LIST OF NOVELISTS BY NATIONALITY

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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
==Algeria==

★ Marguerite Taos Amrouche (1913–1976)

★ Rachid Boudjedra (1914– )

★ Albert Camus (1913–1960)

★ Mohammed Dib (1920–2003)

★ Tahar Djaout (1954–1993)

★ Assia Djebar (1936– )

★ Frantz Fanon, originally from Martinique (1925–1961)

★ Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962)

★ Mouloud Mammeri (1917–1989)

★ Rachid Mimouni (1945–1995)

★ Ahlam Mostaghanemi

★ Leïla Sebbar

★ Kateb Yacine (1929–1989)
==Ancient Latin Authors==

★ Petronius
==Angola ==

★ José Eduardo Agualusa (1960– )

★ Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990)

★ Mendes de Carvalho

★ Pepetela (Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, 1941– )

★ Oscar Ribas

★ José Luandino Vieira (1935– )
==Argentina==

★ Marcos Aguinis

★ César Aira

★ Federico Andahazi

★ Roberto Arlt

★ Adolfo Bioy Casares

★ Jorge Luis Borges

★ Abelardo Castillo

★ Julio Cortázar, (1914–1984)

★ Macedonio Fernandez

★ Rodolfo Fogwill

★ Ricardo Güiraldes, (1886–1927) ''Don Segundo Sombra''

★ Sylvia Iparraguirre

★ Leopoldo Marechal

★ Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman

★ Andrés Rivera

★ Juan José Saer

★ Ernesto Sábato, ''Sobre Héroes y Tumbas'' (1961)

★ Luisa Valenzuela
==Armenia==

★ Alexander Shirvanzade
==Assyrian==

★ Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

★ Thea Halo

★ Ivan Kakovitch (1933-2006)

★ Montaha Kochou

★ Norman Malek-Yonan

★ Rosie Malek-Yonan

★ Obelit Yadgar
==Australia==
See: List of Australian novelists
==Austria==
See also: German literature

★ Hugo Bettauer

★ Thomas Bernhard

★ Peter Handke, (1942– )

★ Josef Haslinger

★ Peter Henisch

★ Elfriede Jelinek

★ Robert Musil, (1880–1942), ''Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften'' (''The Man Without Qualities'')

★ Joseph Roth (1894–1939), ''The Radetzky March''

★ Arthur Schnitzler

★ Stefan Zweig, (1881–1942)
==Bangladesh==

★ Mohammed Yunus

★ Taslima Nasrin
==Belarus==

★ Vasil Bykaŭ (1924–2003)

★ Uładzimir Karatkievič

★ Jakub Kołas (Kanstancy Mickievič)

★ Janka Kupała (Ivan Łucevič)

★ Ivan Šamiakin (1921–2004)
==Belgium==

★ 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

★ Marnix Gijsen

★ Hubert Lampo

★ Rosalie Loveling

★ Virginie Loveling

★ Maurice Maeterlinck

★ Alice Nahon

★ Amélie Nothomb

★ Maria Rosseels

★ Stijn Streuvels

★ 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, also connected with Senegal

★ Florent Couao-Zotti (1964– )

★ Félix Couchoro, also connected with Togo (1900–1968)

★ Richard Dogbeh, also connected with Togo, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire (1932–2003)

★ Flore Hazoume (1959– ), also connected with Congo-Brazzaville

★ Paul Hazoumé

★ Lauryn, also connected with Côte d'Ivoire and Togo, born in France (1978– )

★ Hortense Mayaba
==Bosnia and Herzegovina==

★ Ivo Andrić, (1892–1975), Nobel Prize for Literature (1961)
==Botswana==

★ Caitlin Davies, born in Britain

★ Unity Dow

★ Bessie Head, born in South Africa

★ Mositi Torontle
==Brazil==

★ Paulo Coelho, (1947– )
==Burkina Faso==

★ Sarah Bouyain (1968– )

★ Monique Ilboudo

★ Honorine Mare (1972– )

★ Suzy Henrique Nikiéma

★ Adiza Sanoussi
==Cameroon==

★ Mongo Beti (pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala)

★ Calixthe Beyala

★ Ferdinand Oyono (1929– )

★ Evelyne Mpoudi Ngole (1953– )

★ Francis Bebey
==Canada==
See also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers

