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 (born 1936)
• Fatos Kongoli (born 1944)
• Haki Stermilli (1895–1953)
• Faik Konica (1875–1942)

• Dritero Agolli (born 1931)
• Migjeni (1911–1938)
• Jakov Xoxa (1923–1979)

Algeria

• Marguerite Taos Amrouche (1913–1976)
• Rachid Boudjedra (born 1941)
• Albert Camus (1913–1960)
• Mohammed Dib (1920–2003)
• Tahar Djaout (1954–1993)
• Assia Djebar (born 1936)
• Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), originally from Martinique

• Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962)
• Mouloud Mammeri (1917–1989)
• Rachid Mimouni (1945–1995)
• Ahlam Mostaghanemi
• Leïla Sebbar
• Kateb Yacine (1929–1989)

Roman Empire|Ancient Latin authors

• Apuleius

• Petronius

Angola

• José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960)
• Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941)

• Oscar Ribas
• José Luandino Vieira (born 1935)

Argentina

• Marcos Aguinis (born 1935)
• César Aira
• Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Abelardo Castillo
• Julio Cortázar (1914–1984)

• Macedonio Fernandez
• Ricardo Güiraldes (1886–1927)
• Sylvia Iparraguirre
• Leopoldo Marechal
• Manuel Puig

• Andrés Rivera
• Juan José Saer
• Ernesto Sábato
• Luisa Valenzuela

Armenia

• Michael Arlen
• Yervant Odian

• Alexander Shirvanzade

Assyrian

• Khalil Gibran (1883–1931)
• Thea Halo
• Ivan Kakovitch (1933–2006)

• Rosie Malek-Yonan
• Obelit Yadgar

Australia

See: List of Australian novelists

Austria

• Vicki Baum (1888–1960)
• Hugo Bettauer
• Thomas Bernhard
• Hermann Broch (1886–1951)
• Peter Handke (born 1942)
• Josef Haslinger

• Elfriede Jelinek
• Robert Musil (1880–1942)
• Joseph Roth (1894–1939)
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

• Humayun Ahmed
• Muhammad Yunus
• Taslima Nasrin

• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Humayun Azad

Belarus

• Vasil Bykaŭ (1924–2003)
• Uładzimir Karatkievič
• Jakub Kołas (Kanstancy Mickievič)

• Janka Kupała (Ivan Łucevič)
• Ivan Šamiakin (1921–2004)

Belgium

• Nicolas Ancion (born 1971)
• Cornelis de Bie
• Louis Paul Boon
• Hendrik Conscience
• Ernest Claes
• Hugo Claus
• Christine D'Haen
• Johan Daisne
• Charles De Coster
• Willem Elsschot
• Jef Geeraerts

• Guido Gezelle (1830–1899)
• Marnix Gijsen
• Hubert Lampo
• Rosalie Loveling
• Virginie Loveling
• Maurice Maeterlinck
• Alice Nahon
• Amélie Nothomb
• Anne Provoost
• Maria Rosseels
• Georges Simenon

• Stijn Streuvels (1871–1969)
• Herman Teirlinck
• Felix Timmermans
• André Henri Constant van Hasselt
• Karel Van Mander
• Emile Verhaeren
• Peter Verhelst
• Gerard Walschap
• Jan Frans Willems
• Lode Zielens

Benin

• Berte-Evelyne Agbo (see also Senegal)
• Florent Couao-Zotti (born 1964)

• Richard Dogbeh (see also Togo, Senegal and Ivory Coast)
• Lauryn (see also Ivory Coast and Togo)

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Ivo Andrić (1892–1975)

Botswana

• Caitlin Davies, born in Britain
• Unity Dow

• Bessie Head (1937–1986), born in South Africa
• Alexander von Rudloff

Brazil

• Jorge Amado (1912–2001)
• Clarice Lispector
• Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
• Machado de Assis
• José Lins do Rego
• Manuel Antônio de Almeida
• José Alencar
• Lima Barreto

• Raul Pompéia
• Mário de Andrade
• Rubem Fonseca
• Lúcio Cardoso
• Chico Buarque
• Ferréz
• Ivan Lessa
• Érico Veríssimo

• Joaquim Manoel de Macedo
• Raduan Nassar
• Graciliano Ramos
• João Ubaldo Ribeiro
• João Guimarães Rosa
• Murilo Rubião
• Fernando Sabino
• Moacyr Scliar

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

• Sarah Bouyain (born 1968)

