List of novelists by nationality
Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:
See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors
Albania
- Dritero Agolli
- Ismail Kadare
- Fatos Kongoli
- Faik Konitza
- Migjeni
- Haki Stermilli
- Jakov Xoxa
Algeria
- Marguerite Taos Amrouche
- Rachid Boudjedra
- Albert Camus
- Mohammed Dib
- Tahar Djaout
- Assia Djebar
- Frantz Fanon, originally from Martinique
- Mouloud Feraoun
- Mouloud Mammeri
- Rachid Mimouni
- Ahlam Mostaghanemi
- Leïla Sebbar
- Kateb Yacine
Roman Empire|Ancient Latin authors
- Apuleius
- Petronius
Angola
- José Eduardo Agualusa
- Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos
- Sousa Jamba
- Ondjaki
- Oscar Ribas
- José Luandino Vieira
Argentina
- Marcos Aguinis
- César Aira
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Abelardo Castillo
- Julio Cortázar
- Macedonio Fernandez
- Ricardo Güiraldes
- Sylvia Iparraguirre
- Leopoldo Marechal
- Manuel Puig
- Andrés Rivera
- Juan José Saer
- Ernesto Sábato
- Luisa Valenzuela
- Jorge Luis Borges
Armenia
- Michael Arlen
- Yervant Odian
- Alexander Shirvanzade
- Zabel Yesayan
Assyrian
- Khalil Gibran
- Thea Halo
- Ivan Kakovitch
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Obelit Yadgar
Australia
Austria
- Vicki Baum
- Hugo Bettauer
- Thomas Bernhard
- Hermann Broch
- Peter Handke
- Josef Haslinger
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Robert Musil
- Joseph Roth
- Robert Schneider
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Bertha von Suttner
- Stefan Zweig
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
- Humayun Ahmed
- Muhammad Yunus
- Taslima Nasrin
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Humayun Azad
Belarus
- Vasil Bykaŭ
- Uładzimir Karatkievič
- Jakub Kołas
- Janka Kupała
- Ivan Šamiakin
Belgium
- Nicolas Ancion
- Cornelis de Bie
- Louis Paul Boon
- Hendrik Conscience
- Ernest Claes
- Hugo Claus
- Christine D'Haen
- Johan Daisne
- Charles De Coster
- Willem Elsschot
- Jef Geeraerts
- Guido Gezelle
- Marnix Gijsen
- Hubert Lampo
- Rosalie Loveling
- Virginie Loveling
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Alice Nahon
- Amélie Nothomb
- Anne Provoost
- Maria Rosseels
- Georges Simenon
- Stijn Streuvels
- Herman Teirlinck
- Felix Timmermans
- André Henri Constant van Hasselt
- Karel Van Mander
- Emile Verhaeren
- Peter Verhelst
- Gerard Walschap
- Jan Frans Willems
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Lode Zielens
Benin
- Berte-Evelyne Agbo
- Florent Couao-Zotti
- Richard Dogbeh
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ivo Andrić
Botswana
- Caitlin Davies, born in Britain
- Unity Dow
- Bessie Head, born in South Africa
Brazil
- José Alencar
- Manuel Antônio de Almeida
- Jorge Amado
- Mário de Andrade
- Oswald de Andrade
- Machado de Assis
- Lima Barreto
- Chico Buarque
- Lúcio Cardoso
- Paulo Coelho
- Rubem Fonseca
- Clarice Lispector
- Joaquim Manoel de Macedo
- Raduan Nassar
- Raul Pompéia
- Fernando Sabino
- Moacyr Scliar
- Graciliano Ramos
- José Lins do Rego
- João Ubaldo Ribeiro
- João Guimarães Rosa
- Murilo Rubião
- Érico Veríssimo
- Lygia Fagundes Telles
Bulgaria
- Emil Andreev
- Zdravka Evtimova
- Agop Melkonyan
- Albena Stambolova
Burkina Faso
- Nazi Boni
- Sarah Bouyain
- Norbert Zongo
Cameroon
- Mongo Beti, pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala
- Calixthe Beyala
- Ferdinand Oyono
- Francis Bebey
Canada
- Margaret Atwood
- Mary Balogh
