title: List of Lithuanian women writers
text: # List of Lithuanian women writers
  
  This is a list of women writers who were born in Lithuania or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
  
  ## A
  
  * Gintarė Adomaitytė (born 1957), journalist
  * Loreta Anilionytė, philosopher, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist, since 2000
  * Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz (1909–1998), Lithuanian-born Hebrew children's writer
  * Magdalena Avietėnaitė (1892–1984), journalist, diplomat and a public figure
  
  ## B
  
  * Ona Baliukonė (1948–2007), poet, essayist, painter
  
  ## C
  
  * Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė (born 1976), playwright, novelist
  * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (born 1929), scholar, translator
  
  ## G
  
  * Ona Galdikaitė (1898–1990), Lithuanian nun, poet and dissident writer, theological translator
  * Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), Lithuanian-American translator, non-fiction writer, writings in German and English on archaeology, Lithuanian culture
  * Emma Goldman (1869–1940), Lithuanian-born Russian-American memoirist, autobiographer, publisher, anarchist
  * Aldona Gustas (born 1932), Lithuanian-born German-language poet, illustrator, feminist, works translated into several languages
  
  ## H
  
  * Esther Hautzig (1930–2009), Lithuanian-born American, author of the autobiographical work The Endless Steppe
  
  ## I
  
  * Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961–2007), novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, some works translated into English
  
  ## J
  
  * Vidmantė Jasukaitytė (born 1948), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
  * Vanda Juknaitė (born 1949), playwright, novelist, memoirist
  
  ## K
  
  * Ugnė Karvelis (1935–2002), novelist, translator, publisher, editor
  
  ## L
  
  * Marija Lastauskienė (1872–1957), novelist, short story writer, journalist, frequently writing jointly with her sister under the pen name Lazdynų Pelėda, wrote in Polish and Lithuanian
  * Meilė Lukšienė (1913–2009), writings on education and Lithuanian culture
  
  ## M
  
  * Edita Mildažytė (born 1966), journalist, talk show host
  * Miriam Mosessohn (1841–1920), Lithuanian-born Hebrew-language translator of German novels
  
  ## N
  
  * Salomėja Nėris, pen name of Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė (1904–1945), acclaimed poet
  
  ## P
  
  * Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė (1861–1943), journalist, novelist, short story writer, playwright
  * Sofija Pšibiliauskienė (1867–1926), wrote jointly with her sister Marija Lastauskienė under the pen name Lazdynų Pelėda, journalist, short story writer, novelist, usually writing in Polish
  * Paulina Pukytė (born 1966), artist, poet, essayist, critic
  
  ## R
  
  * Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (born 1960), journalist, short story writer
  * Undinė Radzevičiūtė (born 1967), novelist, worked in advertising
  
  ## S
  
  * Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (born 1974), art historian, historical novelist, short story writer
  * Šatrijos Ragana (Witch of Šatrija), pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė (1877–1930), short story writer, novelist, translator
  * Ieva Simonaitytė (1897–1978), historical novelist, works often subjected to Soviet censorship
  
  ## V
  
  * Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936), archaeologist
  * Indrė Valantinaitė (born 1984), poet, singer
  
  ## Z
  
  * Žemaitė, pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė (1845–1921), novelist, short story writer
  