Cameroon

• Mongo Beti (pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala)
• Calixthe Beyala

• Ferdinand Oyono (1929–2010)

• Francis Bebey

Canada

• Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
• Pierre Berton (1920–2004 )
• Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
• Morley Callaghan (1903–1990)
• Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958)
• Robertson Davies (1913–1995)
• Ranj Dhaliwal (born 1976)
• Réjean Ducharme
• Louis Emond
• Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 1968)
• Timothy Findley (1930–2002) (See also France)

• Gayleen Froese
• Donald Jack,
• Hugh MacLennan,
• Margaret Laurence,
• Stephen Leacock
• Yann Martel
• Rohinton Mistry (born 1952)
• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942)
• Susanna Moodie, (1803–1885)
• Christopher G. Moore (born 1952)

• Farley Mowat
• Alice Munro (born 1931)
• Michael Ondaatje (born 1943)
• Mordecai Richler (1931–2001)
• Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983)
• Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947)
• Carol Shields (1935–2003)
• Catharine Parr Traill (1802–1899)
• Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972)
• Jane Urquhart (born 1949)

Cape Verde

• Germano Almeida (born 1945)

• Manuel Lopes

Catalonia

• Raimon Llull (1235–1315)
• Ramon Muntaner (c. 1270–1336)

• Joanot Martorell (1413–1468)

• Narcís Oller (1846–1930)

• Mercè Rodoreda (1909–1983)

Chad

• Marie-Christine Koundja (born 1957)

Chile

• Isabel Allende (born 1942)
• Francisco Coloane (1910–2002)
• José Donoso

• Baldomero Lillo (1867–1923)
• Manuel Rojas
• Luis Sepúlveda

• Marcela Serrano (born 1951)
• Mercedes Valdivieso
• Jorge Salgado-Reyes

China

• Cao Xueqin (c. 1715–1763)
• Dai Sijie
• Gao Xingjian
• Han Shaogong (born 1953)

• Lao She (1899–1966)
• Li Yu (author)
• Lu Xun (1881–1936)

• Mao Dun (1896–1981)
• Mo Yan
• Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998)

• Wang Shuo
• Wei Jingsheng
• Zhang Ailing (1920–1995)

Colombia

• Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958)
• Jaime Manrique

• Gabriel García Márquez (born 1927)

• José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928)

• Álvaro Mutis (born 1923)

Republic of the Congo

• Jeannette Balou Tchichelle (born 1947)

• Emmanuel Dongala

Democratic Republic of the Congo

(formerly Zaïre)

• Amba Bongo
• Maguy Kabamba (born 1960)

• Sony Labou Tansi (1947–1995)

• V. Y. Mudimbe (born 1941)

• Yamusangie, Frederick Kambemba

Cosmopolitanism|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 (born 1929) born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer.
• Salman Rushdie (born 1947) born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, author of The Satanic Verses

Costa Rica

• Joaquín García Monge (1881–1958)

Ivory Coast

• Tanella Boni
• Micheline Coulibaly (1950–2003)
• Richard Dogbeh (See also Benin, Senegal and Togo (1932–2003))
• Ahmadou Kourouma (1927–2003)

• Lauryn (See also connected with Togo and Benin (born 1978))
• Véronique Tadjo (born 1955)
• Werewere-Liking Gnepo (see also Cameroon (born 1950))

Croatia

• Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981)

• Ivo Andrić (1892–1975)

• Ivan Aralica (born 1930)

• Tomislav Ladan (born 1932)

Cuba

• Reinaldo Arenas

• Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980)

• Daína Chaviano

• Jose Lezama Lima

• Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955)

Czech Republic

• Karel Čapek (1890–1938)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923)

• Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997)
• Milan Kundera (born 1929)

• Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986)

Denmark

• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)
• Karen Blixen (1885–1962) (pen name: Isak Dinesen), author of Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
• Peter Høeg
• Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950), Nobel Prize for Literature (1944)
• Christian Jungersen
• Morten Korch (1876–1954)
• Carl Erik Soya (1896–1983)

Djibouti

• Waberi Abdourahman (born 1965)

Ecuador

• Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926–2009)
• Rosalía Arteaga
• Aminta Buenaño
• Benjamín Carrión
• Ileana Espinel

• María Fernanda Espinosa (born 1964)
• Enrique Gil Gilbert
• Jorge Icaza
• Salomon Isacovici
• Edna Iturralde

• Violeta Luna
• José Martínez Queirolo
• Nela Martínez
• Juan Montalvo
• Gonzalo Zaldumbide

