List of Bolivian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Bolivia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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A

• Diego Aramburo (born 1971), actress, director ^[1] and playwright
• Beatriz Azurduy Palacios (1952–2003), film director, screenwriter, non-fiction writer ^[2]

B

• Yolanda Bedregal (1916–1999), poet, ^[3] novelist
• Nadezhda Bravo Cladera (born 1944), linguist, writer, educator

C

• Matilde Casazola (born 1942), poet, songwriter, awarded the Order of the Condor of the Andes ^[4]
• Carola Cobo (1909–2003), writer, theater and radio artist
• María Guadalupe Cuenca (1790–1854), letter writer
• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born 1949), Aymara feminist sociologist

F

• Hercilia Fernández de Mujía (1860–1929), poet and writer

G

• María Galindo (born 1964), activist, psychologist, screenwriter ^[5]
• Teresa Gisbert (1926–2018), architect, art historian, educator, ^[6] non-fiction writer ^[7]

J

• Dora Justiniano de la Rocha (1925–2016), Bolivian linguist, educator and poet ^[8]

M

• Rosa Julieta Montaño Salvatierra (born 1946), attorney, activist, non-fiction writer
• María Josefa Mujía (1812–1888), poet, Bolivia's first woman writer
• Hilda Mundy (1912–1980), writer, poet, journalist

R

• Centa Rek (born 1954), novelist, psychoanalyst, ^[9] politician
• Giovanna Rivero (born 1972), novelist and short story writer ^[10]
• Ana María Romero de Campero (1941–2010), politician, journalist, non-fiction writer

T

• Lola Taborga de Requena (1890–c.1950), modernist poet
• Gigia Talarico (born 1953), writer and poet ^[11]
• Ana Rosa Tornero (1907–1984), journalist, editor, women's rights activist
• María Cristina Trigo (1935–2014), writer and human rights activist

U

• Julia Urquidi (1926–2010), memoirist ^[12]

V

• Gaby Vallejo Canedo (1941–2024), novelist ^[13]
• Etelvina Villanueva y Saavedra (1897–1969), educator, feminist, writer, poet ^[14]

W

• Blanca Wiethüchter (1947–2004), poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist ^[15]

Z

• Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), acclaimed poet, feminist, educator ^[16]

References

1. Soruco, Jorge (2018-05-03). "La directora Diego Aramburo ya es mujer" [Director Diego Aramburo is Now a Woman]. La Razón (in Spanish). La Paz. Archived from the original on 2019-11-25. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
2. Seguí, Isabel (March 2021). "Beatriz Palacios: Ukamau's Cornerstone (1974–2003)". Latin American Perspectives . 48 (2): 77–92. doi:10.1177/0094582X20988693. hdl: 20.500.11820/2f773565-008e-43fc-b7c7-da56a7709da5 . ISSN   0094-582X . Retrieved 1 February 2024.
3. "Bolivian poet Yolanda Bedregal reading from her work". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
4. Machicado, Giannina (8 September 2022). "Matilde Casazola, 48 años de vigencia poética y musical". La Razón (La Paz) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
5. Rojas Medrano, July (2 October 2023). "María Galindo: "Yo voy a llevar ese debate hasta donde la gente quiera"". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 February 2024.
6. "Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa, Teresa (1926–)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28.
7. Bouysse-Cassagne, Thérèse (2018). "In Memoriam: Teresa Gisbert (1926 – 2018)". Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena. 50 (4): 529–532. ISSN   0716-1182 . Retrieved 1 February 2024.
8. Mendoza, José G. (2016). "DORA JUSTINIANO DE LA ROCHA (1925-2016): In memoriam". Lingüística (in Spanish). 32 (2): 131–131. doi: 10.5935/2079-312X.20160021 . ISSN   2079-312X.
9. García, Mara Lucy (2008). Escritoras bolivianas de hoy (1a ed.). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Editorial La Hoguera. pp. 145–158. ISBN   9789995431792.
10. García, Mara Lucy (2008). Escritoras bolivianas de hoy (1a ed.). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Editorial La Hoguera. pp. 159–166. ISBN   9789995431792.
11. García, Mara Lucy (2008). Escritoras bolivianas de hoy (1a ed.). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Editorial La Hoguera. pp. 167–173. ISBN   9789995431792.
12. Soldán, Edmundo Paz (12 March 2010). "Julia Urquidi, la inolvidable tía Julia de Vargas Llosa". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
13. García, Mara Lucy (2008). Escritoras bolivianas de hoy (1a ed.). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Editorial La Hoguera. pp. 175–176. ISBN   9789995431792.
14. Mamani, Elías Blanco (2005). "VILLANUEVA Y SAAVEDRA, Etelvina". Enciclopedia Gesta de Autores de la Literatura Boliviana (in Spanish). Plural Editores. pp. 202–203. ISBN   9990563624.
15. "Blanca Wiethüchter". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
16. "Three Poems by Adela Zamudio". Columbia Journal. Retrieved 1 February 2024.

See also

• List of women writers
• List of Spanish-language authors