★ Eduardo Paz-Martinez, "Inside The Volcano" (2001)

★ Ranj Dhaliwal, author of ''Daaku''

★ Margaret Atwood, (1939– ), author of ''The Handmaid's Tale'' (1985)

★ Pierre Berton, (1920–2004 )

★ 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

★ Louis Emond

★ Timothy Findley (1930–2002) (See also France)

★ Gayleen Froese

★ Donald Jack,

★ 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)

★ Margaret Marshall Saunders, (1861–1947)

★ Carol Shields, (1935–2003)

★ Catharine Parr Traill, (1802–1899)

★ Roland Michel Tremblay, (1972– )

★ Jane Urquhart, (1949– )
==Cape Verde==

★ Germano Almeida (1945– )

★ Manuel Lopes

★ Dina Salústio (1941– )

★ Rosa de Saron
==Chad==

★ Marie-Christine Koundja (1957– )
==Chile==

★ Allende, Isabel

★ Coloane, Francisco

★ Donoso, José

★ Rojas, Manuel

★ Sepúlveda, Luis
==China==
See also: Chinese literature

★ Ang Li

★ Cao Xueqin, (circa 1715–1763), author of ''Dream of the Red Chamber''

★ Dai Sijie, author of ''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress''

★ Gao Xingjian, exile and Nobel laureate

★ Han Shaogong, (born 1953)

★ Lao She, (1899–1966), author of ''Si Shi Tong Tang''

★ Li Yu

★ Lu Xun, (1881–1936), author of ''The True Story of Ah Q'' and first modernist writer in China

★ Mao Dun, (1896–1981), author of ''Zi Ye''

★ Mo Yan, author of ''Red Sorghum''

★ Qian Zhongshu, (1910–1998), author of ''Wei Cheng''

★ Wang Shuo

★ Wei Jingsheng, democracy activist and political prisoner

★ Zhang Ailing, (1920–1995), female romantic story writer
==Colombia==

★ Jaime Manrique

★ 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''
==Congo-Brazzaville==

★ Jeannette Balou Tchichelle (1947– )

★ Noëlle Bizi Bazouma (1959– )

★ Emmanuel Dongala

★ Aleth Felix-Tchicaya (1955– )

★ Flore Hazoume (1959– ), also connected with Benin

★ Francine Laurans (1962– )

★ Ghislaine Sathoud (1969– )
==Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Zaire)==

★ Amba Bongo

★ Maguy Kabamba (1960– )

★ Sony Labou Tansi (1947–1995)

★ V. Y. Mudimbe (1941– )

★ Yamusangie, Frederick Kambemba
==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, author of ''The Satanic Verses''
==Costa Rica==

★ Joaquín García Monge (1881 – 1958)
==Côte d'Ivoire==

★ Josette D. Abondio

★ Anne-Marie Adiaffi (1951– )

★ Marie-Danielle Aka

★ Assamala Amoi, born in France (1960– )

★ Michele Assamoua, originally from France (1941– )

★ Khadi Sy Bizet

★ Fatou Bolli

★ Tanella Boni

★ Isabelle Boni-Claverie

★ Marie Anne Caro

★ Micheline Coulibaly, born in Vietnam (1950–2003)

★ Marion Diby Zinnanti (1960– )

★ Richard Dogbeh, also connected with Benin, Senegal and Togo (1932–2003)

★ Oklomin Kacou

★ Simone Kaya (1937– )

★ Alimatou Koné

★ Boundou Koné

★ Ahmadou Kourouma (1927–2003)

★ Lauryn, also connected with Togo and Benin, born in France (1978– )

★ Mariama Méité (1967– )

★ Isabelle Montplaisir

★ Goley Niantié Lou

★ Marinette Secco, born in France (1921– )

★ Haïdara Fatoumata Sirantou

★ Véronique Tadjo (1955– )

★ Werewere-Liking Gnepo, also connected with Cameroon (1950– )

★ Caroline Angèle Yao

★ Regina Yaou (1955– )
==Croatia==
See also: Croatian literature

★ Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981)

★ Ivo Andrić (1892–1975)

★ Ivan Aralica (1930– )

★ Tomislav Ladan (1932– )
==Cuba==

★ Reinaldo Arenas

★ Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980)

★ Daína Chaviano

★ Jose Lezama Lima

★ Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955)
==Czech Republic==
See also: Literature of the Czech Republic

★ Karel Čapek, (1890–1938) inventor of the word ''robot'', moralist, ironist, Czech patriot

★ Jaroslav Hašek, (1883–1923), author of ''The Good Soldier Svejk''

★ Bohumil Hrabal, (1914–1997), author of ''Closely Watched Trains'', died trying to feed pigeons.