Egypt

• Alifa Rifaat
• Ahdaf Soueif
• Bahaa Taher
• Edward al-Kharrat
• Ibrahim Aslan
• Gamal Al-Ghitani
• Khairy Shalaby
• Muhammad Husayn Haykal
• Nabil Farouk
• Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
• Saleh Morsi
• Sonallah Ibrahim
• Tawfiq al-Hakim
• Yahya Haqqi
• Youssef Ziedan
• Yusuf Idris

Equatorial Guinea

• María Nsué Angüe (born 1945)
• Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (born 1950)
• Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 1966)

Estonia

• Sass Henno (born 1982)
• Kaur Kender (born 1971)
• Albert Kivikas (1898–1978)
• Andrus Kivirähk (born 1970)
• Jaan Kross (1920–2007)
• Leo Kunnas (born 1967)
• Juhan Liiv (1864–1913)
• Tõnu Õnnepalu (a.k.a. Emil Tode, born 1962)
• Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986)
• Lilli Promet (1922–2007)
• Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977)
• Raivo Seppo (born 1973)
• Juhan Smuul (1922–1971)
• Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878–1940)
• Enn Vetemaa (born 1936)
• Heiki Vilep (born 1960)

Ethiopia

• Haddis Alemayehu
• Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus
• Moges Kebede
• Dinaw Mengestu (born 1978)
• Maaza Mengiste (born 1971)
• Nega Mezlekia
• Hama Tuma (born 1949)
• Birhanu Zerihun (1933/4–1987)

Faroe Islands

Finland

• Juhani Aho (1861–1921)
• Tove Jansson (1914–2001), she wrote in Swedish
• Aino Kallas (1878–1956), female
• Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872)
• Väinö Linna (1920–1992)
• Arto Paasilinna
• Kalle Päätalo (1919–2000)
• Frans Emil Sillanpää (1888–1964), Nobel Prize for Literature, 1939
• Mika Waltari (1908–1979)

France

See: French literature, List of French novelists, List of French women writers

Gabon

• Jean-Baptiste Abessolo (born 1932)
• Bessora (born in Belgium) (born 1968)
• Rene Maran, born near Martinique (1887–1960)
• Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri

Gambia

• Lenrie Peters

Germany

• Heinrich Böll (1917–1985)
• Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Hans Fallada (1893–1947)
• Theodor Fontane (1819–1898)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), polymath.
• Günter Grass (1927–2015), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
• Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991)
• Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
• Uwe Johnson (1934–1984)
• Ernst Jünger (1895–1998)
• Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–974)
• Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975)
• Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811)
• Siegfried Lenz (born 1926)
• Andreas Mand (born 1959)
• Heinrich Mann (1871–1950)
• Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Nobel Prize for Literature (1929)
• Sten Nadolny (born 1942), author of The Discovery of Slowness
• Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
• Bernhard Schlink (born 1944)
• W. G. Sebald (1944–2001)
• Anna Seghers (1900–1983)
• Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author of Perfume
• Martin Walser (born 1927)
• Peter Weiss (1916–1982)
• Christa Wolf (1929–2011)
• Arnold Zweig (1887–1968)

Ghana

• Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1940)
• Ayi Kwei Armah
• Bediako Asare, also connected with Tanzania
• Kofi Awoonor (born 1935)
• William Boyd
• Akosua Busia
• J.E. Casely-Hayford
• Amma Darko
• Efua Theodora Sutherland (1924–1996)

Greece

• George Leonardos (born 1937)
• Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)

Guatemala

Guinea

• Sirah Balde de Labe
• Camara Laye
• Tierno Monénembo
• Williams Sassine

Haïti

• Frankétienne (born 1936)
• Clark Parent (born 1951)
• Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)

Honduras

• Roberto Castillo (1950–2008)
• Julio Escoto (born 1944)
• Javier Abril Espinoza (born 1967)
• Lucila Gamero (1873–1964)

