24 Spanish women short story writers

Rosario de Acuña y Villanueva de la Iglesia, better known by the short name Rosario de Acuña and the masculine pseudonym used for her writings, Remigio Andrés Delafón was a Spanish author of dramas, essays, short stories, and poetry.

Caterina Albert i Paradís, better known by her penname Víctor Català, was a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish who participated in the Modernisme movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre, Solitud (Solitude) (1905). Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Florals prize; soon thereafter, she began using the pseudonym Victor Català, taking it from the protagonist of a novel she never finished. Despite her success as a dramatist and her forays into poetry, she is best known for her work in narrative literature, with the force of her style and the richness of her diction being especially noted. She died in her hometown of l’Escala, Catalonia, in 1966 and is interred in the Cementiri Vell de l’Escala.

Núria Añó is a Catalan writer, a translator, and a speaker at conferences and symposia, where she gives papers on literary creation or authors like Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel, Franz Werfel, Karen Blixen or Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Maria Barbal is a Catalan writer.

Nuria Barrios is a Spanish writer. She was born in Madrid. Her work spans genres, including both fiction and non-fiction.

Nuria Calderón García-Botey, known professionally as Nuria C. Botey, is a Spanish fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer.

Mercedes Cebrián is a Spanish writer and translator.

Paula Contreras Márquez was a novelist and author of short stories and tales.

Amalia Domingo Soler was a Spanish writer, novelist, and feminist, who also wrote poetry, essays, short stories, as well as an autobiography, Memorias de una mujer. She is known for her involvement in the Spanish spiritist movement. Her writings are characterized by poetic and delicate style. She is remembered for her book "Memories of Father Germano". She also founded and edited a spiritist weekly, La Luz del Porvenir, characterized by its radical views and feminist orientation.

María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo was a Spanish author of children's literature who wrote under the pen name Elena Fortún. She became famous for Celia, lo que dice the first in the series of children's novels which were a collection of short stories first published in magazines in 1929. The series were both popular and successful during the time of their publications and are today considered classics of Spanish literature.

Isabel Franc is a Spanish writer who signs some of her novels with the pseudonym Lola Van Guardia.

Laura Freixas is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist.

Maria de la Pau Janer is a writer from Spain who works in Spanish and Catalan. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Ramon Llull Novel Award.

Ángela Labordeta is a Spanish writer and journalist.

Sara Mesa is a Spanish writer. Born in Madrid, she has lived in Seville since childhood. As a poet, she won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Miguel Hernández in 2007 for Este jilguero agenda. Since then, she has published the novels Un incendio invisible and El trepanador de cerebros, and the short story collections No es fácil ser verde and La sobriedad del galápago. Her novel Cuatro por cuatro was nominated for the Premio Herralde.

Anna Murià i Romaní was a Spanish narrator, translator, literary critic, and journalist of Catalan descent who wrote short stories, novels, children's literature, and essays. A feminist activist, Murià i Romaní served as secretary of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, was a founding member of the Grup Sindical d'Escriptors Catalans, and was an Honorary Member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.

Elvira Navarro Ponferrada is a Spanish writer.

Marisol Ortiz de Zárate is a Spanish writer specializing in children's literature.

Marta Portal Nicolás was a Spanish writer, critic, journalist, and professor associated with the Generation of '50. She was a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.

Carmen Posadas is a prize-winning Uruguayan-Spanish author of books for children. She also writes for film and television. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.

Eugenia Rico is a Spanish novelist, poet and journalist.

Blanca de los Ríos Nostench was a Spanish writer and painter.

Elena Fernández Gómez, known by the pen name Elena Santiago, is a Spanish writer, the recipient of honors such as the Rosa Chacel Award, the 1999 Province of Valladolid Literary Prize, and the Castile and León Award for Letters.

Arantxa Urretabizkaia Bejarano, is a contemporary Basque writer, screenwriter and actress. She was born in Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco.