List of novelists

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:

Argentina

   * Ricardo Gźiraldes, (1886-1927) Don Segundo Sombra
   * Julio Cortazar, (1914 - 1984)

Armenia

   * Alexander Shirvanzade

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
   * Traci Harding
   * 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)
   * David Malouf
   * Frank Moorhouse
   * Gerald Murnane
   * D.B.C. Pierre, 2003 Booker Prize
   * Henry Handel Richardson
   * Nevil Shute
   * Christina Stead, author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
   * Randolph Stow
   * 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
   * Robert Musil, (1880 - 1942), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man
     Without Qualities)
   * 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)

   * 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
   * RŽjean 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)
   * 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
   * Narc’s Oller, (1846-1930), author of La febre d'or
   * MercŹ Rodoreda, (1909-1983), author of La plaŤa del diamant

China

   * 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 Garc’a M‡rquez, (1928- ), author of One Hundred Years of
     Solitude (1967), Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), journalist,
     publisher, avatar of magical realism
   * JosŽ Eustasio Rivera, (1888-1928), author of La vor‡gine

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

Czechia

(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, (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

   * J. R. Ackerley
   * Kingsley Amis
   * Martin Amis
   * Jane Austen, (1775-1817)
   * Charlotte Bront‘, (1816-1855)
   * Emily Bront‘, (1816-1855)
   * Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork
     Orange
   * Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of Heart of
     Darkness
   * Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), master of the novel, wrote for serial
     publication
   * George Eliot, (1819-1880)
   * James Follet, (1939- ), author of over 20 novels, plus works for radio
     and television.
   * E. M. Forster, (1879-1970)
   * Elizabeth Gaskell
   * William Golding
   * Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
   * Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928)
   * Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
   * Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World
   * P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The
     Children of Men (1992)
   * Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
   * C. H. B. Kitchin
   * George Orwell, (1903-1950) author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949)
   * J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
   * Anthony Trollope
   * Evelyn Waugh
   * H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), author and essayist, early writer of science
     fiction, author of The War of the Worlds
   * P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
   * Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist

Finland

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

France

   * HonorŽ 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)
   * Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les
     MisŽrables
   * Marcel Proust, (1871-1922)
   * FranŤois 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

   * Heinrich Bšll, (1917-1985)
   * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), polymath.
   * Gźnter 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 Sźskind (1949- ), author of Perfume

Hungary

   * Gyšrgy Dalos, (1943- )
   * M—r J—kai, (1825-1904)
   * Istv‡n …rkŽny, (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
   * Iris Murdoch
   * 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
   * 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

   * 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

   * Ingvar Ambjżrnsen
   * Lars Saabye Christensen
   * Olav Duun
   * Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
   * Erik Fosnes Hansen
   * Knut Hamsun, Hunger
   * Roy Jacobsen
   * Alexander Kielland
   * Jan Kjľrstad
   * 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

   * 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

   * Ant—nio Lobo Antunes
   * Fernando de Campos
   * Eca de Queir—z
   * Aqulino Ribeiro
   * Albino Forjaz de Sampaio, (1884-1949)
   * JosŽ Saramago, (1922- ), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998

Romania

   * Mircea Cartarescu, (born 1956), Nostalgia (1993), Orbitor
   * Ion Creanga, (1839-1889)
   * Mircea Eliade, (1907-1986),
   * Panait Istrati, (1884-1935)
   * Camil Petrescu, (1894-1957), Patul lui Procust (1933)
   * Marin Preda, (1927-1980), Morometii
   * Liviu Rebreanu, (1885-1944)
   * Mihail Sadoveanu, (1880-1961)
   * Ioan Slavici (1848-1925), Moara cu noroc

Russia

   * 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)
   * 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
        o 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
   * PŽrez Gald—s
   * Juan Goytisolo: El sitio de los sitios
   * Juan MarsŽ: 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 PŽrez-Reverte: El Club Dumas
   * Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno Martir

Sweden

   * Marianne Fredriksson
   * Gustaf Fršding
   * Jan Guillou
   * PŠr Lagerkvist
   * Selma Lagerlšf
   * Astrid Lindgren
   * PŠr Martinsson
   * Vilhelm Moberg
   * August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)

Switzerland

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

Turkey

   * Cem Akas
   * Metin Kacan

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
   * 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
   * 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
   * 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.
   * Herman Melville, (1819-1891), Moby-Dick
   * Henry Miller (1891-1980)
   * 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
   * John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
   * Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of
     Huckleberry Finn
   * 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, Do–a B‡rbara

Wales

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