Hong Kong

• Louis Cha
• Ni Kuang

Hungary

• Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932)
• Mihály Babits (1883–1941)
• György Dalos (born 1943)
• József Eötvös (1813–1871)
• Péter Esterházy (born 1950)
• István Fekete (1900–1970) author of Vuk
• Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954)
• Mór Jókai (1825–1904) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 19th century
• Margit Kaffka (1880–1918)
• Frigyes Karinthy (1887–1938) author of scifi novels
• József Kármán (1768–1795)
• Zsigmond Kemény (1814–1875)
• Imre Kertész (born 1929), Nobel Prize for Literature (2002)
• János Kodolányi (1899–1969)
• György Konrád (born 1933)
• Károly Kós (1883–1977)
• Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936)
• László Krasznahorkai (born 1954)
• Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933)
• Ervin Lázár (born 1936) author of children's novels
• Iván Mándy (1918–1995) author of children's novels
• Sándor Márai (1900–1989)
• Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952) author of The Paul Street Boys
• Ferenc Móra (1879–1934)
• Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 20th century
• Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922) author of popular historical novels
• Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910)
• Péter Nádas (born 1942)
• László Németh (1901–1975)
• Géza Ottlik (1912–1990)
• Jenő Rejtő (1905–1943)
• Henriett Seth F. (born 1980) author of a scifi novel, 2006
• Magda Szabó (1917–2007) author of The Door
• Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974) author of Kazohinia
• Antal Szerb (1901–1945) author of Journey by Moonlight
• Áron Tamási (1897–1966)
• Albert Wass (1908–1998)
• Miklós Bánffy

Iceland

• Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), author of the Younger Edda
• Halldór Laxness (1902–1998), Nobel Prize for Literature (1955)
• Sjón (1962), The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (2005)

Indian subcontinent

• Aravind Adiga (1974–)
• Ahmed Ali (1910–1994), English, Urdu
• Mulk Raj Anand, English
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Urdu, English, Hindi
• Manik Bandopadhyay, Bengali
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali
• Bibhutibhushan Banerjee, Bengali
• Tarashankar Banerjee, Bengali
• Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, Kannada
• Ramavriksha Benipuri, Hindi
• Ruskin Bond, English
• Buddhadev Bose, Bengali, English
• Nirendranath Chakraborty, Bengali
• Vikram Chandra, English
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894), Bengali
• Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959), English
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali
• Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), English
• Rajkamal Chaudhary, Hindi
• Jibanananda Das, Bengali
• Manoj Das,Oriya
• David Davidar
• Shobhaa De, English
• Anita Desai, English
• Kiran Desai, English
• P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi
• Eunice De Souza (born 1940), English
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali, English, French
• Lalon Fakir, Bengali
• Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali
• Amitav Ghosh, English
• Subodh Ghosh, Bengali
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912) Bengali
• Raj Kamal Jha, English
• Amita Kanekar
• Umar Alisha Kavisekhara Telugu
• Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979) Marathi
• Prakash Kona
• Kuvempu, Kannada
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Pankaj Mishra
• Piyush Jha, English
• Rohinton Mistry, English
• Narendranath Mitra, Bengali
• Gopinath Mohanty,Oriya
• Jagadish Mohanty (born 1951) Odia
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali
• Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) Marathi & English
• R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English
• Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938) Marathi
• Dibyendu Palit, Bengali, English
• Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi
• Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), Hindi
• Tushar Raheja, English
• Indra Bahadur Rai (1927) Nepali
• Rajashree, English
• Raja Rao, English
• Satyajit Ray, Bengali
• Arundhati Roy, English
• Shomprakash Sinha Roy, English
• Rammohan Roy, Bengali, English, Sanskrit
• Salman Rushdie (born 1947), English
• Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) Odia
• Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit
• Vilas Sarang (born 1942) Marathi & English
• D.Selvaraj, Tamil
• Samar Sen, Bengali, English
• Fakir Mohan Senapati,Oriya
• Durjoy Datta, English
• Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel laureate
• Shashi Tharoor, English
• Chetan Bhagat, English
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bengali
• Vijayakrishnan, Malayalam
• Harilal Upadhyay (1916–1994) Gujarati
• Kalki Krishnamurthy, Tamil
• Sujatha Rangarajan, Tamil
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Assamese
• Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Assamese, English
• Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Assamese
• Hiren Gohain, Assamese
• Nabakanta Barua, Assamese
• Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Assamese

Indonesia

• Andrea Hirata, Tetralogy of "Laskar Pelangi" (The Rainbow Troops)
• Dewi Lestari

Iran

• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Azar Nafisi
• Bozorg Alavi
• Houshang Golshiri
• Jamal Mirsadeghi
• Mahmud Doulatabadi
• Reza Baraheni
• Sadegh Hedayat
• Sadiq Chubak
• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Simin Daneshvar
• Zoya Pirzad
• Arash Hejazi
• Abbas Maroufi
• Shahryar Mandanipour

Ireland

See: Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists, List of Irish women writers