★ Milan Kundera, (born 1929) author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

★ Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1984)
==Denmark==
See also: List of Danish authors

★ 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)

★ Peter Kjærulff (1946– )
==Djibouti==

★ Mouna-Hodan Ahmed (1972– )

★ Waberi Abdourahman (1965– )
==Ecuador==

★ P. Jaramillo Alvarado

★ Enrique Gil Gilbert

★ Luis A. Martínez

★ Juan Montalvo

★ Isacovici Salomon
==Egypt==

★ Gamal Al-Ghitani

★ Naguib Mahfouz, (1911-2006) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the ''Cairo Trilogy'' about life in the sprawling inner city.

★ Alifa Rifaat

★ Ahdaf Soueif

★ Sonallah Ibrahim, (1937– )
==Equatorial Guinea==

★ María Nsué Angüe (1945– )

★ Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (1950– )

★ Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (1966– )
==Estonia==

★ Jüri Ehlvest, (1967– )

★ Kaur Kender, (1971– )

★ Heiti Kender, (1973– )

★ Albert Kivikas, (1898–1978)

★ Kadri Kõusaar, (1980– )

★ Jaan Kross, (1920– )

★ Juhan Liiv (1864–1913)

★ Tõnu Õnnepalu, (aka Emil Tode, 1962– )

★ Lilli Promet, (1922–2007)

★ Karl Ristikivi, (1912–1977)

★ Anton Hansen Tammsaare, (1878–1940)

★ Heiki Vilep, (1960– )
==Ethiopia==

★ Innānu Āggonāfir (pseudonym of Nagāsh Gabra Māryām)

★ Haddis Alemayehu

★ Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus

★ Moges Kebede

★ Nega Mezlekia

★ Girmācchaw Takla Hāwāryāt

★ Kebede Michael

★ Hama Tuma (1949– )

★ Birhānu Zarīhun
==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
==Gabon==

★ Jean-Baptiste Abessolo (1932– )

★ Bessora (born in Belgium) (1968– )

★ Rene Maran, born near Martinique (1887–1960)

★ Chantal Magalie Mbazoo-Kassa

★ Justine Mintsa (1967– )

★ Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri
==Gambia==

★ Alhagi Kah

★ Lenrie Peters
==Germany==
See also: German literature

★ Heinrich Böll, (1917–1985)

★ Alfred Döblin, (1878–1957), author of ''Berlin Alexanderplatz''

★ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832), polymath.

★ Günter Grass, (1927– ), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)

★ Hermann Hesse, (1877–1962), author of ''The Glass Bead Game'', ''Steppenwolf'', Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)

★ Daniel Kehlmann, (1975 –)

★ Heinrich von Kleist, (1777–1811)

★ 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)

★ Sten Nadolny, (born 1942), author of ''The Discovery of Slowness''

★ Patrick Süskind (1949– ), author of ''Perfume''
==Ghana==

★ Ama Ata Aidoo (1940– )

★ Ayi Kwei Armah

★ Bediako Asare, also connected with Tanzania

★ Kofi Awoonor (1935– )

★ William Boyd

★ Akosua Busia

★ J.E. Casely-Hayford

★ Amma Darko

★ Cameron Duodu, author of ''The Gab Boys'' (1967)

★ Marilyn Heward-Mills, author of ''The Cloth Girl'' (2006)

★ Efua Theodora Sutherland (1924–1996 )
==Guinea==

★ Sirah Balde de Labe

★ Kesso Barry (1948– )

★ Mariama Barry, also connected with Senegal

★ Laye Camara

★ Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (1956– )

★ Tierno Monénembo

★ Williams Sassine
==Guinea-Bissau==

★ Nadine Nyangoma, born in Belgium
==Haïti==

★ Frankétienne (born 1936)

★ Clark Parent (born 1951)

★ Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)
==Honduras==

★ Marcos Carías Zapata (born 1938)

★ Roberto Castillo (1950)

★ Julio Escoto (born 1944)

★ Javier Abril Espinoza (born 1967)

★ Lucila Gamero (1873–1964)

★ Roberto Quesada (born 1951)
==Hungary==

★ Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932)

★ Mihály Babits (1883-1941)

★ György Dalos (1943– )

★ József Eötvös (1813-1871)

★ Péter Esterházy (1950-)

★ István Fekete (1900–1970) author of Vuk

★ Jenő Heltai (1871–1957)

★ Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954)

★ Mór Jókai (1825–1904) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 19th c.

