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List of novelists
Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:
See also : Lists of authors , List of poets , List of playwrights , List of short story authors
Ancient Latin Authors
Jessica Anderson
Thea Astley
Murray Bail
Carmel Bird
John Birmingham
Rolf Boldrewood
Lily Brett , author of Just Like That Geraldine Brooks
Peter Carey
Marcus Clarke
James Clavell , screenwriter , director (of the original The Fly Shogun Bryce Courtenay
Robert Dessaix
Nick Earls
Greg Egan , science fiction
Richard Flanagan
David Foster
Miles Franklin
Joseph Furphy
Helen Garner
Peter Goldsworthy
Kate Grenville
Kerry Greenwood
Traci Harding
Frank Hardy
Xavier Herbert
Dorothy Hewett
George Johnston
Elizabeth Jolley
Thomas Keneally , author of Schindler's Ark 1985 ), on which the film Schindler's List Confederates 1979 )
David Malouf
John Marsden , author of the Tomorrow series
Sandy McCutcheon
Drusilla Modjeska
Frank Moorhouse
Gerald Murnane
Judy Nunn
D.B.C. Pierre , 2003 Booker Prize
Matthew Reilly
Henry Handel Richardson
Jacqui Ross
Nevil Shute
Christina Stead , author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940 )
Randolph Stow
Clinton Walker
Patrick White , Nobel Prize for Literature (1973 ), noted for his examinations of his native land
Tim Winton
Amy Witting
(see also
German literature )
(see also:
Canadian literature ,
List of Canadian writers )
Margaret Atwood , (1939 - ), author of The Handmaid's Tale 1985 )
Pierre Berton , (1920 - )
Marie-Claire Blais , (1939 - )
Morley Callaghan , (1903 -1990 ) author of Strange Fugitive (1928)
Deborah Joy Corey , (1958 - ) winner Books in Canada First Novel Award
Robertson Davies , (1913 -1995 ), author of Fifth Business Réjean Ducharme
Timothy Findley (1930 -2002 ) (See also France )
Hugh MacLennan ,
Margaret Laurence ,
Stephen Leacock Yann Martel , author of "Life of Pi ", 2002 Booker Prize
Rohinton Mistry , (1952 - )
Lucy Maude Montgomery , (1874 -1942 )
Susanna Moodie , (1803 -1885 )
Farley Mowat
Alice Munro , (1931 - )
Michael Ondaatje , (1943 - ), author of The English Patient 1993 )
Mordecai Richler , (1931 -2001 ), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1959 )
Gabrielle Roy , (1909 -1983 )
Carol Shields , (1935 -2003 )
Catharine Parr Traill , (1802 -1899 )
Jane Urquhart , (1949 - )
Raimon Llull , (1235 -1315 ), author of Libre de meravelles
Ramon Muntaner , (circa 1270 -1336 ), author of Cronica
Joanot Martorell , (1413 -1468 ), author of Tirant lo Blanc Narcís Oller , (1846 -1930 ), author of La febre d'or
Mercč Rodoreda , (1909 -1983 ), author of La plaça del diamant
(see also:
Chinese literature )
Lao She , (1899 -1966 ), author of Si Shi Tong Tang
Zhang Ailing , (1920 -1995 ), female romantic story writer
Qian Zhongshu , (1910 -1998 ), author of Wei Cheng
Lu Xun , (1881 -1936 ), author of The True Story of Ah Q
Mao Dun , (1896 -1981 ), author of Zi Ye
Cosmopolitan
(see also:
Croatian literature )
(see also:
Literature of the Czech Republic )
Karel Čapek , (1890 -1938 ) inventor of the word robot Czech patriot
Jaroslav Hasek , (1883 -1923 ), author of The Good Soldier Svejk Václav Havel , (born 1936 , President of Czech Republic (1993 -2003 ) and famous playwright)
Bohumil Hrabal , (1914 -1997 ), author of Closely Watched Trains , died trying to feed pigeons .
Milan Kundera , (born 1929 ) author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being .