Israel

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nobel Prize winner; The Bridal Canopy, Yesteryear
• Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939
• David Grossman, See Under: Love, The Smile of the Lamb
• Yoram Kaniuk, His Daughter
• Amos Oz, Black Box, My Michael
• Yaakov Shabtai, Past Continuous
• Meir Shalev, The Blue Mountain, Esau
• Michal Govrin, The Name, Snapshots
• Chaim Walder, Kids Speak
• Avraham B. Yehoshua, A Late Divorce, Mr. Mani

Italy

• Giulio Angioni
• Riccardo Bacchelli
• Alessandro Baricco
• Giorgio Bassani
• Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra (1985) is most popular work in English
• Alberto Bevilacqua
• Vitaliano Brancati
• Gesualdo Bufalino
• Aldo Busi
• Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari (1940)
• Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
• Luigi Capuana
• Andrea Camilleri
• Carlo Cassola
• Carlo Collodi
• Carmen Covito
• Gabriele D'Annunzio,
• Massimo D'Azeglio
• Edmondo De Amicis
• Grazia Deledda
• Umberto Eco
• Beppe Fenoglio (né Giuseppe)
• Antonio Fogazzaro
• Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Natalia Ginzburg
• Primo Levi, chemist and novelist
• Emilio Lussu
• Alessandro Manzoni
• Dacia Maraini
• Franco Mimmi
• Elsa Morante
• Alberto Moravia
• Cesare Pavese
• Luigi Pirandello, playwright, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Vasco Pratolini
• Andrea di Robilant
• Emilio Salgari
• Alberto Savinio
• Leonardo Sciascia
• Ignazio Silone
• Mario Soldati
• Italo Svevo
• Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Declares (1994)
• Susanna Tamaro
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
• Giovanni Verga
• Elio Vittorini

Jamaica

• Opal Palmer Adisa
• Lindsay Barrett
• Edward Baugh
• James Berry
• Erna Brodber
• Colin Channer

• Kwame Dawes
• John Edgar Colwell Hearne
• Nalo Hopkinson
• Herbert de Lisser
• Roger Mais
• Claude McKay

• Geoffrey Philp
• Patricia Powell
• Victor Stafford Reid
• Leone Ross
• Andrew Salkey
• Sylvia Wynter

Japan

• Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)
• Hiroyuki Agawa (born 1920)
• Osamu Dazai (1909–1948)
• Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986)
• Shusaku Endo (1923–1996)
• Ichiyō Higuchi (1872–1896)
• Masuji Ibuse (1898–1993)
• Kyōka Izumi (1873–1939)
• Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) (Nobel Prize, 1968)
• Natsuo Kirino (born 1951)

• Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)
• Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933)
• Minae Mizumura
• Ogai Mori (1862–1922)
• Haruki Murakami
• Ryū Murakami
• Nisioisin (born 1981)
• Kenzaburō Ōe (born 1935) (Nobel Prize, 1994)
• Yoko Ogawa (born 1962)
• Fuyumi Ono (born 1961)

• Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965)
• Hirotsu Ryurō (1861–1928)
• Murasaki Shikibu
• Junzo Shono (1921–2009)
• Ayako Sono (born 1931)
• Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916)
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965)
• Shōtarō Yasuoka (born 1920)
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Akira Yoshimura (1927–2006)
• Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (1924–1994)

Kenya

• Margaret Ogola
• Grace Ogot (born 1930)
• M.G. Vassanji (born 1950)
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938), The River Between, Caitaani muthara-Ini, Matigari
• Meja Mwangi (born 1948)
• Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen (1885–1962)

Korea

Kosovo

• Sinan Hasani
• Teki Dervishi
• Rifat Kukaj

Kurdland

• Bachtyar Ali
• Jalal Barzanji
• Yaşar Kemal
• Ata Nahai
• Farhad Pirbal
• Mehmed Uzun

Latvia

• Andrejs Upīts
• Marģeris Zariņš
• Aleksandrs Čaks

Lebanon

• Hanan Al-Shaykh
• Youssef Howayek (writer and sculptor)
• Elias Khoury
• Amin Maalouf

Lesotho

• Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948)

Luxembourg

Republic of Macedonia

• Slavko Janevski
• mk:Венко Андоновски

Madagascar

• Michèle Rakotoson
• Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malawi

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
• Felix Mnthali

Malaysia

• K. S. Maniam

Mali

• Amadou Hampâté Bâ
• Aïda Mady Diallo
• Doumbi Fakoly (born 1944)
• Moussa Konaté
• Yambo Ouologuem (born 1940)