★ Margit Kaffka (1880–1918)

★ Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) author of scifi novels

★ József Kármán (1768-1795)

★ Zsigmond Kemény (1814–1875)

★ Imre Kertész (1929– ), Nobel Prize for Literature (2002)

★ János Kodolányi (1899–1969)

★ György Konrád (1933-)

★ Károly Kós (1883-1977)

★ Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936)

★ László Krasznahorkai (1954-)

★ Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933)

★ Ervin Lázár (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 c.

★ Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922) author of popular historical novels

★ Kálmán Mikszáth (1847—1910)

★ Péter Nádas (1942-)

★ László Németh (1901–1975)

★ Géza Ottlik (1912-1990)

★ Jenő Rejtő (1905-1943)

★ Henriett Seth F. (1980-) author of a scifi novel, 2006

★ Magda Szabó (1917-) author of The Door

★ Sándor Szathmári [1897–1974) author of Kazohinia

★ Antal Szerb (1901-1945) author of Journey by Moonlight

★ Áron Tamási (1897-1966)

★ Sándor Török (1904–1985) author of children's novels

★ Albert Wass (1908-1998)
==Iceland==

★ Snorri Sturluson, (1179–1241), author of the ''Younger Edda''

★ Halldór Laxness, (1903–1998), Nobel Prize for Literature (1955)
==India==
See also: Indian literature

★ Vikram Chandra, English

★ Upamanyu Chatterjee, (born 1959), English

★ Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894), Bengali also wrote ‘Vande Mataram’

★ Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali

★ Amit Chaudhuri, (born 1962), English

★ David Davidar

★ Anita Desai, English

★ Kiran Desai, English

★ P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi

★ Eunice De Souza (born 1940), English

★ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

★ Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali

★ Amitav Ghosh, English

★ Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912) Bengali

★ Raj Kamal Jha, English

★ Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979) Marathi

★ Amita Kanekar, author of ''A Spoke in the Wheel''

★ Prakash Kona

★ Jhumpa Lahiri

★ Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) Marathi & English

★ Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938) Marathi

★ Kamala Markandaya

★ Pankaj Mishra

★ Rohinton Mistry, English

★ Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali

★ R. K. Narayan, (1906–2001), English

★ Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi

★ Moncy Pothen, English

★ Munshi Premchand, (1880–1936), Hindi

★ Raja Rao

★ Satyajit Ray, Bengali

★ Arundhati Roy, English

★ Salman Rushdie, (born 1947), English

★ Vilas Sarang (born 1942) Marathi & English

★ Vikram Seth, author of ''A Suitable Boy''

★ Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel laureate

★ Shashi Tharoor, English

★ Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bengali also educator & social reformer
==Iran==

★ Abbas Marufi

★ Afshin Ellian

★ Ahmad Mahmoud

★ Akhtar Naraghi

★ Azar Nafisi

★ Bozorg Alavi

★ Dariush Shayegan

★ Fereydun Esfandiari

★ Fereydoun Hoveyda

★ Houshang Golshiri

★ Jamal Mirsadeghi

★ Kader Abdolah

★ Mahmud Doulatabadi

★ Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist

★ Mohammad Hejazi

★ Nassim Khaksar

★ Reza Baraheni

★ Rosie Malek-Yonan

★ Sadegh Hedayat

★ Sadiq Chubak

★ Jalal Al-E Ahmad

★ Shahrnush Parsipur

★ Shiva Arastui

★ Simin Daneshvar

★ Taqi Modarresi

★ Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei
==Ireland==
See: Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists
==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''

★ Avraham B. Yehoshua, ''A Late Divorce'', ''Mr. Mani''
==Italy==
See also: Italian literature, List of Italian writers

★ Riccardo Bacchelli

★ Alessandro Baricco

★ Giorgio Bassani

★ 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, ''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, revolutionary

