This is down to personal opinion. Until you can obtain a unanimous answer from every person who will and ever has lived, you shall have no true answer.
Charles Dickens
All of us
HG WELLS.
English. But you can be a good novelist with out, there's some out there who have even dropped out of college and are NY Times best-sellers.
In 1979, crime novelist Patricia Cornwell was a reporter for the Charlotte Observer. She is considered being a best-selling crime novelist. She gets her inspirations from TV shows.
British Novelist,best known for Tarka the Otter.
Rabindranath is not anywhere near Tolstoy, he is not even the best novelist of Bengal or India. There is no novelist in India who can be compared with Tolstoy.
Yes to playwright, no to novelist. Shakespeare wrote no novels, although some writers of his day were experimenting with the form (see Lyly's Euphues).
A novelist is a writer of fiction, or novels.
Aulsondro Novelist Hamilton goes by Novelist, and Emcee N.I.C.E..
aristotle in his treatise on the subject defined rhetoric
A novelist, or an author, or a writer.