Mauritania

• Moussa Ould Ebnou

Mexico

• Juan Jose Arreola
• Nellie Campobello
• Laura Esquivel
• Carlos Fuentes
• Elena Garro
• Martín Luis Guzmán
• José Emilio Pacheco
• Octavio Paz
• Juan Rulfo
• Agustin Yanez
• Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Morocco

• Mohamed Choukri
• Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007)
• Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010)
• Abdelkebir Khatibi
• Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
• Laila Lalami
• Ahmed Sefrioui
• Mohamed Zafzaf

Mozambique

• Paulina Chiziane (born 1955)
• Mia Couto (born 1955)
• Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
• Lina Magaia

Nepal

• Samrat Upadhyay
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914–1982): Sumnima, Tin Ghumti, Hitlar Ra Yahudi.
• Parijat (writer) (1937–1993): Shirishko Phool (Blue Mimosa), Anido Pahadsangai, Paribhasit Ankhanharu.
• Jagadish Ghimire (1945): Lilam, Sabiti.
• Khagendra Sangraula (1946): Chetanako Pahilo Dak, Amako Chhatapati, Junakiriko Sangit.
• Ismali (1955): Seto Atanka, Zero Mile.

Netherlands

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Harry Mulisch
• Tip Marugg
• Cees Nooteboom
• Willem Frederik Hermans
• Jan Wolkers
• Gerard van het Reve
• A.F.Th. van der Heijden
• Geert van der Kolk

New Zealand

• Barbara Anderson (born 1926)
• Catherine Chidgey (born 1970)
• Joy Cowley (born 1936)
• Nigel Cox (1951–2006)
• Barry Crump (1935–1996)
• Tessa Duder (born 1940)
• Alan Duff (born 1950)
• Kate Duignan (born 1974)
• Janet Frame (1924–2004) author of An Angel At My Table
• Maurice Gee (born 1931)
• Patricia Grace (born 1937)
• Keri Hulme (born 1947)
• Witi Ihimaera (born 1944)
• Annamarie Jagose (born 1965)
• Fiona Kidman (born 1940)
• John A. Lee (1891–1982)
• Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982)
• Owen Marshall (born 1941)
• Frederick Edward Maning (1812–1883)
• Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–1972)
• Rosie Scott (born 1948)
• Maurice Shadbolt (1932–2004)
• C. K. Stead (born 1932)
• Philip Temple (born 1939)
• Julius Vogel (1835–1899)
• Cherry Wilder (1930–2002)

Nicaragua

• Gioconda Belli (born 1948)

Nigeria

See: List of Nigerian novelists

Norway

• Ingvar Ambjørnsen
• Jens Bjørneboe
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
• Johan Borgen
• Lars Saabye Christensen
• Olav Duun
• Johan Falkberget
• Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
• Erik Fosnes Hansen
• Knut Hamsun, Hunger
• Sigurd Hoel
• Roy Jacobsen
• Alexander Kielland
• Jan Kjærstad
• Jonas Lie
• Erlend Loe
• Gabriel Scott
• Dag Solstad
• Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
• Tarjei Vesaas
• Herbjørg Wassmo

Pakistan

• Ahmed Ali, Founding Father Pakistan Academy of Letters, Co-founder All India Progressive Writer's Movement & Association 1933–36, Established diplomatic relations with China & Pakistan's embassy in Peking, 1951. Novelist, poet, short story writer & scholar.
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Tariq Ali
• Musharraf Ali Farooqi
• Zulfikar Ghose
• Mohsin Hamid
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Saadat Hasan Manto, born in India
• Uzma Aslam Khan
• Kamila Shamsie
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• Abdullah Hussain
• Intizar Hussain
• Janbaz Mirza
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Bano Qudsia
• Ashfaq Ahmed
• Mumtaz Mufti
• Asim Butt
• Naseem Hijazi
• Ibn-e-Safi
• Ishtiaq Ahmed

Palestine

Panama

Paraguay

• Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944)
• Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)

Peru

• Ciro Alegría (1909–1967)
• José María Arguedas (1911–1969)
• Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) (Nobel Prize, 2010)

Philippines

• Francisco Arcellana
• Lualhati Bautista
• Carlos Bulosan
• Jose Dalisay
• Eric Gamalinda
• N.V.M. Gonzalez
• Jessica Hagedorn
• Amado Hernandez
• Stevan Javellana
• Nick Joaquin
• Edgardo Reyes
• Jose Rizal
• Ninotchka Rosca
• Bienvenido Santos
• Lope K. Santos
• Rogelio Sicat
• F. Sionil Jose
• Edilberto Tiempo
• Edith Tiempo
• Linda Ty-Casper