★ Massimo D'Azeglio

★ Dario de Judicibus

★ 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

★ Elsa Morante

★ Alberto Moravia

★ Elina Patanè

★ 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

★ Antonio Tabucchi, ''Declares Pereira'' (1994)

★ Susanna Tamaro

★ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, ''The Leopard''

★ Giovanni Verga

★ Elio Vittorini
==Jamaica==

★ Opal Palmer Adisa

★ John La Rose

★ Patricia Powell

★ Andrew Salkey
==Japan==
See also: Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors

★ Kobo Abe (1924–1993) ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic Chalk''

★ Ryūnosuke 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''

★ Shizuko Go

★ Kaoru Hayamine, ''Yumemizu Kiyoshiro'' mysteries

★ 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''

★ Haruki Murakami

★ Ryu Murakami

★ Natsume Sōseki, (1867–1916), ''Kokoro'', ''I Am a Cat''

★ Kenzaburo Oe (1935– ) ''Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids'', ''A Personal Matter'' (Nobel Prize, 1994)

★ Murasaki Shikibu

★ Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) ''Some Prefer Nettles'', ''The Makioka Sisters''

★ Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965)

★ Hisaye Yamamoto]

★ Banana Yoshimoto
==Kenya==

★ Margaret Ogola

★ Grace Ogot (1930– )

★ M.G. Vassanji (1950– )

★ Ngugi wa Thiong'o, (1938– ), ''The River Between'', ''Caitaani muthara-Ini'', ''Matigari''

★ Meja Mwangi (1948– )

★ Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen (1885–1962)

★ Parselelo Kantai

★ Francis Imbuga
==Latvia==

★ Pauls Bankovskis

★ Alberts Bels

★ Anšlavs Eglītis

★ Nora Ikstena

★ Andrejs Upīts

★ Marģeris Zariņš

★ Egils Venters

★ Aleksandrs Čaks

★ Visvaldis Lāms

★ Zigmunds Skujiņš
==Lebanon==

★ Hanan Al-Shaykh

★ Youssef Howayek (writer and sculptor)

★ Elias Khoury

★ Amin Maalouf
==Lesotho==

★ Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948)

★ Mzamane Nhlapo
==Republic of Macedonia==

★ Slavko Janevski

★ Venko Andonovski
==Madagascar==

★ Michèle Rakotoson
==Malawi==

★ Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
==Malaysia==

★ Catherine Lim

★ John Ling

★ K. S. Maniam
==Mali==

★ Amadou Hampâté Bâ

★ Aïda Mady Diallo

★ Doumbi Fakoly (1944– )

★ Aïcha Fofana (1957–2003)

★ Moussa Konaté

★ Yambo Ouologuem (1940– )

★ Fanta-Taga Tembely (1946– )
==Malta==

★ Sabine Cassar-Alpert (1959– ), author of ''Angelina's Ghost''
==Mauritania==

★ Moussa Ould Ebnou
==Mauritius==

★ Carl de Souza (1949– )

★ Ananda Devi

★ Jean Fanchette
==Mexico==

★ Eduardo Paz-Martinez, author of "Inside the Volcano" (2001) and "The Rain in Spain" (2003)

★ Sandra Cisneros, "The House on Mango Street"

★ Laura Esquivel

★ Carlos Fuentes, "The Old Gringo"

★ Martín Luis Guzmán

★ Vicky Nizri

★ José Emilio Pacheco

★ Juan Rulfo
==Morocco==
''see also Literature of Morocco''

★ Mohamed Choukri

★ Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007)

★ Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917– )

★ Abdelkebir Khatibi

★ Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine

★ Laila Lalami

★ Ahmed Sefrioui

★ Mohamed Zafzaf
==Mozambique==

★ Paulina Chiziane (1955– )

★ Mia Couto (1955– )

★ Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

★ Lina Magaia

★ Glória de Santana (1925– )
==Nepal==

★ Samrat Upadhyay
==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==
See also: New Zealand literature

★ 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)
==Nigeria==
See: List of Nigerian writers
==Norway==
See also: Norwegian literature

★ 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

★ Axel Sandemose

★ Gabriel Scott

★ Dag Solstad

★ Sigrid Undset, ''Kristin Lavrandsdatter''

