Künstlerroman

Examples by language

German

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1795 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
• Ludwig Tieck's 1798 Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
• Novalis's 1802 Heinrich von Ofterdingen
• Hermann Hesse's Demian and Klingsor's Last Summer
• Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger, and Doctor Faustus
• Jakob Wassermann's 1915 Das Gänsemännchen
• Rainer Maria Rilke's 1910 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

  English">English language">English

• 1805 William Wordsworth's The Prelude
• 1847 Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
• 1848 Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• 1850 Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
• 1852 Herman Melville's '
• 1856 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
• 1875 Henry James's Roderick Hudson
• 1890 Henry James's The Tragic Muse
• 1903 Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
• 1909 Jack London Martin Eden
• 1913 D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
• 1915 W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
• 1915 Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
• 1916 James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• 1918 Wyndham Lewis's Tarr
• 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
• 1928 Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness
• 1929 Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel
• 1933 Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine
• 1936 George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• 1939 John Fante's Ask the Dust
• 1943 Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• 1945 Richard Wright's Black Boy
• 1947 W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind
• 1952 Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt
• 1952 Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley
• 1955 William Gaddis's The Recognitions
• 1961 Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy
• 1963 Leonard Cohen's The Favourite Game
• 1970 Patrick White's The Vivisector
• 1971 Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women
• 1972 Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev
• 1973 Milan Kundera's Life Is Elsewhere
• 1974 Margaret Laurence's The Diviners
• 1978 John Irving's The World According to Garp
• 1981 Alasdair Gray's '
• 1982 Charles Bukowski's Ham on Rye
• 1985 Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• 1988 Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
• 1999 Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring
• 2003 Jennifer Donnelly's A Northern Light
• 2006 Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
• 2006 Stew's Passing Strange
• 2010 Eileen Myles's Inferno
• 2010 Wena Poon's Alex y Robert
• 2011 Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station

  French

• 1831, 1837 Honore de Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece
• 1904–1905 Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
• 1913– 1927 Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time

  Italian

• Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, Le Vergini Delle Rocce and Il Fuoco
• 1975 Gavino Ledda's My Father, My Master
• 2012–2015 Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels

  Icelandic

• Halldór Laxness's World Light
• Halldór Laxness's The Fish Can Sing

  Russian

• Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift

  Croatian

• 1932 Miroslav Krleža's The Return of Filip Latinovicz

  Malayalam">Malayalam language">Malayalam

• 1993 Perumbadavam Sreedharan's Oru Sankeerthanam Pole

  Norwegian">Norwegian language">Norwegian

• 2009–2011 Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle

  Portuguese">Portuguese language">Portuguese

• 1883 Maria Benedita Bormann's Lésbia
• 1976 Ferreira Gullar's Poema Sujo

  Turkish">Turkish language">Turkish

• 1896–1897 Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's Blue and Black

  Bengali">Bengali language">Bengali