WBessora is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages.
WJoanna Courtmans, born Joanna-Desideria Berchmans, was a Flemish writer.
WDiane Ducret is a Franco-Belgian writer. She has published both non-fiction historical books and novels. Much of her writing concerns the historical experiences of women, including studies of women who were closely associated with notorious dictators or gangsters. She has also written comedic fiction, and worked as a writer and host for historical television series.
WKristien Hemmerechts is a Belgian writer.
WRachida Lamrabet is a Moroccan-born Belgian writer and lawyer writing in Dutch.
WChristine Leunens is an American-born New Zealander-Belgian novelist. She is the author of Primordial Soup, Caging Skies, and A Can of Sunshine, which have been translated into over twenty languages. Caging Skies, the international bestselling novel about a child in the Hitler Youth, was the basis and inspiration for the award-winning film, Jojo Rabbit, by Taika Waititi, which won the Toronto International Film Festival's People Choice Award, and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
WBaroness Suzanne Lilar was a Flemish Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright writing in French. She was the wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice Albert Lilar and mother of the writer Françoise Mallet-Joris and the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar.
WMalika Madi is a Belgian novelist, living in La Louvière, Belgium.
WColette Nys-Mazure is a Belgian author writing in French.
WDominique Rolin was a Belgian novelist.
WHilde Vandermeeren is a Belgian author of books for children and young people and psychological thrillers.
WAnnelies Verbeke is a Belgian author who writes in Dutch. She made her name with the novel Slaap! (Sleep!) which has been translated into several languages.
WMarguerite Yourcenar was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.