WMargarita Abella Caprile was an Argentine writer. Born in Buenos Aires, she was the daughter of Eduardo Abella and Margarita Caprile Mitre; and the great-granddaughter of General Bartolomé Mitre. She attended Colegio del Sagrado Corazon, Buenos Aires. Although she worked as a journalist and wrote travel books, novels, and short stories, she is known primarily as a poet. Since 1955, she replaced Eduardo Mallea as director of the literary supplement of the newspaper La Nación, where she worked until her death. Her contemporaries included Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Delmira Agustini, and Juana de Ibarbourou.
WSelva Almada is an Argentine writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. She expanded into nonfiction in 2014 with the book Chicas muertas.
WLiliana Bodoc was an Argentinian writer of fantasy.
WSilvina Bullrich was a best-selling Argentine novelist, as well as a translator, screenwriter, critic, and academic. She was known in Argentina as la gran burguesa.
WMariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
WLuisa Futoransky is an Argentine writer, scholar and journalist living in France.
WSara Gallardo Drago Mitre was an influential Argentine author and journalist.
WAngélica Gorodischer is an Argentine writer known for her short stories, which belong to a wide variety of genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, crime and stories with a feminist perspective.
WBeatriz Guido was an Argentine novelist and screenwriter.
WMarcela Iacub is an Argentine writer and jurist specializing in bioethics research, living in France. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him.
WSylvia Iparraguirre is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
WAlicia Kozameh is an Argentine novelist, short story writer and poet, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, at Chapman University in Southern California. Kozameh has published seven novels, a collection of short stories and three books of poetry. She has also edited two anthologies and wrote a book in collaboration with other authors, former political prisoners from the last Argentine military dictatorship in her country.
WNorah Lange was an Argentine author, associated with the Buenos Aires avant garde of the 1920s and 1930s.
WEduarda Damasia Mansilla Ortiz de Rozas de García (1834–1892) was a noted Argentine writer.
WMartha Evelina Mercader was an Argentine politician and writer, known for novels, short stories, essays and children's books.
WMaría Esther de Miguel was an Argentinian writer.
WMoira Ivana Millán, is a Mapuche activist from Argentina. She is one of the leaders of the indigenous ancestral lands recovery movement -particularly those occupied by the Benetton Group-, right recognized by the 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina. She participates in the feminist movement Ni una menos, denouncing the feminicide of indigenous women, and promotes in the "Women's Encounters" the greater visibility of the problem of indigenous women.
WElvira Amanda Orphée was an Argentine writer.
WClaudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province. She has won numerous literary prizes, among them the German LiBeraturpreis for Elena Sabe and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las grietas de Jara.
WSyria Poletti was an Argentine writer who specialized in children's literature.
WLucía Puenzo is an Argentine author, screenwriter and film director. She is the daughter of the Oscar-winning film director, producer, and screenplay writer, Luis Puenzo.
WReina Roffé is an Argentine writer. She was born in Buenos Aires. She studied journalism and literature at university. Her first novel, Llamado al Puf, won the Premio Pondal Ríos for the best work by a young author in 1973. For La rompiente, she received the Premio Internacional de Novela Breve awarded by the Municipality of San Francisco, Córdoba.
WAlicia Steimberg was an Argentine novelist.
WMarta Traba was an art critic and writer known for her contributions to Latin American art and literature.
WHebe Uhart was an Argentine writer. In 2017, she received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award.