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

Contents 1 Albania 2 Algeria 3 Ancient Latin Authors 4 Angola 5 Argentina 6 Armenia 7 Assyrian 8 Australia 9 Austria 10 Bangladesh 11 Belarus 12 Belgium 13 Benin 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina 15 Botswana 16 Brazil 17 Burkina Faso 18 Cameroon 19 Canada 20 Cape Verde 21 Catalonia 22 Chad 23 Chile 24 China 25 Colombia 26 Congo-Brazzaville 27 Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Zaire) 28 Cosmopolitan 29 Costa Rica 30 Côte d'Ivoire 31 Croatia 32 Cuba 33 Czech Republic 34 Denmark 35 Djibouti 36 Ecuador 37 Egypt 38 Equatorial Guinea 39 Estonia 40 Ethiopia 41 Finland 42 France 43 Gabon 44 Gambia 45 Germany 46 Ghana 47 Greece 48 Guinea 49 Guinea-Bissau 50 Haïti 51 Honduras 52 Hungary 53 Iceland 54 India 55 Iran 56 Ireland 57 Israel 58 Italy 59 Jamaica 60 Japan 61 Kenya 62 Kosovo 63 Kurdland 64 Latvia 65 Lebanon 66 Lesotho 67 Republic of Macedonia 68 Madagascar 69 Malawi 70 Malaysia 71 Mali 72 Malta 73 Mauritania 74 Mauritius 75 Mexico 76 Morocco 77 Mozambique 78 Nepal 79 Netherlands 80 New Zealand 81 Nigeria 82 Norway 83 Pakistan 84 Paraguay 85 Philippines 86 Peru 87 Poland 88 Portugal 89 Puerto Rico 90 Romania 91 Russia 92 Rwanda 93 Samoa 94 São Tomé and Príncipe 95 Senegal 96 Serbia 97 Sierra Leone 98 Somalia 99 South Africa 100 South Korea 101 Spain 102 Sri Lanka 103 Sudan 104 Sweden 105 Switzerland 106 Tanzania 107 Togo 108 Trinidad and Tobago 109 Tunisia 110 Turkey 111 Uganda 112 Ukraine 113 United Kingdom 113.1 England 113.2 Scotland 113.3 Wales 113.4 Northern Ireland 114 United States 115 Uruguay 116 Venezuela 117 Vietnam 118 Yiddish 119 Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)

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

• Apuleius
• 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
• Terrence Malick

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
• Meer Abdullah Harun
• Taslima Nasrin
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Faruk Miah

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
• Anne Provoost
• 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
• Alexander von Rudloff

Brazil

• Jorge Amado
• Clarice Lispector
• 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)
• Christopher G. Moore, (born 1952)
• 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

Catalonia

• Raimon Llull, (1235-1315)
• Ramon Muntaner, (circa 1270-1336)
• Joanot Martorell, (1413-1468)
• Narcís Oller, (1846-1930)
• Mercè Rodoreda, (1909-1983)

Chad

• Marie-Christine Koundja (1957– )

Pep Coll

Chile

• Allende, Isabel
• Calderón, Teresa
• Coloane, Francisco
• Donoso, José
• Guelfenbein, Carla
• Lillo, Baldomero
• Gumucio, Manuela
• Maturana, Andrea
• Rojas, Manuel
• Sepúlveda, Luis
• Serrano, Marcela
• Valdivieso, Mercedes

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 (author)
• 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

• Héctor Abad Faciolince, (1958– ), author of Angosta(2004), The Oblivion We Shall Be (2006)
• 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)
• Morten Korch, (1876–1954)
• Carl Erik Soya, (1896–1983)

Djibouti

• Mouna-Hodan Ahmed (1972– )
• Waberi Abdourahman (1965– )

Ecuador

• P. Jaramillo Alvarado
• Enrique Gil Gilbert
• Luis A. Martínez
• Juan Montalvo
• Isacovici Salomon
• Alicia Yánez