Jaroslav Seifert (1901 -1986 ), (Nobel Prize for Literature ) (1984 )
(see also:
Danish Literature )
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 )
See also List of novelists by country: France
(see also: French literature )
Honoré de Balzac , (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine , a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
Albert Camus , (1913-1960)
Alexandre Dumas , (1802-1870), perhaps more movies have been made from his novels than any other; The Count of Monte Cristo films were first made.
Michel Houellebecq , Impact award winner
Gustave Flaubert , (1821-1880)
Anatole France
Victor Hugo , (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Misérables Marcel Proust , (1871-1922)
François Rabelais , (ca. 1493-1553)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau , (1712-1778)
Jean-Paul Sartre , (1905-1980), existentialist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1964 ) (rejected)
Jules Verne , (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction .
Voltaire , (1694-1778), satirist
Emile Zola , (1840-1902), realist
(see also German literature )
Heinrich Böll , (1917 -1985 )
Alfred Döblin , (1878 -1957 ), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921 -1990 ), author of The Visit 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 )
Siegfried Lenz , (1926 - )
Thomas Mann , (1875 -1955 )
Erich Maria Remarque , (1898 -1970 ), author of Im Westen nichts Neues All Quiet on the Western Front 1929 )
Patrick Süskind (1949 - ), author of Perfume
See also Irish fiction , List of Irish novelists , List of Irish short story writers
Samuel Beckett , (1906 -1989 ), Nobel Prize for Literature (1969 )
Brendan Behan , (1923 -1964 )
Roddy Doyle , (1958 -)
Thomas Flanagan , (1923 -2002 )
James Joyce , (1882 -1941 ), author of Ulysses Finnegans Wake Iris Murdoch , (1919 -1999 )
Flann O'Brien , At Swim-Two-Birds Brian O'Nolan , (1911 -1966 ) better known as Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gcopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn...
Laurence Sterne , (1713 -1768 ) played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries before Postmodernism was invented.
Jonathan Swift , (1667 -1745 ) author of biting satires . Gulliver's Travels Bowdlerised into children's literature .
Oscar Wilde , (1854 -1900 ), also a playwright , imprisoned for homosexual Riccardo Bacchelli
Alessandro Baricco
Stefano Benni , journalist , poet , novelist, Terra (1985 ) is most popular work in English
Alberto Bevilacqua
Giovanni Boccaccio
Vitaliano Brancati
Gesualdo Bufalino
Aldo Busi
Dino Buzzati
Italo Calvino , Cosmicomics
Luigi Capuana
Andrea Camilleri
Carlo Cassola
Carlo Collodi
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
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
Susanna Tamaro
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , The Leopard
Giovanni Verga
Elio Vittorini
(see also
Japanese literature ,
List of Japanese authors )
Kobo Abe (1924 -1993 ) The Woman In the Dunes , The Magic Chalk
Ryunosuke Akutagawa , (1892 -1927 ), Rashomon
Osamu Dazai , (1909 -1948 ), No Longer Human , Melos, Run!
