Anna M. Louw (31 December 1913 – 12 June 2003) was a South African author. She was born in Calvinia in a so-called "Nagmaalhuis" (Sunday House, for an outlying family attending church). Her father was a sheep farmer near Calvinia on the farm Soetwater and her mother was a teacher on a farm school in the district. Louw shares family ties with South African authors NP van Wyk Louw, WEG Louw, George Louw, Peter Louw, Rona Rupert, Charles Fryer, Willem Steenkamp, Johnita le Roux, Nico Louw and Pieter Strauss. Kroniek van Perdepoort was translated into Dutch by Rob van der Veer.