Houda Darwish (Arabic: هدى درويش) is an Algerian novelist, poet, writer, and women's rights activist.

[2] According to Abdel Madjid Djaber, a Palestinian critic and academician, she is a "charming lady of Algerian literature.".

Because of her family situation, she was opened up to a wide variety of cultures and a mix between the Arabic and French literature.

At the age of sixteen, once she settled down in Cairo, Darwish presented her first novel titled "Amal...A Love Looking for a Homeland" (In Arabic: آمال... حب يبحث عن وطن[6]).

Justifying her transition between poetry and prose, the ex editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf, Essam Abdel-Aziz, said "Houda Darwish is a creative woman whose writing made us come back to the belle epoque.