List of novelists by nationality

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:

See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors

Albania

• Ismail Kadare

Ancient Latin Authors

• Petronius

Argentina

• Julio Cortazar, (1914 - 1984)
• Ricardo Güiraldes, (1886-1927) Don Segundo Sombra
• Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman

Armenia

• Alexander Shirvanzade

Australia

• Amy Witting
• Bryce Courtenay
• Carmel Bird
• Christina Stead, author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
• D.B.C. Pierre, 2003 Booker Prize
• David Foster
• David Malouf
• Dorothy Hewett
• Elizabeth Jolley
• Frank Moorhouse
• George Johnston
• Gerald Murnane
• Greg Egan, science fiction
• Helen Garner
• Henry Handel Richardson
• James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), author of Shogun
• Jessica Anderson
• John Marsden, author of the Tomorrow series
• Joseph Furphy
• Kate Grenville
• Kerry Greenwood
• Lily Brett, author of Just Like That (1994)
• Marcus Clarke
• Matthew Reilly
• Miles Franklin
• Murray Bail
• Nevil Shute
• Patrick White, Nobel Prize for Literature (1973), noted for his examinations of his native land
• Peter Carey
• Peter Goldsworthy
• Randolph Stow
• Richard Flanagan
• Rolf Boldrewood
• Thea Astley
• Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates (1979)
• Tim Winton
• Traci Harding
• Xavier Herbert

====Austria==== (see also German literature)

• Hugo Bettauer
• Peter Handke, (1942- )
• Josef Haslinger
• Peter Henisch
• Robert Musil, (1880 - 1942), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities)
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942)

Belarus

• Vasil Bykov (1924-2003)
• Uladzimir Karatkevich
• Yakub Kolas(Kanstantsin Ivanavich Mitskevich)
• Yanka Kupala(Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Ivo Andrić, (1892-1975)

Brazil

• Paulo Coelho, (1947- )

====Canada==== (see also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers)

• Margaret Atwood, (1939- ), author of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
• Pierre Berton, (1920- )
• Marie-Claire Blais, (1939- )
• Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990) author of Strange Fugitive (1928)
• Deborah Joy Corey, (1958- ) winner Books in Canada First Novel Award
• Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author of Fifth Business
• Réjean Ducharme
• Timothy Findley (1930-2002) (See also France)
• Hugh MacLennan,
• Margaret Laurence,
• Stephen Leacock
• Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi", 2002 Booker Prize
• Rohinton Mistry, (1952- )
• Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942)
• Susanna Moodie, (1803-1885)
• 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)
• Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)
• Carol Shields, (1935-2003)
• Catharine Parr Traill, (1802-1899)
• Jane Urquhart, (1949- )

Catalonia

• 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

Chile

• Isabel Allende
• Manuel Rojas
• Francisco Coloeane

====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

====Croatia==== (see also: Croatian literature)

• Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981)

====Czech Republic==== (see also: Literature of the Czech Republic)

• Karel Čapek, (1890-1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
• Jaroslav Hasek, (1883-1923), author of The Good Soldier Svejk
• Vaclav Havel, (born 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 (1946 - )

Egypt

• Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.

England

See also List of novelists by country: England

• Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World
• Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
• Anthony Trollope
• C. H. B. Kitchin
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), master of the novel, wrote for serial publication
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
• Doris Lessing, (born 1919)
• E. M. Forster, (1879-1970)
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Emily Brontë, (1816-1855)
• Evelyn Waugh
• George Eliot, (1819-1880)
• George Orwell, (1903-1950) author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949), Burmese Days
• Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
• H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), author and essayist, early writer of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds
• Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• J. R. Ackerley
• J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
• James Follet, (1939- ), author of over 20 novels, plus works for radio and television.
• Jane Austen, (1775-1817)
• Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of Heart of Darkness
• Kingsley Amis
• Martin Amis
• Nevil Shute (1899-1960), On the Beach, The Trustee from the Toolroom, A Town like Alice
• Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
• P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
• Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928)
• Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist
• William Golding
• Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) Physician and philosopher. Author of Religio Medici The Garden of Cyrus Pseudodoxia Epidemica

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 also List of novelists by country: France

(see also: French literature)

• Honoré de Balzac, (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
• Albert Camus, (1913-1960)
• Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870), 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.
• Michel Houellebecq, Impact award winner
• Gustave Flaubert, (1821-1880)
• Anatole France
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
• Marcel Proust, (1871-1922)
• François Rabelais, (ca. 1493-1553)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
• Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980), existentialist
• Jules Verne, (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
• Voltaire, (1694-1778), satirist
• Emile Zola, (1840-1902), realist

