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List of novelists

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:

See also the list of novelists by genre

Argentina
- Ricardo Güiraldes[?], (1886-1927) Don Segundo Sombra[?]

Australia
- Jessica Anderson[?]
- Thea Astley[?]
- Murray Bail
- Carmel Bird[?]
- Rolf Boldrewood
- Lily Brett[?], author of Just Like That (1994)
- Peter Carey
- Marcus Clarke
- James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly[?] among others), author of Shogun
- Greg Egan, science fiction
- Richard Flanagan[?]
- David Foster[?]
- Miles Franklin[?]
- Joseph Furphy
- Helen Garner[?]
- Peter Goldsworthy[?]
- Kerry Greenwood[?]
- Kate Grenville[?]
- Xavier Herbert[?]
- Dorothy Hewett[?]
- George Johnston[?]
- Elizabeth Jolley[?]
- Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark[?] (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates[?] (1979)
- Frank Moorhouse[?]
- Gerald Murnane[?]
- Henry Handel Richardson
- Nevil Shute
- Christina Stead, author of The Man Who Loved Children[?] (1940)
- Patrick White, Nobel Prize for Literature (1973), noted for his examinations of his native land
- Tim Winton[?]
- Amy Witting[?]

Austria (see also German literature)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ivo Andric, (1892-1975)

Brazil
- Paulo Coelho, (1947- )

Canada (see also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers)
- Grant Allen, (1848 - 1899), author of The Woman Who Did (1895)
- Margaret Atwood, (1939- ), author of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Pierre Berton, (1920- )
- Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990) author of Strange Fugitive[?] (1928)
- Wayson Choy, (1939- )
- Douglas Coupland,
- Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author of Fifth Business[?]
- C. J. Everon, (1971- ) (See also France)
- Timothy Findley (1930-2002) (See also France)
- Mavis Gallant, (1922- ) (See also France)
- Arthur Hailey, (1920- ), indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel[?] (1965), Airport[?] (1968)
- Jack Hodgins
- Nancy Huston, (1953- ) (See also France)
- Robert N.Kucey, (1940- )
- Hugh MacLennan,
- Margaret Laurence[?],
- Stephen Leacock
- Malcolm Lowry, (1909-1957), author of Under the Volcano (1947)
- Alistair MacLeod, (1936- )
- Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi", 2002 Booker Prize
- Rohinton Mistry, (1952- )
- Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942)
- Susanna Moodie[?], (1803-1885)
- Tara Moss[?] (1973- ), author of Fetish
- Farley Mowat
- Alice Munro[?], (1931- )
- Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ), author of The English Patient (1993)
- Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz[?] (1959)
- David Adams Richards, (1950- )
- Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)
- Carol Shields, (1935- )
- Elizabeth Smart, (1913-1986)
- Catherine Parr Traill[?], (1802-1899)
- Jane Urquhart, (1949- )

Catalan
Raimon Llull, (1235-1315), author of Libre de meravelles[?]
- Ramon Muntaner, (circa 1270-1336), author of Cronica[?]
- Joanot Martorell, (1413-1468), author of Tirant lo Blanch[?]
- Narcís Oller, (1846-1930), author of La febre d'or[?]
- Mercè Rodoreda, (1909-1983), author of La plaça del diamant[?]

China (see also: Chinese literature)
- Lao She, (1899-1966), author of Si Shi Tong Tang[?]
- Zhang Ailing, (1920-1995), female romantic story writer
- Qian Zhongshu, (1910-1998), author of "Wei Cheng[?]
- Lu Xun, (1881-1936), author of The True Story of Ah Q[?]
- Mao Dun, (1896-1981), author of Zi Ye

Colombia
- Gabriel García Márquez, (1928- ), author of One Hundred Years of Solitude[?] (1967), Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), journalist, publisher, avatar of magical realism
- José Eustasio Rivera[?], (1888-1928), author of La vorágine[?]

