Category
page 1South African women novelists
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer (1923–2014)

Olive Schreiner
South African author and pacifist (1855-1920)

Lauren Beukes
South African novelist
Bessie Emery Head
South African born Botswanan writer and teacher (1937–1986)
Elsa Joubert
South African writer (1922–2020)
Zoë Wicomb
South African author (1948–2025)
Miriam Tlali
South African novelist (1933–2017)
Marlene van Niekerk
South African author
Dalene Matthee
South African writer (1938–2005)
Dorothea Fairbridge
South African writer (1862-1931)
Wilma Stockenström
South African writer
Kopano Matlwa
South African writer
Margaret Bakkes
South African writer (1931–2016)
Pauline Smith
South African novelist (1882–1959)
Sheila Meiring Fugard
South African poet
Rachel Zadok
South African writer
Gillian Slovo
South African writer
Lindsey Collen
South African novelist
Lauretta Ngcobo
South African novelist and essayist.
Rose Zwi
South African writer (1928-2018)
Lesley Beake
South African children's author
Nadia Davids
South African playwright, novelist, and author

Diane Awerbuck
South African novelist
Henrietta Rose-Innes
South African novelist and short-story writer.

Sarah Gertrude Millin
South African writer (1889-1968)
Ceridwen Dovey
South African-Australian writer and anthropologist
Bree O'Mara
Irish-South African novelist, ballet dancer, TV producer.
Patricia Schonstein
South African writer and poet
Zukiswa Wanner
South African writer
Dricky Beukes
South African writer (1918–1999)
Lettie Viljoen
South African writer
Daphne Rooke
South African writer (1914–2009)
Ena Murray
South African writer (1936-2015)
Wilna Adriaanse
South African Afrikaans romantic fiction writer
Margie Orford
Novelist, journalist, film director, activist
Maxine Case
South African novelist, and short story writer
Farida Karodia
South African writer
Jann Turner
South African film director, novelist, television director and screenwriter (born 1964)
Joy Packer
South African writer
Tarryn Fisher
American novelist
Emma Huismans
Afrikaans writer, journalist, and activist
Irma Joubert
South African writer
Anne Landsman
South African writer
Barbara Adair
South African writer
Rozena Maart
South African writer, and professor (born 1962)
Mohale Mashigo
South African award-winning singer-songwriter, novelist, and former radio presenter
Sheila Gordon
American writer
Lauren Liebenberg
South African writer
Marita van der Vyver
South African writer

Judy Croome
South African writer

Anna M. Louw
South African Author
Rose Moss
South African writer
Lynn Freed
South African writer
Marie Linde
South African writer (1894-1963)
Yvette Christiansë
South African poet, novelist, scholar
Marie Warder
South African journalist, novelist and activist