List of novelists

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)
  • Hugo Bettauer[?]
  • Peter Handke, (1942- )
  • Josef Haslinger[?]
  • Peter Henisch[?]
  • Arthur Schnitzler
  • Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942)

• 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
  • Harry Mulisch
  • Tip Marugg[?]
  • Willem Frederik Hermans
  • Jan Wolkers[?]
  • Gerard van het Reve
  • A.F.Th. van der Heijden[?]

• 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
  • António Lobo Antunes[?]
  • Fernando de Campos[?]
  • Eca de Queiróz[?]
  • Aqulino Ribeiro[?]
  • Albino Forjaz de Sampaio[?], (1884-1949)
  • José Saramago, (1922- ), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998

• 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
  • Marianne Fredriksson
  • Gustaf Fröding[?]
  • Jan Guillou
  • Pär Lagerkvist
  • Selma Lagerlöf
  • Astrid Lindgren
  • Pär Martinsson
  • Vilhelm Moberg
  • August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)

• 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)