Poland

• Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965)
• Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939)
• Tadeusz Konwicki (born 1926)
• Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
• Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887)
• Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954)
• Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969)
• Stanisław Lem (1921–2006)
• Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910)
• Jan Potocki (1761–1815)
• Bolesław Prus (1847–1912)
• Władysław Reymont (1867–1925), Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of The Peasants
• Bruno Schulz (1892–1942)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, author of Quo Vadis
• Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921)
• Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925)
• Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975)

Portugal

See: List of Portuguese novelists and List of Portuguese women writers

Puerto Rico

• Giannina Braschi (born 1953), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), and El imperio de los suenos/Empire of Dreams (1988).
• Luis López Nieves (born 1950), Seva (1984), Escribir para Rafa (1987), La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León (2000), El corazón de Voltaire (2005)

Romania

• Gabriela Adameşteanu
• Maria Baciu
• Max Blecher
• Nicolae Breban
• Augustin Buzura
• Mateiu Caragiale
• George Călinescu
• Mircea Cărtărescu
• Gheorghe Crăciun
• Mircea Eliade
• Mihai Eminescu
• Radu Pavel Gheo
• Virgil Gheorghiu
• Panait Istrati
• Alexandru Ivasiuc
• Norman Manea
• Gib Mihăescu
• Mircea Nedelciu
• Costache Negruzzi
• Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
• Dora Pavel
• Camil Petrescu
• Cezar Petrescu
• Dumitru Radu Popescu
• Marin Preda
• Liviu Rebreanu
• Doina Ruşti
• Mihail Sadoveanu
• Zaharia Stancu
• Duiliu Zamfirescu

Russia

• Andrey Bely (1880–1934)
• Andrey Bitov, (born 1937)
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), author of The Master and Margarita
• Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), author of What Is To Be Done?
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
• Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971)
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), author of Dead Souls
• Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
• Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)
• Anna Kashina, author of The Princess of Dhagabad
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)
• Leonid Leonov, 1899–1994
• Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895)
• Vladimir Makanin (born 1937)
• 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)
• Ilia Shtemler (born 1933)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)
• Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina
• Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)

Samoa

• Sia Figiel (born 1967)
• Albert Wendt (born 1939)

São Tomé and Príncipe

• Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990)

Senegal

See: List of Senegalese writers

Serbia

• David Albahari
• Ivo Andrić
• Vladimir Arsenijević
• Miodrag Bulatović
• Miloš Crnjanski
• Dobrica Ćosić
• Jelena Dimitrijević
• Danilo Kiš
• Milorad Pavić
• Borislav Pekić
• Isidora Sekulić
• Meša Selimović
• Srđan Srdić
• Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Sierra Leone

• Syl Cheney-Coker
• Aminatta Forna (born 1964)

Slovakia

Slovenia

Somalia

• Maxamed Daahir Afrax
• Faarax MJ Cawl
• Nuruddin Farah (born 1945)
• Abdi Sheik Abdi
• Waris Dirie

South Africa

See: List of South African writers

South Korea

See: List of Korean novelists

Spain

• Leopoldo Alas
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
• Pérez Galdós
• Juan Goytisolo
• Javier Marías
• Juan Marsé
• Eduardo Mendoza
• Antonio Muñoz Molina
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón (born 1964)
• Miguel de Unamuno

Sri Lanka

• Martin Wickremasinghe
• Shyam Selvadurai
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)
• Gunadasa Amarasekara

Sudan

• Tayeb Salih
• Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt
• Leila Aboulela

Sweden

• Stig Dagerman
• Marianne Fredriksson
• Gustaf Fröding
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
• Jan Guillou
• Eyvind Johnson
• Pär Lagerkvist
• Selma Lagerlöf, Nobel Prize for Literature 1909, author of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (novel), The Emperor of Portugallia
• Astrid Lindgren
• Henning Mankell (born 1948)
• Harry Martinson
• Vilhelm Moberg
• Peter Pohl
• Hjalmar Söderberg
• Esaias Tegnér

Switzerland

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), The Quarry
• Max Frisch (1911–1991), Stiller (1954) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)
• Christian Kracht (born 1966)

Republic of China|Taiwan

• Pai Hsien-yung
• Sanmao

Tanzania

• Mark Behr, also connected with South Africa
• Euphrase Kezilahabi (born 1944)
• Abdulrazak Gurnah

