese Phillip (Tobago)

Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica)

Simone Schwarz-Bart (Guadeloupe)

Lorna Goodison (Jamaica)

Merle Hodge (Trinidad and Tobago)

Beryl Gilroy (Guyana)

Gillian Foster (Jamaica)

Patricia Turnbull (British Virgin Islands)

Donna Hemans (Jamaica)

Danielle Legros-Georges (Haiti)

Patricia Powell (Jamaica)

Oonya Kempadoo (Guyana)

Michelle Cliff (Jamaica)

Roslyn Carrington (Trinidad and Tobago)

Dionne Brand (Trinidad and Tobago)

Jean Rhys (Dominica)

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Native America

Winona LaDuke (Anishinabe)

Mountain Wolf Woman (Winnebago)

Leslie Silko (Pueblo/Laguna)

Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)

Janet Campbell Hale (Cœur d'Alene)

Beth Brant (Mohawk)

Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna/Sioux)

Betty Louise Bell (Cherokee)

LeAnne Howe (Choctaw)

Misha Nogha (Cree)

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Latin America

Julia Álvarez (Dominican Reublic)

Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico)

Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Guatemala)

Sandra Cisneros (Mexico)

Laura Esquivel (Mexico)

Esmeralda Santiago (Puerto Rico)

Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico)

Margarita Engle (Cuba)

Carolina García-Aguilera (Cuba)

María Amparo Escondón (Mexico)

Ana Vecian Suárez (Cuba)

Montserrat Fontes (Mexico)

Sandra Benítez (Puerto Rico)

Denise Chávez (Chicana)

Ana Castillo (Chicana)

Yxta Maya Murray (Chicana)

Joyce Cavalcante (Brazil)

Mayra Montero (Cuba)

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Black America

Gayl Jones

Ntozake Shange

Breena Clarke

Octavia Butler

Alice Walker

Shay Youngblood

Venise Berry

Phyllis Alesia Perry

Toni Morrison

Patricia Jones

Kuwana Haulsey

Lorraine Hansberry

Maya Angelou

Bernice L. McFadden

Iyanla Vanzant

Nikki Giovanni

Margaret Johnson-Hodge

Bebe Moore Campbell

Marita Golden

Tananarive Due

Zora Neale Hurston

Sonia Sanchez

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Grace F. Edwards

Julie Dash

Lucinda Roy

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