Taos Amrouche
Algerian writer and singer Taos Amrouche became the first modern Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947, the autobiographical Jacinthe noire. It is also one of the earliest novels published in French by a North African woman writer.
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Jean Devanny
A ‘vivid, valiant and temerarious’ woman, Jean Devanny overcame many of the obstacles to women achieving independence, and through her writings sought the same end for others.
Dorothy Neal White
New Zealand librarian and writer
Ngoi Pēwhairangi
Ngāti Porou shearer, performer, teacher, songwriter and cultural adviser
Máire MacSwiney Brugha
Irish teacher, author and charity worker
Veronica Guerin
Irish journalist
Maeve Brennan
Irish fiction writer and New Yorker columnist
Maeve Curtis
Irish journalist and teacher
Enid Tapsell
New Zealand nurse, community leader, writer and local politician
Shevawn Lynam
Irish administrator, author and linguist