Togo

• David Ananou (1917–2000)
• Richard Dogbeh, also connected with Benin, Senegal and Ivory Coast (1932–2003)
• Kossi Efoui (born 1962)
• Lauryn, also connected with Benin and Togo, born in France (born 1978)

Trinidad and Tobago

• Michael Anthony
• Earl Lovelace
• V. S. Naipaul (born 1932)
• Lakshmi Persaud
• Monique Roffey
• Lawrence Scott
• Samuel Selvon

Tunisia

• Hédi Bouraoui (born 1932)
• Albert Memmi (born 1920)

Turkey

• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
• Ahmet Ümit
• Ayşe Kulin
• Aziz Nesin
• Buket Uzuner
• Elif Şafak
• Haldun Taner
• Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil

• Hasan Ali Toptaş
• Kemal Tahir, author of Yorgun Savaşçı, Devlet Ana, Karılar Koğuşu
• Metin Kaçan
• Oguz Atay
• Oktay Rifat
• Orhan Kemal, author of Bekçi Murtaza,
• Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of My Name Is Red and The White Castle
• Ömer Sevinçgül

• Reşat Nuri Güntekin
• Rıfat Ilgaz
• Sabahattin Ali
• Sevim Burak
• Sabri Gürses
• Yahya Kemal
• Yaşar Kemal, author of Mehmed, My Hawk
• Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
• Yusuf Atilgan

Uganda

• Moses Isegawa
• China Keitetsi

Ukraine

• Emma Andijewska (born 1931)
• Andrey Kurkov (born 1961)
• Larisa Alexandrovna (born 1971)

United Kingdom

England

See: List of English novelists

Scotland

See: List of Scottish novelists

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)

Northern Ireland

• Colin Bateman (born 1962), Divorcing Jack
• Ronan Bennett (born 1956), The Catastrophist
• Joyce Cary (1888–1957), The Horse's Mouth
• Paul Kearney, Monarchies of God
• Benedict Kiely (1919–2007)
• Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
• Brian Moore (1921–1999), The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
• Flann O'Brien (1911–1966), The Third Policeman
• Amanda McKittrick Ross (1860–1939)

See also: List of Northern Irish writers and List of Irish novelists

United States

See: List of novelists from the United States

Uruguay

• Eduardo Galeano (born 1940), writer and social commentator.
• Mario Benedetti (1920–2009), Uruguay's best-known novelist
• Jorge Majfud (born 1969)
• Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1997)
• Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937)
• Juana de Ibarbourou (1892–1979)
• Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924)
• Delmira Agustini (1886–1914)
• Isidore Lucien Ducasse (1846–1870), born in Montevideo though French by nationality
• José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher

Venezuela

• Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (1921–1990)
• Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944)
• Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897–1958)
• Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (1871–1927)
• Mercedes Franco (born 1948)
• Alicia Freilich (born 1939)
• Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969)

• Salvador Garmendia (1928–2001)
• Adriano González León (1931–2008)
• Francisco Herrera Luque (1927–1991)
• Boris Izaguirre (born 1965)
• Eduardo Liendo (born 1941)
• Francisco Massiani (born 1944)
• Guillermo Meneses (1911–1978)

• Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985)
• Gustavo Ott (born 1963)
• Julián Padrón (1910–1964)
• Teresa de la Parra (1889–1936)
• Mariano Picón Salas (1901–1965)
• Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001)

Vietnam

• Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) Paradise of the Blind
• Pham Thi Hoai (born 1960)
• Phung Le Ly Hayslip (born 1949) When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
• Bao Ninh (born 1952)

Yiddish

• Sholom Asch (1880–1957)
• David Bergelson (1884–1952)
• Der Nister (1884–1950)
• Shira Gorshman (1906–2001)
• Chaim Grade (1910–1982)
• Esther Kreitman (1891–1954)
• Mendele Moykher Sforim (1836–1917), pseudonym for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
• Joseph Opatoshu (1886–1954)
• Yitzok Lebesh Peretz (1852–1915)
• Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991)
• Israel Joshua Singer (1893–1944)
• Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880–1970)

Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)

• Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 1959)
• Chenjerai Hove (born 1956)
• Doris Lessing, born in Persia (now Iran) (born 1919)
• Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987)
• Nozipa Maraire (born 1966)
• Charles Mungoshi (born 1947)
• Solomon Mutswairo (born 1924)
• Alexander McCall Smith, also connected with Botswana (born 1948)
• Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988)
• Yvonne Vera, also connected with Canada (1964–2005)

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