Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:
See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors
See: List of Australian novelists
See also: German literature
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– )
Pep Coll
- Allende, Isabel
- Calderón, Teresa
- Coloane, Francisco
- Donoso, José
- Guelfenbein, Carla
- Lillo, Baldomero
- Gumucio, Manuela
- Maturana, Andrea
- Rojas, Manuel
- Sepúlveda, Luis
- Serrano, Marcela
- Valdivieso, Mercedes
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
- 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
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 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)
See also: List of Danish authors
- Jüri Ehlvest, (1967– )
- Kaur Kender, (1971– )
- Heiti Kender, (1973– )
- Albert Kivikas, (1898–1978)
- Kadri Kõusaar, (1980– )
- Jaan Kross, (1920– )
- Juhan Liiv (1864–1913)
- Tõnu Õnnepalu, (aka Emil Tode, 1962– )
- Lilli Promet, (1922–2007)
- Karl Ristikivi, (1912–1977)
- Anton Hansen Tammsaare, (1878–1940)
- Heiki Vilep, (1960– )
- 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: French literature, List of French novelists
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
See also: Indian literature
- Chetan Bhagat, (born 1974), English
- 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
- 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
- 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
See: Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists
- 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
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
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
see also Literature of Morocco
See also: New Zealand literature