Cosmopolitan[?]
- Romain Gary, Russian-born French writer
- Franz Kafka, (1883-1924) lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature
- Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
- Milan Kundera, (1929- ) born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer[?].
- Salman Rushdie, (1947- ) born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, placed under fatwah (death sentence) by Muslim clerics

Czech Republic (see also: Literature of the Czech Republic)
- Karel Capek, (1890-1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
- Jaroslav Hasek, (1883-1923), author of The Good Soldier Schweik[?]
- Vaclav Havel, (1936- President of Czech Republic (1993-2003) and famous playwright.
- Bohumil Hrabal, (1914-1997), author of Closely Watched Trains[?], died trying to feed pigeons.
- Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1984)

Denmark (see also: Danish Literature)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
- Isak Dinesen, (1885-1962) (real name: Karen Blixen), author of Seven Gothic Tales[?] (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873-1950)
- Peter Kjaerulff
Egypt
- Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy[?] about life in the sprawling inner city.

England

See: List of novelists by country: England

Finland
- Tove Jansson, (1914-2001) she wrote in Swedish
- Aino Kallas[?], (1878-1956), female
- Aleksis Kivi, (1834-1872)
- Väinö Linna, (1920-1992)
Frans Emil Sillanpää, (1888-1964), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1939)
- Mika Waltari, (1908-1979)

France

See: List of novelists by country: France

(see also: French literature)

Germany (see also German literature)
- Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), polymath.
- Günter Grass, (1927- )
- Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game[?], Steppenwolf
- Siegfried Lenz[?], (1926- )
- Thomas Mann, (1875-1955)
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues[?], or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Patrick Süskind[?] (1949- ), author of Perfume

Hungary
- György Dalos, (1943- )
- Mór Jókai[?], (1825-1904)
- István Örkény[?], (1912-1979)

Iceland
- Snorri Sturluson, (1179-1241), author of the Younger Edda
- Halldor Laxness, (1903-1998)

India
- Salman Rushdie, (1947- ), of the fatwa fame.
- R K Narayan, (1906-2001)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908-1994)

Ireland
- Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989)
- Brendan Behan[?], (1923-1964)
- Thomas Flanagan[?], (1923-2002)
- James Joyce, (1882-1941), author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
- Flann O'Brien[?], At Swim-Two-Birds[?]
- Brian O'Nolan[?], (1911-1966) better known as Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gcopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn...
- Laurence Sterne, (1713-1768) played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries before Postmodernism was invented.
- Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) author of biting satires. Gulliver's Travels was Bowdlerised into a children's book[?].
- Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), also a playwright, imprisoned for homosexual acts

Israel
- Amos Oz[?], author of Black Box, My Michael
- A. B. Yehoshua[?], author of Mr. Mani

Italy
- Riccardo Bacchelli[?]
- Alessandro Baricco[?]
- Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra[?] (1985) is most popular work in English
- Alberto Bevilacqua[?]
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Vitaliano Brancati[?]
- Gesualdo Bufalino[?]
- Aldo Busi[?]
- Dino Buzzati
- Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
- Luigi Capuana[?]
- Andrea Camilleri[?]
- Carlo Cassola[?]
- Carlo Collodi
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, revolutionary
- Massimo D'Azeglio[?]
- Grazia Deledda
- Giuseppe Dessi[?]
- Umberto Eco
- Carlo Emilio Gadda[?]
- Natalia Ginzburg[?]
- Primo Levi, resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
- Emilio Lussu
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Dacia Maraini[?]
- Elsa Morante[?]
- Alberto Moravia[?]
- Cesare Pavese[?]
- Luigi Pirandello, playwright, Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Vasco Pratolini[?]
- Salvatore Satta[?]
- Alberto Savinio[?]
- Leonardo Sciascia[?]
- Ignazio Silone[?]
- Mario Soldati[?]
- Italo Svevo
- Susanna Tamaro[?]
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
- Giovanni Verga[?]
- Elio Vittorini[?]

Japan (see also Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors)
- Kobo Abe (1924-1993) The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, (1892-1927), Rashomon
Osamu Dazai, (1909-1948), No Longer Human, Melos, Run!
- Fumiko Enchi[?] (1905-1986) A Tale of False Fortunes, The Waiting Years
- Shusaku Endo[?], (1923-1996) Silence, Deep River
- Ichiyo Higuchi[?], (1872-1896) Child's Play, The Thirteenth Night
- Masuji Ibuse[?], (1898-1993) Black Rain
- Yasunari Kawabata[?] (1899-1972) Snow Country, The Izu Dancer (Winner of the Nobel Prize, 1968)
Yukio Mishima, (1925-1970), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask
- Kenji Miyazawa[?], (1896-1933) Night Train to the Stars, Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Ogai Mori, (1862-1922), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
Soseki Natsume, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
- Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize, 1994)
- Junichiro Tanizaki[?] (1886-1965) Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters

Kenya
- Ngugi wa Thiongo, (1938- )

Lebanon
- Amin Maalouf

Netherlands

Nigeria
- Chinua Achebe[?], (1930- ) Things Fall Apart[?], stories about the dissolution of traditional African society.

