This is a list of Tanzanian writers.(This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.) * (1948–1992), short story writer * Mark Behr (1963– ), fiction writer also connected with South Africa * Fadhy Mtanga (1981– ) novelist, poet and photographer * Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948– ), novelist and critic * Ebrahim N. Hussein (1943– ), playwright, essayist, poet and translator * Prince Kagwema (1931– ), novelist * Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020), novelist, poet and scholar * Non fiction writer and trainer * , poet * Aniceti Kitereza (1896–1981), novelist * Elieshi Lema (1949– ), novelist, children's author and publisher * Amandina Lihamba (1944– ), playwright * , novelist and academic * Penina Mlama (1948– ), playwright * Sandra A. Mushi, ficti