But one.

The columnist, who happens to be a short story writer, has an account on Twitter .

Not a great one.

Great writer, great activist , great human being . Javed Akhtar ( Javedakhtarjadu) July 28, 2016 RIP Mahasweta Devi.

Do you prefer calling yourself a writer or activist?

To usher in a new, more hopeful era, Nigerians must prove themselves to be a citizenry worthy of it.

I call myself a writer and started filling the dotted lines for occupation with writer.

Mariam, a writer for Arab News, is dismayed by the potential charges

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer and feminist.

Rebel Spirits, another Palestinian author, expresses her emotion on Hazem's Blog It may be a calamitous morning like those I have grown accustomed to over a long time, but today is not like every day.

Sofi Oksanen (born January 7, 1977) is a Finnish contemporary writer.

I'm the founding editor and an Iranian American writer editor blogger who grew up in Los Angeles.

Our guest today is a Venezuelan blogger, who is also a writer, human rights activist, and an advocate.

As Yasmeen El Khoudary, fellow Global Voices author and co founder of the initiative, explained

Najat El Hachmi (born in Morocco on July 2, 1979) is a Moroccan Spanish writer.

But I write, and since I can not even imagine a life without writing, so I'm a writer.

I lately joined GV MENA family as an author and translator.

Female activists protest the detainment of a writer named Rania. Posted on Twitter by Girifna

Eeva Elisabeth Joenpelto (17 June 1921, Sammatti, Finland 28 January 2004, Lohja, Finland) was an award winning Finnish novelist.

Singer songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi serious song Clonie about creating the ultimate companion.

A great writer and extraordinary activist a woman with a warm, generous heart. Amitav Ghosh ( GhoshAmitav) July 28, 2016

Ketevan Katie Melua ( , born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian British singer, songwriter and musician.

Nuray Mert, born in Trabzon, Turkey (1960), is a Turkish journalist and political scientist.

Used with PRI's permission So with her sister Wiande, also a writer and their sister Kula, an artist, Moore set out to change that.

Saima Rauha Maria Harmaja (May 8, 1913, Helsinki April 21, 1937) was a Finnish poet and writer.

Agatha Christie was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.

Post author Mahsa Alimardani imagines playing Pokemon Go in in front of Azadi square in Tehran, holding the game up to a picture of the monument.

Doris Runge (born Carlow, July 15, 1943) is a German writer.

Betty Smith, née Elisabeth Wehner (December 15, 1896 January 17, 1972), was an American author.

Carrie Louise Hamilton (December 5, 1963 in New York City January 20, 2002, in Los Angeles) was an American actress, singer, and playwright.

Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism and, of course, passion in this talk.

Dan Braghis proposed to Global Voices Author, Sylwia Presley in a pitch session at Oxford Geeks event, OGN28, and she said yes!

Wayétu Moore, 30, is a Brooklyn based author who fled Liberia with her family when she was 5.

Huma Yusuf, who is a well known columnist for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, wrote in her analytical report published by the Norwegian Peacebuilding Rsource Center (NOREF.)

Restricting freedom of expression in Yemen continue. Another writer in Yemen is facing a severe attack slandering her and accusing her of disrespecting religion.

Émilie Simon (born 1978 in Montpellier, France) is a French singer, songwriter and composer of electronic music.

We all know that you're not only a blogger, but you also are a writer with an already published storybook, Cuentos en el Espejo (Stories in The Mirror).

And ironically, I think it's probably the single most important thing I possibly could have tattooed onto my body partly as a writer, but also just as a human being.

I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person, so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things.

Global Voices author Afef Abrougui tweeted Martyrs' Day full of tear gas 9avril tunisie

Marieluise Fleißer ( 23 November 1901, Ingolstadt 2 February 1974, Ingolstadt) was a German author and playwright.

She is the co author of Burning Country Syrians in Revolution and War with Robin Yassin Kassab, and a contributor to Khiyana Daesh, the Left and the Unmaking of the Syrian Revolution .

She is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera English and writes for Global Voices Online, where she is also on its board of directors as of 2011.

Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978) is an American blogger and feminist writer, founder of the Feministing blog in 2004.

I'm also quoted and I told the person who wrote the textbook I'm now quoted in that exact same university textbook in every Canadian university and college studies.