Description: From Zadie Smith to Carmen Aguirre, these writers are setting the literary world on fire — and they're ones you'll want to read.
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Two centuries ago, Jane Austen was scribbling novels on napkins during dinners. Charlotte and Emily Brontë published Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in the mid-1850s under male pseudonyms. Writing — and publishing — used to be a world reserved for men. But we’ve come a long way since then.
To celebrate International Women’s Day with the rest of the world, we’re taking some time to focus on some of the foremost women's voices in contemporary writing. From Zadie Smith to Carmen Aguirre, these authors are ones we love for their original, funny, and always incisive use of words. Have a look at these 9 women — writing in 7 different genres — whose books you won’t be able to put down, and whose voices you won't want to forget.