List of Serbian women writers explained
This is a list of women writers who were born in Serbia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
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- Jelena Balšić (1365/1366–1443), her three epistles are part of the Gorički zbornik (Cyrillic: Горички зборник), a medieval manuscript collection (See: Jelena Lazarević)
- Anabela Basalo (born 1972), novelist, short-story writer
- Isidora Bjelica (born 1967), prose writer, playwright
- Marina Blagojević (1958–2020), writer on gender and feminism
- Milica Bodrožić, political history writer
- Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska (1870–1946), writer
- Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani (1710–1784), writer. This writer also holds a place in the Serbian literature of the 18th century.
- Anica Bošković (1714–1804), writer and poet. She's the sister of the famed physicist and scientist Roger Joseph Boscovich.
- Danica Bandić (1871–1950), writer (See also: Danica Bandić Telečki)
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- Elizabeth Christitch (1861–1933), Irish journalist, writer, poet, translator and Serbian patriot.
- Annie Christitch (1885–1977), Serbian journalist, patriot and women's rights activist.
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- Helen Losanitch Frothingham (1885–1972), best known for her Mission for Serbia: Letters from America and Canada, a collection of her letters during the six years she travelled doing war relief work during the First World War.
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- Branislava Ilić (born 1970), playwright, screenwriter, prose writer, essayist
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- Jelena Lazarević (1365–1443), writer
- Paulina Lebl-Albala (1891–1967), journalist, translator, literary critic
- Vladana Likar-Smiljanić (born 1943), correspondent
- Tamara Lujak (born 1976), science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, editor, journalist, short story writer, book reviewer
- Svetlana Lukić (born 1958), journalist
- Jelena Lozanić (See: Helen Losanitch Frothingham)
- Andjelija Lazarević (1885–1926), writer
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- Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), poet
- Jasmina Mihajlović (born 1960), writer and literary critic
- Princess Milica of Serbia (c. 1335 – 1405), poet, author of "A Mother's Prayer"
- Ognjenka Milićević (1927–2008), translator, essayist
- Mir-Jam (1887–1952), novelist
- Nadežka Mosusova (born 1928), non-fiction writer
- Zorica Mršević (born 1954), non-fiction writer on gender equality, violence, human rights, marginalized groups, and jurisprudence
- Ana Marija Marović (1815–1887), poet and painter
- Mara Đorđević-Malagurski (1894–1971), writer and ethnologist
- Milena Mrazović (1863–1927), Austro-Hungarian writer
- Maga Magazinović (1882–1968), journalist and writer
- Jelisaveta Marković (1868–1953), translator from French, Latin, Norwegian, and English
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- Eva Ras (born 1941), poet, short story writer, novelist
- Ana Ristović (born 1972), poet and translator
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- Anica Savić Rebac (1892–1953), translator, essayist, biographer
- Ljiljana Smajlović (born 1956), journalist, newspaper editor
- Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), poet
- Maša Stokić (born 1966), dramatist, drama critic
- Gordana Suša (1946–2021), journalist
- Staka Skenderova (1830–1891), Bosnian Serb writer
- Olivia Sudjic (born 1988), British novelist
- Isidora Sekulić (1877–1958), novelist
- Jela Spiridonović-Savić (1891–1974), poet and fiction writer
- Dubravka Sekulić (born 1980), author and architect
- Sofija Skoric (born 193?), cultural activist and author
- Ružica Sokić (1934–2013), actress and writer
- Svetlana Spajić (born 1971), cultural activist and translator
- Mirjana Stefanović (1939–2021), writer
- Jelena Skerlić Ćorović (1870–1960), writer and translator
- Andjelija Stančić (1865–1955), writer and translator
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