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– )
• Yousef Idris
• Ihsan Abdul-Koddus

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, (1920–2007)
• Juhan Liiv (1864–1913)
• Tõnu Õnnepalu, (aka Emil Tode, 1962– )
• Kersti Merilaas, (1913–1986)
• 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– )
• Birhanu Zerihun (1933/4–1987)

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 )

Greece

• George Leonardos,(1937-)

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, (1902–1998), Nobel Prize for Literature (1955)
• Sjón, (1962), The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (2005)

India

See also: Indian literature

• Rammohan Roy, Bengali, English, Sanskrit
• Kaji Nazrul Islam, Bengali, Persian, Arabic
• Jibanananda Das, Bengali
• Buddhadev Bose, Bengali, English
• Samar Sen, Bengali, English
• Tarashankar Banerjee, Bengali
• Bibhutibhushan Banerjee, Bengali
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali
• Manik Bandopadhyay, Bengali
• Lalon Fakir, Bengali
• Dibyendu Palit, Bengali, English
• Vijayakrishnan, Malayalam
• Samaresh Bose, Bengali
• Nirendranath Chakraborty, Bengali
• Subodh Ghosh, Bengali
• Narendranath Mitra, Bengali
• Amit Chaudhuri, English
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, English
• Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali, English, French
• Buddhadev Guha, Bengali
• Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Hindi
• 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
• Ramavriksha Benipuri, Hindi
• Rajkamal Choudhary, Hindi
• David Davidar
• Anita Desai, English
• Kiran Desai, English
• P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi
• Eunice De Souza (born 1940), English
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
• 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
• Sugan Prabhu
• Pankaj Mishra
• Rohinton Mistry, English
• Fakir Mohan Senapati,Oriya
• Gopinath Mohanty,Oriya
• Manoj Das,Oriya
• Sarojini Sahoo, (born 1956) Oriya
• Shobhaa De, English
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali
• R. K. Narayan, (1906–2001), English
• Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi
• Moncy Pothen, English
• Munshi Premchand, (1880–1936), Hindi
• Raja Rao
• Rajashree, English, author of Trust Me
• 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
• Kavisekhara Dr Umar AlishaTelugu Language, written many novel in Telugu. He is a Poet, Freedom Fighter and a Social Reformer.
• Jagadish Mohanty, (born 1951) Oriya
• Harilal Upadhyay, (22-January-1916, 15-January-1994) Gujarati Language
• Kuvempu, Kannada Language
• T P KAilasam, Kannada Language
• Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, Kannada Language
• D.Selvaraj, Tamil Language

Iran

• Hafiz Shirazi
• Saadi Shirazi
• Jami
• Omer Khayyam
• Shemis Tabrizi
• Baba Tahir Hemedani
• Firdosi-Perdisi
• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Azar Nafisi
• Bozorg Alavi
• Dariush Shayegan
• Fereydun Esfandiari
• Houshang Golshiri
• Jamal Mirsadeghi
• Mahmud Doulatabadi
• Reza Baraheni
• Sadegh Hedayat
• Sadiq Chubak
• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Shiva Arastui
• Simin Daneshvar
• Taqi Modarresi
• Zoya Pirzad
• Arash Hejazi
• soumik roy
• ziyad m yousif
• Abbas Maroufi
• Shahryar Mandanipour

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
• 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

• Kōbō 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
• Ichiyō 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
• Minae Mizumura, Light and Darkness Continued, An I-Novel from left to right, A Real Novel
• Ogai Mori, (1862–1922), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
• Haruki Murakami
• Ryu Murakami
• Natsume Sōseki, (1867–1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
• Kenzaburō Ōe (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)
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Nisioisin, (1981–) Kubikiri Cycle (Mephisto Prize, 2002), Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