Norway (see also: Norwegian literature)
- Ingvar Ambjørnsen[?]
- Lars Saabye Christensen[?]
- Olav Duun[?]
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World[?]
- Erik Fosnes Hansen[?]
- Knut Hamsun, Hunger
- Roy Jacobsen[?]
- Alexander Kielland[?]
- Jan Kjærstad
- Jonas Lie[?]
- Axel Sandemose[?]
- Gabriel Scott[?]
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavandsdatter

Peru
- Mario Vargas Llosa, (1936- ), ran for president, author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Poland (see also: Polish literature)
- Witold Gombrowicz, (1904-1969)
- Stanislaw Lem, (1921- )
- Eliza Orzeszkowa[?], (1841-1910)
- Boleslaw Prus[?], (1847-1912)
- Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925) Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of national epic The Peasants[?]
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, Quo Vadis
- Stefan Zeromski[?], (1864-1925)

Portugal

Romania
- Liviu Rebreanu[?], (1885-1944)
- Mihail Sadoveanu[?], (1880-1961)

Russia (see also: Russian literature)
- Andrey Bely[?], (1880-1934)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940, author of The Master and Margarita
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821-1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed
- Nikolai Gogol, (1809-1852), author of Dead Souls
- Ivan Goncharov[?], (1812-1891), Oblomov[?], a tale of "everyman"
- Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841)
- Nikolai Leskov[?], (1831-1895)
- Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977) early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English.
- Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837)
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826-1889)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918- ), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, also historian
- Aleksey K. Tolstoy[?], (1817-1875)
- Aleksey N. Tolstoy[?], (1883-1945)
- Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910) of whose greatest book it was said, "Loved the war, hated the peace".

Scotland
- Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (1954- ) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science-fiction novels under the second.
- J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan among others.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Great Detective, discoverer of the Lost World, believer in fairies.
- James Kelman[?]
- Ken MacLeod, (1954- ), science fiction
- Ian Rankin[?]
Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), innovator of the historical novel
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), author of Treasure Island
- Mary Stewart, (1916- )
- Nigel Tranter, (1909-2000), Scottish historical novels.
- Irvine Welsh, (1961- )

Serbia
- Milorad Pavic[?], (1929- )

Spain
- Leopoldo Alas[?], author of 'La Regenta'
Miguel de Cervantes, : El Quijote, or Don Quixote
- Pérez Galdós[?]
- Juan Goytisolo[?]: El sitio de los sitios
- Juan Marsé[?]: La Muchacha de las bragas de oro (Premio planeta[?])
- Eduardo Mendoza[?]: La ciudad de los prodigios, Sin Noticias de Gurp, El Misterio de la cripta embrujada
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte[?]: El Club Dumas
- Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno Martir

Sweden

Turkey
- Cem Akas
- Metin Kacan

United States

See: List of novelists by country: United States

Venezuela
- Romulo Gallegos[?], (1884-1969) Canaima[?], Doña Bárbara[?]

Wales
- English language
  - Ken Follett
  - Richard Hughes, (1900-1976), A High Wind in Jamaica
  - Jack Jones, (1884-1970)
  - Richard Llewellyn, (1907-1983), How Green Was My Valley
  - Jean Rhys
  - Bernice Rubens, author of A Solitary Grief
  - Howard Spring, (1889-1965)
- Welsh language
  - Daniel Owen[?], (1836-1895)
  - Kate Roberts[?], (1891-1985)

Yiddish
- Sholom Aleichem[?], (1859-1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories.
- Sholom Asch[?], (1880-1957)
- Ber Honigman[?], (1923- )
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim[?], (1836?-1917), pseud. for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
- Yitzok Lebesh Peretz[?], (1852-1915)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904-1991)

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