- Pierre Berton
- Marie-Claire Blais
- Morley Callaghan
- Deborah Joy Corey
- Robertson Davies
- Ranj Dhaliwal
- Réjean Ducharme
- Louis Emond
- Musharraf Ali Farooqi
- Timothy Findley
- Gayleen Froese
- Donald Jack
- Hugh MacLennan
- Margaret Laurence
- Stephen Leacock
- Yann Martel
- Rohinton Mistry
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Susanna Moodie
- Christopher G. Moore
- Farley Mowat
- Alice Munro
- Michael Ondaatje
- Mordecai Richler
- Gabrielle Roy
- Margaret Marshall Saunders
- Carol Shields
- Catharine Parr Traill
- Roland Michel Tremblay
- Jane Urquhart
Cape Verde
- Germano Almeida
- Manuel Lopes
Catalonia
- Raimon Llull
- Ramon Muntaner
- Joanot Martorell
- Narcís Oller
- Mercè Rodoreda
Chad
- Marie-Christine Koundja
Chile
- Isabel Allende
- Roberto Bolaño
- Francisco Coloane
- José Donoso
- Jorge Edwards
- Baldomero Lillo
- Manuel Rojas
- Luis Sepúlveda
- Marcela Serrano
- Mercedes Valdivieso
China
- Cao Xueqin
- Dai Sijie
- Gao Xingjian
- Han Shaogong
- Lao She
- Li Yu
- Lu Xun
- Mao Dun
- Mo Yan
- Qian Zhongshu
- Wang Shuo
- Wei Jingsheng
- Zhang Ailing
Colombia
- Héctor Abad Faciolince
- Jaime Manrique
- Gabriel García Márquez
- José Eustasio Rivera
- Álvaro Mutis
Republic of the Congo
- Jeannette Balou Tchichelle
- Emmanuel Dongala
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Amba Bongo
- Maguy Kabamba
- Sony Labou Tansi
- V. Y. Mudimbe
- Yamusangie, Frederick Kambemba
Cosmopolitanism|Cosmopolitan
- Romain Gary, Russian-born French writer
- Franz Kafka lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature
- Arthur Koestler
- Milan Kundera born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer.
- Salman Rushdie born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, author of The Satanic Verses
Costa Rica
- Fabián Dobles Rodríguez
- Joaquín García Monge
- Yolanda Oreamuno
- Roxana Pinto
Ivory Coast
- Tanella Boni
- Micheline Coulibaly
- Richard Dogbeh. See also Benin, Senegal and Togo
- Ahmadou Kourouma
- Véronique Tadjo
- Werewere-Liking Gnepo. See also Cameroon
Croatia
- Marija Jurić Zagorka
- Miroslav Krleža
- Zlata Kolarić-Kišur
- Ivo Andrić
- Ivan Aralica
- Vesna Krmpotić
- Tomislav Ladan
- Dubravka Ugrešić
- Julijana Matanović
Cuba
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Alejo Carpentier
- Daína Chaviano
- Jose Lezama Lima
- Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Czech Republic
- Karel Čapek
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Milan Kundera
- Jaroslav Seifert
Denmark
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Karen Blixen , author of Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa
- Peter Høeg
- Jens Peter Jacobsen
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Nobel Prize for Literature
- Christian Jungersen
- Morten Korch
- Carl Erik Soya
Djibouti
- Waberi Abdourahman
Ecuador
- Jorge Enrique Adoum
- Rosalía Arteaga
- Aminta Buenaño
- Benjamín Carrión
- María Fernanda Espinosa
- Enrique Gil Gilbert
- Jorge Icaza
- Salomon Isacovici
- Edna Iturralde
- Violeta Luna
- José Martínez Queirolo
- Nela Martínez
- Juan Montalvo
- Gonzalo Zaldumbide
Egypt
- Alifa Rifaat
- Ahdaf Soueif
- Bahaa Taher
- Edward al-Kharrat
- Ibrahim Aslan
- Gamal Al-Ghitani
- Khairy Shalaby
- Muhammad Husayn Haykal
- Nabil Farouk
- Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize for Literature, famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Saleh Morsi
- Sonallah Ibrahim
