This is a list of women writers who were born in Latvia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
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Amanda Aizpuriete (born 1956), poet, translator, poetry translated into several languages Aspazija, pen name of Elza Pliekšāne, (1865–1943), poet, playwright, journalist, feminist
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Ingmāra Balode (born 1981), poet, translator
Vizma Belševica (1931–2005), widely translated poet, semi-autobiographical novelist Lija Brīdaka (1932–2022), poet Anna Brigadere (1861–1933), playwright, autobiographer
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Regīna Ezera, pen name of Regīna Šamreto (1930–2002), novelist, short story writer
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Maria Holm (1845–1912), poet, playwright, wrote in German
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Elfriede Jaksch (1842–1897), German-language novelist, short story writer
Ilze Jaunalksne (born 1976), journalist, television presenter
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Ivande Kaija (1876–1942), feminist, journalist, novelist
Mirdza Ķempe (1907–1974), poet, playwright, translator
Velga Krile (1945–1991), acclaimed poet, playwright
Monta Kroma (1919–1994), modernist poet
Marta Krūmiņa-Vitrupe (1908–2010), poet, essayist, chess player
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Nechama Leibowitz (1905–1997), Latvian-born biblical scholar, biblical studies in Hebrew
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Zenta Mauriņa (1897–1978), biographer, essayist, novelist, short story writer, wrote in Latvian and German
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Aīda Niedra (1899–1972), novelist and poet
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Margarita Perveņecka (born 1976), playwright, novelist
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Irina Saburova (1907–1979), Latvian-born Russian novelist, poet, journalist, translator Anna Sakse (1905–1981), writer, editor and translator Rūta Skujiņa (1907–1964), Latvian poet Margarita Stāraste-Bordevīka (1914–2014), children's writer Lelde Stumbre (born 1952), playwright
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Daina Taimina (born 1954), mathematician, acclaimed writings on mathematics
Velta Toma (1912–1999), poet
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (born 1937), President of Latvia, essayist, non-fiction writer, writings on folk songs