List of novelists by nationality

Alphabetical list by country: Please click on name or question mark to add factual information.

Australia
- Jessica Anderson
- Thea Astley
- Murray Bail
- Carmel Bird
- Rolf Boldrewood
- Peter Carey
- Marcus Clarke
- James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), author of Shogun
- 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, wrote Schindler's Ark (1982), the basis of the film Schindler's List, Confederates (1979)
- Frank Moorhouse
- Gerald Murnane
- Henry Handel Richardson
- Christina Stead, wrote The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
- Patrick White, Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
- Tim Winton
- Amy Witting

Austria (see also German literature)
- Peter Handke, (1942- )
- Stefan Zweig

Brazil
- Paulo Coelho

Canada
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Pierre Berton
- Robertson Davies, wrote Fifth Business (1970), publisher, professor, journalist
- C.J. Everon (See also France)
- Timothy Findley (See also France)
- Mavis Gallant (See also France)
- Arthur Hailey, indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel (1965), Airport (1968)
- Nancy Huston (See also France)
- Robert N.Kucey
- Malcolm Lowry, author of Under the Volcano (1947)
- Alistair MacLeod
- Rohinton Mistry
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Alice Munro
- Michael Ondaatje, wrote The English Patient (1993)
- Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
- David Adams Richards
- Gabrielle Roy
- Carol Shields
- Jane Urquhart

Catalan

Colombia
- Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), journalist, publisher, enthusiastic third-world leftist, avatar of magical realism.

Czech Republic
- Karel Capek, inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
- Bohumil Hrabal

Cosmopolitan
- Franz Kafka, lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature; creator of images of despair and alienation that haunted the 20th century
- Arthur Koestler
- Milan Kundera, born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer.
- Salman Rushdie, born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer.), placed under fatwah (death sentence) by Muslim clerics
Denmark
- Isak Dinesen, real name Karen Blixen, wrote Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Egypt
- Naguib Mahfouz

England
- Kingsley Amis, novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
- Martin Amis, son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money and The Information
- Jeffrey Archer, peer, perjurer and author of best-selling but poorly-reviewed novels.
- Jane Austen
- J.G. Ballard, disturbing novelist, wrote Crash, Empire of the Sun
- Arnold Bennett
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
- John Bunyan
- Anthony Burgess, composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
- Samuel Butler
- Lewis Carroll, pen name of C. L. Dodgson, mathematician, photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).
- Joseph Conrad, Polish-born mariner, author of The Heart of Darkness.
- Daniel Defoe, journalist, wrote Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders, wrote more than 500 books, accounted the most prolific author in English.
- Charles Dickens, master of the novel.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Great Detective, discoverer of the Lost World, believer in fairies.
- Daphne Du Maurier
- Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
- George Eliot
- Ian McEwan
- Henry Fielding
- Ford Madox Ford, wrote The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers.
- E. M. Forster
- Neil Gaiman
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Stella Gibbons, found something nasty in Mary Webb's woodshed.
- William G. Golding, The Lord of the Flies
- Robert Graves
- Graham Greene
- Thomas Hardy
- William Horwood
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Christopher Isherwood
- Rudyard Kipling, journalist, imperial propagandist, masterful short-story writer, poet, author of Kim (1904)
- Arthur Koestler
- D. H. Lawrence
- C. S. Lewis, Christian, author The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote a book called Surprised by Joy, years of English bachelorhood later, married an American fan named Joy
- William Somerset Maugham, creator of Sadie Thompson in Rain.
- George Meredith
- George Orwell, pen name of Eric A. Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949)
- Ouida, (1839-1908)
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Terry Pratchett, author of novels about magic, wizards, trolls etc. that are actually about the real world.
- J.B. Priestley
- Barbara Pym
- Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist, author of Pamela (1740)
- Sax Rohmer, creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.
- Dorothy Sayers
- Will Self
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- J.R.R. Tolkien, described by one critic as a `radical Luddite', he wrote the most popular work of fiction of the 20th century.
- Anthony Trollope
- Evelyn Waugh
- Mary Webb, chronicler of rustic passion and obssession.
- H. G. Wells, author and essayist; author of at least two of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.
- T.H. White, author of The Sword in the Stone, and The Once and Future King
- Angus Wilson
- P. G. Wodehouse, genius of the trivial.
- Virginia Woolf, proto-feminist.

Finland

France
- Honore de Balzac
- Albert Camus
- Louis Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan or Mort a Credit.
- Gilbert Cesbron
- Emilie du Chatelet
- Colette
- Denis Diderot
- Alexandre Dumas, perhaps more movies have been made from his novels than any other; the Count of Monte Cristo has been filmed on an average of once every 18 months since films were first made.
- C.J. Everon (See also Canada)
- Timothy Findley (See also Canada)
- Mavis Gallant (See also Canada)
- Nancy Huston (See also: Canada)
- Andre Gide
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, civil servant, war hero (Legion of Honor), founder of the Academie Goncourt, apostle of perversity and decadence, author of A rebours, or Against the Grain (1884) and La-Bas, or Down There (1891)
- Gustave Flaubert
- Victor Hugo
- Alfred Jarry, pataphysician, his Pere Ubu or King Turd (1896) could have been written about Richard Nixon
- Choderlos de Laclos
- Andre Malraux
- Georges Perec
- Abbe Prevost
- Marcel Proust, the man in the cork-lined room.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, invented the myth of the Noble Savage.
- Marquis de Sade, Mr. Eponym
- Georges Sand
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Gertrude Stein = See also: United States
- Stendhal
- Jules Verne, writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
- Voltaire, who thought this may not be the best of all possible worlds.
- Emile Zola

Germany (see also German literature)
- Heinrich Böll
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, polymath.
- Gunter Grass
- Hermann Hesse, Bead Game, Steppenwolf, beloved by hippies.
- Siegfried Lenz
- Erich Maria Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Patrick Süsskind

Hungary
- Gyorgy Dalos

Iceland
- Halldor Laxness

Ireland
- Samuel Beckett
- Brendan Behan
- James Joyce
- Laurence Sterne, played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries before Postmodernism was invented.
- Jonathan Swift, author of a savage, misanthropic satire that was Bowdlerised into a children's book.
- Oscar Wilde