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novels, listed by country:
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playwrights, List of short story
authors
See also : Albanian literature
See: List of Australian
novelists
See also: German literature
- Sarah
Bouyain (1968– )
- Monique Ilboudo
- Honorine Mare (1972– )
- Suzy Henrique Nikiéma
- Adiza Sanoussi
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,
(1920–2007)
- Juhan Liiv
(1864–1913)
- Tõnu
Õnnepalu, (aka Emil Tode, 1962– )
- Kersti
Merilaas, (1913–1986)
- 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
- Rammohan Roy, Bengali, English,
Sanskrit
- Kaji Nazrul Islam, Bengali, Persian,
Arabic
- Jibanananda
Das, Bengali
- Jay Purandare, English
- 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
- Vijayakrishnan, Malayalam
- 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
- Rajkamal Choudhary, 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
- Kuvempu, Kannada
language
- T P KAilasam, Kannada Language
- Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, Kannada
Language
- D.Selvaraj, Tamil 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, Pereira Declares
(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
- Nisioisin, (1981–) Kubikiri Cycle
(Mephisto Prize, 2002), Another Note: The Los Angeles BB
Murder Cases
Kurdland
- Sabine Cassar-Alpert (1959– ), author of Angelina's
Ghost
- Carmel C. Cauchi
- Trevor Zahra
- Carl de Souza (1949– )
- Ananda Devi
- Jean Fanchette
- Abhimanyu Unuth
see also Literature of Morocco
See also: New Zealand
literature
See: List of Nigerian writers
See also: Norwegian literature
See also: Pakistani literature
See also: Literature of the Philippines
See also: Polish literature
- Luis López Nieves (born 1950),
Seva (1984), Escribir para Rafa (1987), La
verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León (2000), El corazón
de Voltaire (2005)
See also: Romanian
literature
See also: Russian literature
- Andrey Bely, (1880–1934)
- Andrey Bitov, (born 1937)
- Mikhail
Bulgakov, (1891–1940), author of The Master and
Margarita
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky, (1828–1889), author
of What Is To Be Done?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821–1881), author of
The Brothers Karamazov,
Crime and Punishment
- Gaito
Gazdanov, (1903-1971)
- Nikolai
Gogol, (1809–1852), author of Dead Souls
- Ivan
Goncharov, (1812–1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous"
man
- Maxim Gorky,
(1868–1936)
- Anna Kashina,
author of The Princess of Dhagabad
- Mikhail
Lermontov, (1814–1841)
- Leonid
Leonov, 1899-1994
- Nikolai
Leskov, (1831–1895)
- Vladimir
Makanin, (born 1937)
- 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)
- Ilia Shtemler, (born 1933)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
(1918–2008), One Day in the Life
of Ivan Denisovich, also historian
- Aleksey K. Tolstoy, (1817–1875)
- Aleksey N. Tolstoy, (1883–1945)
- Leo Tolstoy,
(1828–1910), author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Ivan
Turgenev (1818–1883)
See: List of Senegalese
writers
See also: Serbian literature
See: List of South African
writers
See: List of Korean novelists
See:List of Spanish language
authors. See: Spanish
Literature
See also: List of Swedish language
writers
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
- Ahmet Mithat
- Ahmet Rasim
- Ahmet
Ümit
- Ayşe
Kulin
- Aziz Nesin
- Bilge Karasu, author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and
"Death in Troy"
- Buket
Uzuner
- Cem Akaş
- Cemil Meriç
- Elif
Şafak
- Ertugrul Oğuz Fırat, author of "Sevicira"
- Fakir Baykurt
- Haldun
Taner
- Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
- Hasan
Ali Toptaş
- Kemal Tahir,
author of "Yorgun Savaşçı", "Devlet Ana", "Karılar Koğuşu"
- Mehmed Rauf
- Metin
Kaçan
- M. Murat İldan
- Oguz
Atay
- Oktay Rifat
- Orhan Kemal,
author of "Bekçi Murtaza",
- Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of
"Black Book" and "The White Castle"
- Peyami Safa
- Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
- Reşat Enis
- Reşat Nuri Güntekin
- Rıfat
Ilgaz
- Sabahattin
Ali
- Sabri
Gürses
- Sadık Yalsızuçanlar
- Selim İleri
- Tarık Buğra
- Yahya Kemal
- Yaşar
Kemal, author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
- Yaşar Nabi Nayır
- Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
- Yusuf Atilgan
- See: List of English
novelists
- See: List of Scottish
novelists
- See also: List of Welsh writers
- See also: List of
Northern Irish writers and List of Irish
novelists
See: List of novelists
from the United States
See: Culture of Uruguay
- Sholom Asch, (1880–1957)
- David
Bergelson, (1884–1952)
- Der Nister,
(1884–1950)
- Shira
Gorshman, (1906 –2001)
- Chaim Grade,
(1910–1982)
- Esther
Kreitman, (1891–1954)
- Mendele Moykher
Sforim, (1836–1917), pseudonym for Sholem Yankev
Abramovitch
- Joseph
Opatoshu, (1886–1954)
- Yitzok Lebesh Peretz, (1852–1915)
- Sholem
Aleichem, (1859–1916) (real name: Solomon
Rabinovitz), Fiddler on the Roof was based
on his stories
- Isaac Bashevis Singer,
(1904–1991)
- Israel Joshua Singer,
(1893–1944)
- Anzia
Yezierska (c. 1880–1970)
Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)
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