Ana Hatherly (8 May 1929 – 5 August 2015) was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer.

[1] Hatherly was a professor of human and social sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she founded the university's Institute of Portuguese Studies.

[1] In 1958, she started her literary career with the publication of Um Ritmo Perdido, a collection of poems.

Her poetry books include Um Calculador de Improbabilidades (2001), O Pavão Negro (2003), Itinerários (2003), and Fibrilações (2005).

Hatherly has published poetry, essays, and fiction that have been translated into European languages, Japanese and Chinese.