Antonine Maillet
ANTONINE MAILLET is a novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, and scholar. She earned her PhD in Literature in 1971 from the Université Laval. Her play La Sagouine gained attention in Acadian...
Aphra Behn
APHRA BEHN wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea and was one of the first English women to earn her living as an author, breaking cultural barriers and serving as a literary role model for...
Ariane Mnouchkine
Mnouchkine was a director, writer, and activist who was a significant and respected figure in French culture. Mnouchkine was born into an artistically-driven family: her father, a Russian-Jewish...
Aslaug Vaa
ASLAUG VAA was a poet and playwright born to a rural farmer. She traveled to Paris and Berlin in 1909 to study literature, philosophy, art history, and theater at various universities. After her...
Aspazija / Elza Pliekšāne
ELZA PLIEKSANE (Pliekšāne) whose pen name was ASPAZIJA, was a poet and playwright whose first piece of writing was published in a newspaper when she was 23. After a short marriage she moved to...
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Athalia Schwartz
ATHALIA SCHWARTZ was a Danish writer, journalist, playwright, and educator, who wrote under several pseudonyms, most notably Hieronymus. In 1847, Schwartz established a small girls' school in...
Augusta Jawara
AUGUSTA JAWARA was a playwright, nurse, and women’s rights activist. After studying nursing in Edinburgh, she became the first woman to stand in a Gambian national election in 1960, and by 1962,...
Auguste Götze
AUGUSTE GÖTZE was an actress, playwright, singer, and distinguished voice teacher. She was born into a musical family and at age seven started intensive piano and singing lessons. By 1861, when...