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
- Jessica Anderson
- Thea Astley
- Murray Bail
- Carmel Bird
- John Birmingham
- Rolf Boldrewood
- Lily Brett, author of Just Like That (1994)
- Geraldine Brooks
- Peter Carey
- Marcus Clarke
- James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), author of 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
- Xavier Herbert
- Dorothy Hewett
- George Johnston
- Elizabeth Jolley
- Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based,
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
- 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
- Mercè 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
(see also: Croatian literature)
(see also: Literature of the Czech
Republic)
- Karel Čapek, (1890-1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist,
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)
See also List of novelists
by country: England
- J. R. Ackerley
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- Jane Austen, (1775-1817), author of Sense and Sensibility and 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 and Through the Looking-Glass
- Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author of A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities and Great
Expectations
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), author of Silas Marner and 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 and 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 and The Heart of the Matter
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd
- Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
- 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 (1992)
- Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
- Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim and 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 and The Razor's Edge
- A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), poet, playwright, author of Winnie the Pooh
- George Orwell, (1903-1950) author of Animal Farm and 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 and 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 and 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
- 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 has been filmed on an average of once every 18 months since 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
- 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, or 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 was Bowdlerised into children's
literature.
- Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), also a playwright, imprisoned for homosexual acts
- 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)
- Witold Gombrowicz, (1904-1969)
- Stanislaw Lem, (1921- )
- Eliza Orzeszkowa,
(1841-1910)
- Boleslaw Prus, (1847-1912)
- Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867-1925) Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of national epic
The Peasants
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, (1846-1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, Quo Vadis
- Stefan Zeromski, (1864-1925)
(see also: Romanian literature)
- Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), O scrisoare pierdută (1884),
- Mircea
Cărtărescu (born 1956), Nostalgia (1993), Orbitor II (2002),
- Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Précis de décomposition (1949),
- Ion Creangă (1839-1889),
- Mircea Eliade (1907-1986),
- Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889),
- Panait Istrati (1884-1935),
- Eugen Ionescu (1909-1994), Elegii pentru fiinţe mici (1931), Nu (1934), Englezeşte fără profesor
(1945), Rinocerii
(1959),
- 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, a tale
of a "superfluous" man
- 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, in 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, also historian
- 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".
- 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 Swedish
language writers
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 and 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 and 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 and Tender Is the Night
- Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961), author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter and 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, and The Sun Also Rises
- Frank Herbert, (1920-1986), author of Dune
- John Irving, (born 1942), author of The World According to Garp and 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
- David Markson, (born 1927), author of This is Not a Novel and
Wittgenstein's Mistress
- Herman Melville, (1819-1891), author of Billy Budd and 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 and The Human Stain
- J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
- William Saroyan
- John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice
and Men
- William Styron author of Sophie's Choice
- Michael Szymczyk author of Toilet: The Novel
- Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
- Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five
- Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), journalist and author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Thomas Wolfe, (1900-1938), author of Look Homeward,
Angel
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