★ Tarjei Vesaas

★ Herbjørg Wassmo
==Pakistan==
See also: Pakistani literature

★ Ahmed Ali

★ Tariq Ali

★ Zulfikar Ghose

★ Mohsin Hamid

★ Saadat Hasan Manto, born in India

★ Uzma Aslam Khan

★ Kamila Shamsie

★ Bapsi Sidhwa

★ Ahmed Hamid
==Paraguay==

★ Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (b. 1944)

★ Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)
==Philippines==
See also: Literature of the Philippines

★ Francisco Arcellana

★ Enrico Antiporda

★ Lualhati Bautista

★ Carlos Bulosan

★ Jose Dalisay

★ Lazaro Francisco

★ Eric Gamalinda

★ N.V.M. Gonzalez

★ Jessica Hagedorn

★ Amado Hernandez

★ Stevan Javellana

★ Nick Joaquin

★ Maximo Kalaw

★ Edgardo Reyes

★ Jose Rizal

★ Ninotchka Rosca

★ Bienvenido Santos

★ Lope K. Santos

★ Rogelio Sicat

★ F. Sionil Jose

★ Edilberto Tiempo

★ Edith Tiempo

★ Linda Ty-Casper
==Peru==

★ Ciro Alegría, {1909–1967)

★ José María Arguedas, (1911–1969)

★ Mario Vargas Llosa, (1936– ), ran for president, author of ''Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter''
==Poland==
See also: Polish literature

★ Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965)

★ Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939)

★ Tadeusz Konwicki (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==

★ António Lobo Antunes

★ Fernando de Campos

★ Eça de Queirós

★ Aquilino Ribeiro

★ Albino Forjaz de Sampaio, (1884–1949)

★ José Saramago, (1922– ), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998

★ Vergílio Ferreira
==Puerto Rico==

★ 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

★ T.O. Bobe

★ Nicolae Breban

★ Mateiu Caragiale

★ George Călinescu

★ Mircea Cărtărescu

★ Ioan Mihai Cochinescu

★ Virgil Gheorghiu

★ Panait Istrati

★ Alexandru Ivasiuc

★ Mircea Nedelciu

★ Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu

★ Camil Petrescu

★ D. R. Popescu

★ Marin Preda

★ Liviu Rebreanu

★ Doina Ruşti

★ Mihail Sadoveanu

★ Constantin Ţoiu

★ Duiliu Zamfirescu
See also: Romanian literature
==Russia==
See also: Russian literature

★ 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'', ''The Possessed''

★ 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– ), ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'', also historian

★ Aleksey K. Tolstoy, (1817–1875)

★ Aleksey N. Tolstoy, (1883–1945)

★ Leo Tolstoy, (1828–1910)

★ Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)
==Rwanda==

★ Thérèse Muamini
==Samoa==

★ Sia Figiel (born 1967)

★ Albert Wendt (born 1939)
==São Tomé and Príncipe==

★ Olinda Beja (1946– )

★ Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990)
==Senegal==
See: List of Senegalese writers
==Serbia

Contents

Sierra Leone==

★ Syl Cheney-Coker

★ Aminatta Forna (b. 1964)
==Somalia==

★ Adam I. AwXirsi

★ Maxamed Daahir Afrax

★ Faarax MJ Cawl

★ Nuruddin Farah (1945– )

★ Abdi Sheik Abdi

★ Waris Dirie
==South Africa==
See: List of South African writers
==South Korea==
See: List of Korean novelists
==Spain==
See:List of Spanish language authors. See: Spanish Literature

★ Leopoldo Alas, author of 'La Regenta'

★ Miguel de Cervantes, : ''El Quijote'', or ''Don Quixote''

★ Pérez Galdós

★ Juan Goytisolo: ''El sitio de los sitios''

★ Javier Marías

★ 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'', ''Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste''

★ Miguel de Unamuno: ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''

★ Antonio Muñoz Molina: ''Beltenebros''
==Sri Lanka==

★ Shyam Selvadurai
==Sudan==

★ Tayeb Salih

★ Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt

★ Leila Aboulela

★ Jamal Mahjoub
==Sweden==
See also: List of Swedish language writers

★ Marianne Fredriksson

★ Gustaf Fröding

★ Erik Gustaf Geijer

★ Jan Guillou

★ Eyvind Johnson

★ Pär Lagerkvist

★ Selma Lagerlöf

★ Astrid Lindgren

★ Harry Martinson

★ Vilhelm Moberg

★ Per Nilsson

★ Peter Pohl

★ August Strindberg (1849–1912)

