List of novelists by nationality
List of novelists
- Australia
- Jessica Anderson
- Thea Astley
- Murray Bail
- Carmel Bird
- Rolf Boldrewood
- Peter Carey
- Marcus Clarke
- James Clavell
- Richard Flanagan
- David Foster
- Miles Franklin
- Joseph Furphy
- Helen Garner
- Peter Goldsworthy
- Kerry Greenwood
- Kate Grenville
- Xavier Herbert
- Dorothy Hewett
- George Johnston
- Elizabeth Jolley
- Thomas Keneally, wrote Schindler's Ark (1982), the basis of the film Schindler's List, Confederates (1979)
- Frank Moorhouse
- Gerald Murnane
- Henry Handel Richardson
- Christina Stead, wrote The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
- Patrick White, Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
- Tim Winton
- Amy Witting
- Austria (see also German literature)
- Brazil
- Canada
- Margaret Atwood
- Pierre Berton
- Robertson Davies, wrote Fifth Business (1970), publisher, professor, journalist
- C.J. Everon = See also: France
- Timothy Findley = See also: France
- Mavis Gallant = See also: France
- Arthur Hailey, indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel (1965), Airport (1968)
- Nancy Huston= See also: France
- Robert Nicholas Kucey
- Malcolm Lowry, author of Under the Volcano (1947)
- Alistair MacLeod
- Rohinton Mistry
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Alice Munro
- Michael Ondaatje, wrote The English Patient (1993)
- Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
- David Adams Richards
- Gabrielle Roy
- Carol Shields
- Jane Urquhart
- Colombia
- Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), journalist, publisher, enthusiastic third-world leftist, avatar of magical realism.
- Czech Republic
- Karel Capek, inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Cosmopolitan
- Franz Kafka (lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia. German language writer; see also German literature.), creator of images of despair and alienation that haunted the 20th century
- Milan Kundera (born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer.)
- Salman Rushdie (born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer.), placed under fatwah (death sentence) by Muslim clerics
- Denmark
- Isak Dinesen, real name Karen Blixen, wrote Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- Egypt
- England
- Kingsley Amis Novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
- Martin Amis, son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money and The Information
- Jeffrey Archer Peer, perjurer and author of best-selling but poorly-reviewed novels.
- Jane Austen
- J.G. Ballard, disturbing novelist, wrote Crash, Empire of the Sun
- Arnold Bennett
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- John Bunyan
- Anthony Burgess, composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
- Samuel Butler
- Lewis Carroll, pen name of C. L. Dodgson, mathematician, photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and [Through the Looking Glass]] (1871).
- Joseph Conrad, Polish-born mariner, author of The Heart of Darkness.
- Daniel Defoe, journalist, wrote Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders, wrote more than 500 books, accounted the most prolific author in English.
- Charles Dickens, master of the novel
- Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Great Detective
- Daphne Du Maurier
- Lawrence Durrell
- George Eliot
- Ian McEwan
- Henry Fielding
- Ford Madox Ford, wrote The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers
- E. M. Forster
- Neil Gaiman
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Stella Gibbons
- William G. Golding, author of The Lord of the Flies
- Robert Graves
- Graham Greene
- Thomas Hardy
- William Horwood
- Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World
- Christopher Isherwood
- Rudyard Kipling, journalist, imperial propagandist, masterful short-story writer, poet, author of Kim (1904)
- Arthur Koestler
- D. H. Lawrence
- C. S. Lewis
- William Somerset Maugham
- George Orwell, pen name of Eric A. Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949)
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Terry Pratchett, author of novels about magic, wizards, trolls etc. that are actually about the real world.
- J.B. Priestley
- Barbara Pym
- Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist, author of Pamela (1740)
- Sax Rohmer, creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.
- Dorothy Sayers
- Will Self
- Laurence Sterne, played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries beofre Postmodernism was invented.