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

Kosovo

• Sinan Hasani

Kurdland

• Ebdulsamad Babik
• Elî Herîrî
• Maçin
• Elî Termoxî
• Melayê Cizîrî
• Feqiyê Teyran
• Melayê Bateyî
• Ehmedê Xanî
• Qenatê Kurdo
• Haciyê Cindî
• Erebê Şemo
• Ahmedê Nalbend
• Nalî
• Hacî Qadirê Koyî
• Cegerxwîn
• Osman Sebrî
• Sebrî Botanî
• Bedirxan Sindî
• A-Rahman Mizurî
• Seyda Tîrêj
• Seyid Feysel Moctevî
• Jan Dost
• Helîm Yusiv
• Firat Cewerî
• Jana Seyda
• Kovan Sindî
• Abdulla Peşêw
• Narîn Elî
• CanKurd
• Sidqî Hirorî
• Zeynel Abidîn
• Arjen Arî
• Mehmud Uzun

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
• Felix Mnthali

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
• Carmel C. Cauchi
• Trevor Zahra

Mauritania

• Moussa Ould Ebnou

Mauritius

• Carl de Souza (1949– )
• Ananda Devi
• Jean Fanchette
• Abhimanyu Unuth

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"
• Octavio Paz
• 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
• Abdullah Hussain
• Intizar Hussain
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Khadija Mastoor
• Asim Butt
• Naseem Hijazi
• Tahir Javaid Mughal
• Ibn-e-Safi
• Ishtiaq Ahmed
• Mazhar Kaleem MA
• Qurat ul Ain Haider
• Mushtaq Yousufi
• Ibn e Insha
• Tariq Ismail Sagar

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
• Júlio Dinis
• Alexandre Herculano
• Camilo Castelo Branco
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
• Aquilino Ribeiro
• Albino Forjaz de Sampaio, (1884–1949)
• José Saramago, (1922– ), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998
• Vergílio Ferreira
• Miguel Sousa Tavares

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
• Ştefan Agopian
• Max Blecher
• Nicolae Breban
• Augustin Buzura
• Mateiu Caragiale
• George Călinescu
• Mircea Cărtărescu author of Nostalgia
• Gheorghe Crăciun
• Virgil Duda
• Alexandru Ecovoiu
• Mircea Eliade author of Maitreyi
• Mihai Eminescu
• Virgil Gheorghiu
• Panait Istrati
• Alexandru Ivasiuc
• Norman Manea
• Gib Mihăescu
• Mircea Nedelciu
• Costache Negruzzi
• Iacob Negruzzi
• Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
• Dora Pavel
• Camil Petrescu
• Cezar Petrescu
• Dumitru Radu Popescu
• Marin Preda
• Liviu Rebreanu
• Mihail Sadoveanu
• Alexandru Sever
• Zaharia Stancu
• Sorin Titel
• 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, 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, also historian
• 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)

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

See also: Serbian literature

• David Albahari
• Ivo Andrić
• Miodrag Bulatović
• Miloš Crnjanski
• Danilo Kiš
• Milorad Pavić
• Borislav Pekić
• Meša Selimović
• Svetlana Velmar-Janković

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
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)

Sudan

• Tayeb Salih
• Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt
• Leila Aboulela
• Faisal Mustafa
• Jamal Mahjoub

Sweden

See also: List of Swedish language writers

• Stig Dagerman
• 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)
• 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, (1966 –)

Tanzania

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

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
• Kemal Tahir, author of "Yorgun Savaşçı", "Devlet Ana", "Karılar Koğuşu"
• Mehmed Rauf
• Metin Kaçan
• M. Murat İldan
• Oguz Atay
• Oktay Rifat
• Orhan Kemal, author of "Bekçi Murtaza",
• 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
• Yusuf Atilgan

Uganda

• Moses Isegawa
• China Keitetsi

Ukraine

• Emma Andijewska, (1931– )
• 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)
• 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 (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)

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