Fumiko Enchi (1905 -1986 ) A Tale of False Fortunes , The Waiting Years
Shusaku Endo , (1923 -1996 ) Silence , Deep River
Ichiyo Higuchi , (1872 -1896 ) Child's Play , The Thirteenth Night
Masuji Ibuse , (1898 -1993 ) Black Rain
Yasunari Kawabata (1899 -1972 ) Snow Country , The Izu Dancer (Winner of the Nobel Prize , 1968 )
Yukio Mishima , (1925 -1970 ), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , Confessions of a Mask
Kenji Miyazawa , (1896 -1933 ) Night Train to the Stars , Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Ogai Mori , (1862 -1922 ), The Wild Goose , The Dancing Girl
Soseki Natsume , (1867 -1916 ), Kokoro , I Am a Cat
Kenzaburo Oe (1935 -) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids , A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize , 1994 )
Junichiro Tanizaki (1886 -1965 ) Some Prefer Nettles , The Makioka Sisters
Edogawa Rampo (1894 - 1965 )
(see also:
Norwegian literature )
(see also:
Pakistani literature )
(see also:
Polish literature )
(see also:
Romanian literature )
Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956 ), Nostalgia (1993 ), Orbitor II (2002 ),
Ion Creangă (1839 -1889 ),
Mircea Eliade (1907 -1986 ),
Panait Istrati (1884 -1935 ),
Camil Petrescu (1894 -1957 ), Patul lui Procust (1933 ),
Marin Preda (1927 -1980 ), Moromeţii (1956 ),
Liviu Rebreanu (1885 -1944 ), Ion (1920 ),
Mihail Sadoveanu (1880 -1961 ), Fraţii Jderi (1935 -1942 ),
Ioan Slavici (1848 -1925 ), Moara cu noroc (1860 ),
Vasile Voiculescu (1884 -1963 ), Zahei orbul 1952 ;
(see also:
Russian literature )
Andrey Bely , (1880 -1934 )
Mikhail Bulgakov , (1891 -1940 ), author of The Master and Margarita
Fyodor Dostoyevsky , (1821 -1881 ), author of The Brothers Karamazov , The Possessed
Nikolai Gogol , (1809 -1852 ), author of Dead Souls
Ivan Goncharov , (1812 -1891 ), Oblomov Mikhail Lermontov , (1814 -1841 )
Nikolai Leskov , (1831 -1895 )
Eduard Limonov , author of It's Me, Eddie and Memoir of a Russian Punk
Vladimir Nabokov , (1899 -1977 ) early novels in Russian , later, including Lolita English .
Boris Pasternak , (1890 -1960 ), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature , Doctor Zhivago
Aleksandr Pushkin , (1799 -1837 )
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , (1826 -1889 )
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , (1918 - ), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksey K. Tolstoy , (1817 -1875 )
Aleksey N. Tolstoy , (1883 -1945 )
Leo Tolstoy , (1828 -1910 ) of whose greatest book it was said, "Loved the war, hated the peace".
See also: List of Swedish language writers
Cem Akas
Ertugrul Oguz Firat , author of "Sevicira "
Metin Kacan
Bilge Karasu , author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"
Yahya Kemal
Yasar Kemal , author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
Orhan Pamuk , author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"
Aziz Nesin
Haldun Taner
See also List of novelists by country: England
J. R. Ackerley
Kingsley Amis
Martin Amis
Lisa Appignanesi
Jane Austen , (1775-1817), author of Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice John Baker , novelist
Nicola Barker
Charlotte Brontë , (1816-1855), author of Jane Eyre Emily Brontë , (1818-1855), author of Wuthering Heights Wallace Breem , (1926-1990)
Anthony Burgess , (1917-1993), composer , essayist , author of A Clockwork Orange Lewis Carroll , (1832-1898), philosopher , logician , photographer , author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Joseph Conrad , (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner , author of Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Charles Dickens , (1812-1870), author of A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations George Eliot , (1819-1880), author of Silas Marner Middlemarch Henry Fielding , (1707-1754), author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of James Bond
James Follet , (born 1939), author of over 20 novels, plus works for radio and television.
E. M. Forster , (1879-1970), author of A Passage to India Maurice John Fowles , (born 1926)
Elizabeth Gaskell , (1810-1865)
Alistair Gentry
William Golding ,(1911-1993), author of Lord of the Flies Graham Greene , (1904-1991), author of The Quiet American The Heart of the Matter Thomas Hardy , (1840-1928), author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles Far From the Madding Crowd Nick Hornby , author of About a Boy Aldous Huxley , (1884-1963), author of Brave New World Christopher Isherwood , (1904-1986)
P.D. James , author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
Rudyard Kipling , author of Kim The Jungle Book Nobel Prize for Literature (1907 )
C. H. B. Kitchin
D. H. Lawrence , (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover Doris Lessing , (born 1919), author of The Golden Notebook
W. Somerset Maugham , (1874-1965), playwright, author of Of Human Bondage The Razor's Edge A. A. Milne , (1882-1956), poet, playwright, author of Winnie-the-Pooh George Orwell , (1903-1950) author of Animal Farm 1984 Charles Palliser
Phil Rickwood , the politics of sin
Nevil Shute (1899-1960), author of On the Beach J. R. R. Tolkien , (1892-1973), author of The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings Anthony Trollope , (1815-1882)
Evelyn Waugh , (1903-1966), author of Brideshead Revisited H. G. Wells , (1866-1946), essayist , science fiction author of The Time Machine The War of the Worlds P. G. Wodehouse , (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
Virginia Woolf , (1882-1941), feminist , modernist , author of Mrs. Dalloway William Auld writes mainly in Esperanto
Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (1954 - ) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science-fiction novels under the second.
