Aisha
Spanish poet circa 1000 CE
Spanish poet circa 1000 CE
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.
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.
New Zealand librarian and writer
Ngāti Porou shearer, performer, teacher, songwriter and cultural adviser
Irish teacher, author and charity worker
Irish journalist
Irish fiction writer and New Yorker columnist
Irish journalist and teacher
New Zealand nurse, community leader, writer and local politician