★ Esaias Tegnér
==Switzerland==

★ Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), ''The Quarry''

★ Max Frisch (1911–1991), ''Stiller'' (1954) (''I'm Not Stiller''), ''Mein Name sei Gantenbein'' (1964)
==Tanzania==

★ Mark Behr, also connected with South Africa

★ Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944– )

★ Shafi Adam Shafi
==Togo==

★ Gad Ami (1958– )

★ David Ananou (1917–2000)

★ Félix Couchoro, also connected with Benin (1900–1968)

★ Richard Dogbeh, also connected with Benin, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire (1932–2003)

★ Kossi Efoui (1962– )

★ Christiane Akoua Ekue (1954– )

★ Lauryn, also connected with Benin and Togo, born in France (1978– )
==Trinidad and Tobago==

★ V. S. Naipaul, (born 1932)

★ Lakshmi Persaud
==Tunisia==

★ Hédi Bouraoui (1932– )

★ Albert Memmi (1920– )
==Turkey==

★ Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

★ Ahmet Mithat

★ Ahmet Rasim

★ Ahmet Ümit

★ Ayşe Kulin

★ Aziz Nesin

★ Bilge Karasu, author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"

★ Buket Uzuner

★ Cem Akaş

★ Cemil Meriç

★ Elif Şafak

★ Ertugrul Oğuz Fırat, author of "Sevicira"

★ Fakir Baykurt

★ Haldun Taner

★ Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil

★ Hasan Ali Toptaş

★ Mehmed Rauf

★ Metin Kaçan

★ Oktay Rifat

★ Orhan Kemal

★ Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"

★ Peyami Safa

★ Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem

★ Reşat Enis

★ Reşat Nuri Güntekin

★ Rıfat Ilgaz

★ Sabahattin Ali

★ Sabri Gürses

★ Sadık Yalsızuçanlar

★ Selim İleri

★ Tarık Buğra

★ Yahya Kemal

★ Yaşar Kemal, author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"

★ Yaşar Nabi Nayır

★ Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
==Uganda==

★ Moses Isegawa

★ China Keitetsi
==Ukraine==

★ Andrey Kurkov, (1961– )

★ Larisa Alexandrovna, (1971– )
==United Kingdom

=England===
:''See: List of English novelists
===Scotland===
:''See: List of Scottish novelists
===Wales===

★
★ 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)

★
★ Mark Robson

★ Welsh language

★
★ Daniel Owen, (1836–1895)

★
★ Kate Roberts, (1891–1985)
:''See also: List of Welsh writers
===Northern Ireland===

★ Colin Bateman, (1962– ), ''Divorcing Jack''

★ Ronan Bennett, (1956– ), ''The Catastrophist''

★ Joyce Cary, ''The Horse's Mouth''

★ Paul Kearney, ''Monarchies of God''

★ Benedict Kiely

★ Bernard MacLaverty, ''Cal''

★ Brian Moore, ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne''

★ Flann O'Brien, ''The Third Policeman''

★ Amanda McKittrick Ross
:''See also: List of Northern Irish writers and List of Irish novelists
==United States==
See: List of novelists from the United States
==Uruguay==
See: Culture of Uruguay

★ Eduardo Galeano, writer and social commentator renowned throughout Latin America

★ Mario Benedetti, Uruguay's best-known novelist

★ Jorge Majfud

★ Juan Carlos Onetti

★ Horacio Quiroga

★ Juana de Ibarbourou

★ Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira

★ Delmira Agustini

★ Isidore Lucien Ducasse, born in Montevideo though French by nationality

★ José Enrique Rodó Considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher Encyclopædia Britannica
==Venezuela==

★ Rómulo Gallegos, (1884–1969) ''Canaima'', ''Doña Bárbara''
==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)

★ Sholom 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 (1959– )

★ Chenjerai Hove (1956– )

★ Doris Lessing, born in Persia (now Iran) (1919– )

★ Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987)

★ Nozipa Maraire (1966– )

★ Charles Mungoshi

★ Solomon Mutswairo (1924– )

★ Alexander McCall Smith, also connected with Botswana (1948– )

★ Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988)

★ Yvonne Vera, also connected with Canada (1964–2005)