J. M. Barrie , author of Peter Pan among others.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , creator of the Great Detective , discoverer of the Lost World , believer in fairies .
James Kelman
Helen Clark MacInnes wrote suspense novels
Ken MacLeod , (1954 - ), science fiction
Ian Rankin
Sir Walter Scott , (1771 -1832 ), innovator of the historical novel
Robert Louis Stevenson , (1850 -1894 ), author of Treasure Island Mary Stewart , (1916 - )
Nigel Tranter , (1909 -2000 ), Scottish historical novels.
Irvine Welsh , (1961 - )
See also: List of novelists by country: United States
Kathy Acker , (1943-1997)
Robert H. Adleman (1919-1995)
Louisa May Alcott , (1832-1888), author of Little Women Nicholson Baker (born 1957), author of The Mezzanine and Vox Ray Bradbury , (born 1920), author of Fahrenheit 451 The Illustrated Man Charles Bukowski , (1920-1994), poet & novelist, author of Post Office , Factotum
William S. Burroughs , (1914-1997), author of Naked Lunch Truman Capote , (1924-1984), author of Breakfast at Tiffany's In Cold Blood Raymond Chandler , (1888-1959), author of The Big Sleep Tom Clancy , (born 1947), author of The Hunt for Red October Stephen Crane , (1871-1900), author of The Red Badge of Courage John Fante , (1909-1983), author of Ask the Dust
William Faulkner , (1897-1962), Nobel Prize winning author of The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying Light in August The Unvanquished and Absalom, Absalom! F. Scott Fitzgerald , (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby Tender Is the Night Davis Grubb (1919-1980) The Night of the Hunter Dashiell Hammett , (1894-1961), author of The Maltese Falcon The Thin Man Nathaniel Hawthorne , (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables Mark Helprin , author of Winter's Tale Ernest Hemingway , (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls A Farewell to Arms The Sun Also Rises Frank Herbert , (1920-1986), author of Dune John Irving , (born 1942), author of The World According to Garp The Cider House Rules Jack Kerouac , author of On the Road Stephen King , prolific horror author.
Dean Koontz , true definition of 'prolific author', with over 80 thriller novels to his name.
Jack London , (1876-1916), author of The Call of the Wild Ross Lockridge, Jr. , (1914-1948), author of Raintree County Fitz Hugh Ludlow , (1836-1870), author of The Hasheesh Eater David Markson , (born 1927), author of This is Not a Novel and Wittgenstein's Mistress
Herman Melville , (1819-1891), author of Billy Budd Moby-Dick Henry Miller (1891-1980), author of Tropic of Cancer Toni Morrison , (born 1931), Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved E. Annie Proulx , The Shipping News Thomas Pynchon , (born 1937), author of Gravity's Rainbow Philip Roth , (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint The Human Stain J. D. Salinger , author of The Catcher in the Rye William Saroyan
Erich Segal , (born 1937), author of Love Story John Steinbeck , (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men Neal Stephenson , (1959-), Cryptonomicon William Styron author of Sophie's Choice Sergio Troncoso , (born 1961), author of The Nature of Truth and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories
Mark Twain , (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Kurt Vonnegut , (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse-Five Tom Wolfe , (born 1931), journalist and author of The Bonfire of the Vanities Thomas Wolfe , (1900-1938), author of Look Homeward, Angel