- Jonathan Swift, author of a savage, misanthropic satire that was Bowdlerised into a children's book
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- J.R.R. Tolkien, described by one critic as a `radical Luddite', he wrote the most popular work of fiction of the 20th century.
- Anthony Trollope
- Evelyn Waugh
- H. G. Wells: author and essayist; author of at least two of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.
- T.H. White author of The Sword in the Stone, and The Once and Future King
- Angus Wilson
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Virginia Woolf
- France
- Honore de Balzac
- Albert Camus
- Louis Ferdinand Céline
- Gilbert Cesbron
- Emilie du Chatelet
- Colette
- Denis Diderot
- Alexander Dumas
- C.J. Everon = See also: Canada
- Timothy Findley = See also: Canada
- Mavis Gallant = See also: Canada
- Nancy Huston = See also: Canada
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, civil servant, war hero (Legion of Honor), founder of the Academie Goncourt, apostle of perversity and decadence, author of A rebours, or Against the Grain (1884) and La-Bas, or Down There (1891)
- Gustave Flaubert
- Victor Hugo
- Alfred Jarry
- Andre Malraux
- Georges Perec
- Marcel Proust
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Marquis de Sade
- Georges Sand
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Gertrude Stein = See also: United States
- Stendhal
- Jules Verne
- Voltaire
- Emile Zola
- Germany (see also German literature)
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Stefano Benni
- Italo Calvino
- Umberto Eco
- Primo Levi Resistance fighter, Chemist, novelist
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Alberto Moravia
- Luigi Pirandello
- Italo Svevo
- Giovanni Verga
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Peru
- Portugal
- Russia
- Scotland
- Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, he writes mainstream novels under the first name, science-fiction novels under the second
- Sir Walter Scott
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mary Stewart
- Irvine Welsh
- Turkey
- United States
- Kathy Acker
- Henry Adams
- Louisa May Alcott
- Nelson Algren, essayist, chronicler of the marginal, author of The Man With the Golden Arm.
- Sherwood Anderson
- Maya Angelou
- Paul Auster
- Richard Bach
- James Baldwin
- Charles Baxter
- Saul Bellow
- Ray Bradbury
- Pearl S. Buck
- William S. Burroughs
- Truman Capote
- Orson Scott Card
- Willa Cather
- Kate Chopin
- Tom Clancy
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Charles Cotton
- Douglas Coupland
- Stephen Crane
- Don Delillo
- Theodore Dreiser
- Louise Erdrich
- Ben K. Green
- John Dos Passos
- Ralph Ellison
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John Grisham
- Alex Haley
- Dashiell Hammett
- Barry Hannah
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughs
- Zora Neale Hurston
- John Irving
- Washington Irving
- Henry James
- James Jones
- Jack Kerouac, beatnik, author of On the Road (1952)
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Murray Leinster
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Stephen King
- Norman Mailer, journalist, author of The Naked and the Dead (1948)
- David Mamet
- Frank McCourt
- Carson McCullers
- John D. MacDonald
- Larry McMurtry
- Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick
- James Michener
- Henry Miller
- Toni Morrison
- Vladimir Nabokov, lepidopterist, Lolita
- Flannery O'Connor
- Thomas Pynchon, V.
- Ayn Rand, capitalist nihilist, Atlas Shrugged
- Harold Robbins
- Tom Robbins
- Mike Royko
- J. D. Salinger
- Upton Sinclair
- Danielle Steel
- Gertrude Stein = See also: France
- John Steinbeck
- Amy Tan
- Hunter S. Thompson; the phrase "gonzo journalism" was invented to describe him.
- Studs Terkel
- Harry Turtledove
- Mark Twain, the pride of America
- John Updike
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- David Foster Wallace
- E.B. White, co-author of The Elements of Style
- Edith Wharton
- Tom Wolf
- Thomas Wolfe
- Wales
- English Language
- Welsh Language
- Yugoslavia
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