Women storytellers

South African writer and anti-apartheid activist

Indian singer (born 1976)

German market merchant and fairy tale teller, contributor to the Brothers Grimm's collection of fairy tales (1755–1816)

storyteller and performer of burra katha, an oral tradition from South India

popular Carnatic musician

Erzya storyteller (1867-1936)

Spanish writer, poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist, and columnist (1845-1919)

Irish writer (1873–1958)

Motswana artist, storyteller and translator (1934–2008)

Catalan poet and writer

Italian singer (1927-1990)

Russian folklorist and collector of fairy tales (1874–1931)

Palestinian writer, ethnographer and academic (born 1955)

Cree chief, tale-teller, author

Argentinian writer, feminist and anarchist (1894-1972)

storyteller, folklore performer (1843-1924)

Argentine poet, writer, critic and translator (1933–2004)

Storyteller, author

British singer and musician

Storyteller, folklore performer

children's writer and poet

Storyteller, folklore performer

19th c. storyteller and maid

writer and storyteller