World Women Writers (short list to start your summer reading):

Recently an important friend asked me for a list of writers to empower her political frustrations in our current world, afterwards I felt why not share the list with you:

Realists:

**1) Somaly Mam -- "Return to Lost Innocence" -- Cambodian Human Rights Activist

**2) Shirin Ebadi -- "Iran Awakening" -- Iranian Nobel Peace winner

3) Alma Guillermoprieto -- "Dancing with Cuba" Mexican-American

4) Nina Marie Martinez -- "Caramba" -- Mexican novelist

5) Elena Poniatowska -- "Here's to you, Jesusa" Polish-Mexican novelist

6) Tsitsi Dangarembga - "Nervous Condition" -- Zimbabwean novelist

7) Wangari Maathai -- "Unbowed" -- Kenyan Nobel Peace winner

8) Gioconda Belli -- "The Country Under My Skin" -- Nicaraguan novelist
9) Maxine Hong Kingston "Women Warrior" Chinese-American novelist
10) Leslie Feinberg "Stone Butch Blues" Transgendered Warrior

Surrealists:

1) Angela Carter "Passion of a New Eve"

2) Ingebord Bachmann "Malina"

3) Helen Zahavi -- "Dirty Weekend"

Male-Writer with Strong Female character:

1) Jorge Amado --"Tieta" -- Brazilian novelist

2) Tariq Ali -- "The Stone Woman" Pakistani novelist

3) Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- "The Girl from the Coast" Indonesian novelist

Essays not worth missing:

1) Inga Muscia -- "Cunt"

2) Eve Ensler -- "Insecure at Last"

Poets:

1) Audre Lorde

2) June Jordan

3) Adrienne Rich

More to Follow soon....