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- )
• R.K. Narayan, (1906-2001)
• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908-1994)

Ireland

see also Irish fiction

• Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989)
• Brendan Behan, (1923-1964)
• Roddy Doyle, (1958-)
• Thomas Flanagan, (1923-2002)
• James Joyce, (1882-1941), author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
• Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)
• 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 children's literature.
• 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
• Carmen Covito
• 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
• Franco Mimmi, journalist, novelist (Rivoluzione, Relitti, Villaggio Vacanze, Il nostro agente in Giudea, Un cielo così sporco, Cavaliere di Grazia)
• Elsa Morante
• Alberto Moravia
• Cesare Pavese
• Luigi Pirandello, playwright, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Vasco Pratolini
• Andrea di Robilant
• 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

====Pakistan==== (see also: Pakistani literature)

• Ahmed Ali
• Zulfikar Ghose
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• Tariq Ali

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==== (see also: Romanian literature)

• Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), O scrisoare pierdută (1884),
• Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956), Nostalgia (1993), Orbitor II (2002),
• Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Précis de décomposition (1949),
• Ion Creangă (1839-1889),
• Mircea Eliade (1907-1986),
• Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889),
• Panait Istrati (1884-1935),
• Eugen Ionescu (1909-1994), Elegii pentru fiinţe mici (1931), Nu (1934), Englezeşte fără profesor (1945), Rinocerii (1959),
• Camil Petrescu (1894-1957), Patul lui Procust (1933),
• Marin Preda (1927-1980), Moromeţii (1956),
• Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944), Ion (1920),
• Mihail Sadoveanu (1880-1961), Fraţii Jderi (1935-1942),
• Ioan Slavici (1848-1925), Moara cu noroc (1860),
• Vasile Voiculescu (1884-1963), Zahei orbul 1952;

====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 a "superfluous" man
• Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841)
• Nikolai Leskov, (1831-1895)
• Eduard Limonov, author of It's Me, Eddie and Memoir of a Russian Punk
• 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

• William Auld writes mainly in Esperanto
• 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 and Montenegro

• Desanka Maksimovic
• Milorad Pavic, (1929- )
• Petar Petrovic Njegos

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
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
• Jan Guillou
• Eyvind Johnson
• Pär Lagerkvist
• Selma Lagerlöf
• Astrid Lindgren
• Harry Martinson
• Vilhelm Moberg
• August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)
• Esaias Tegnér

See also: List of Swedish language writers

Switzerland

• Max Frisch (1911 - 1991), Stiller (1954) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)

Turkey

• Cem Akas
• Ertugrul Oguz Firat, author of "Sevicira"
• Metin Kacan
• Bilge Karasu, author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"
• Yahya Kemal
• Yasar Kemal, author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
• Orhan Pamuk, author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"
• Aziz Nesin
• Haldun Taner

United States

See also List of novelists by country: United States

• Kathy Acker, (1943-1997)
• Robert H. Adleman (1919-1995)
• Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), author of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys
• Nicholson Baker (born 1957), author of The Mezzanine and Vox
• Ray Bradbury, (born 1920), author of The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), poet & novelist, author of Post Office, Factotum
• William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
• Truman Capote, (1924-1984)
• Raymond Chandler, (1888-1959)
• Tom Clancy, (born 1947), The Hunt for Red October
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets.
• John Fante, (1909-1983), author of Ask the Dust, Full of Life
• William Faulkner, (1897-1962), Southern Modernist, author of A Light in August
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise
• Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables
• Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises
• Frank Herbert, (1920-1986), famous science fiction writer, notably Dune saga.
• John Irving, (born 1942), author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules
• Jack Kerouac, beatnik, author of On the Road (1952).
• Stephen King, prolific horror author.
• Jack London, (1876-1916), The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, The Sea-Wolf
• Herman Melville, (1819-1891), Moby-Dick
• Henry Miller (1891-1980)
• Toni Morrison, (born 1931), Nobel Prize winner.
• Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937) V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
• Philip Roth, (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain
• J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
• William Saroyan
• John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, Cannery Row, East of Eden
• Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper
• Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle
• Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Thomas Wolfe, (1900-1938), Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life (1929)

Venezuela

• Romulo Gallegos, (1884-1969) Canaima, Doña Bárbara

Wales

• English language
  • Mary Balogh
  • Amy Dillwyn
  • 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)
• Mendele Moykher Sforim, (1836-1917), pseud. for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
• Yitzok Lebesh Peretz, (1852-1915)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904-1991)