- Tawfiq al-Hakim
- Yahya Haqqi
- Youssef Ziedan
- Yusuf Idris
Equatorial Guinea
- María Nsué Angüe
- Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo
- Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Estonia
- Sass Henno
- Kaur Kender
- Albert Kivikas
- Andrus Kivirähk
- Jaan Kross
- Leo Kunnas
- Juhan Liiv
- Tõnu Õnnepalu
- Kersti Merilaas
- Lilli Promet
- Karl Ristikivi
- Raivo Seppo
- Juhan Smuul
- Anton Hansen Tammsaare
- Enn Vetemaa
- Heiki Vilep
Ethiopia
- Haddis Alemayehu
- Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus
- Moges Kebede
- Dinaw Mengestu
- Maaza Mengiste
- Nega Mezlekia
- Hama Tuma
- Birhanu Zerihun
Faroe Islands
Finland
- Juhani Aho
- Tove Jansson, she wrote in Swedish
- Aino Kallas, female
- Aleksis Kivi
- Väinö Linna
- Johannes Linnankoski
- Arto Paasilinna
- Kalle Päätalo
- Frans Emil Sillanpää, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1939
- Mika Waltari
France
Gabon
- Jean-Baptiste Abessolo
- Bessora
- Rene Maran, born near Martinique
- Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri
Gambia
- Ebou Dibba
- Lenrie Peters
- Sally Singhateh
Germany
- Heinrich Böll
- Alfred Döblin, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Hans Fallada
- Theodor Fontane
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, polymath.
- Günter Grass, Nobel Prize for Literature
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize for Literature
- Uwe Johnson
- Ernst Jünger
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Siegfried Lenz
- Andreas Mand
- Heinrich Mann
- Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize for Literature
- Sten Nadolny, author of The Discovery of Slowness
- Erich Maria Remarque, author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front
- Bernhard Schlink
- W. G. Sebald
- Anna Seghers
- Patrick Süskind, author of Perfume
- Martin Walser
- Peter Weiss
- Christa Wolf
- Arnold Zweig
Ghana
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Ayi Kwei Armah
- Bediako Asare, also connected with Tanzania
- Ayesha Harruna Attah
- Nana Oforiatta Ayim
- Kofi Awoonor
- Yaba Badoe
- Elizabeth-Irene Baitie
- Kofi Batsa
- J. Benibengor Blay
- William Boyd
- Akosua Busia
- J. E. Casely-Hayford
- Jojo Cobbinah
- Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
- Amma Darko
- Lawrence Darmani
- Kwame Dawes
- Amu Djoleto
- Cameron Duodu
- Asare Konadu
- B. Kojo Laing
- Lesley Lokko
- Nii Ayikwei Parkes
- Kobina Sekyi
- Taiye Selasi
- Francis Selormey
- Efua Theodora Sutherland
- Nana Achampong
Greece
- George Leonardos
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Guatemala
- Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guinea
- Sirah Balde de Labe
- Camara Laye
- Tierno Monénembo
- Williams Sassine
Haïti
- Frankétienne
- Clark Parent
- Jacques Roumain
Honduras
- Roberto Castillo
- Julio Escoto
- Javier Abril Espinoza
- Lucila Gamero
Hong Kong
- Louis Cha
- Ni Kuang
Hungary
- Zoltán Ambrus
- Mihály Babits
- Zsófia Bán
- Ágota Bozai
- György Dalos
- Anna Dániel
- József Eötvös
- Péter Esterházy
- Klára Fehér
- István Fekete, author of Vuk
- Géza Gárdonyi
- Ágnes Gergely
- Ferenc Herczeg
- Éva Janikovszky, also children's writer
- Mór Jókai, foremost 19th-century novelist
- Margit Kaffka
- Frigyes Karinthy, author of science-fiction novels
- József Kármán
- Zsigmond Kemény
- Rivka Keren, writing also in Hebrew
- Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize for Literature
- János Kodolányi
- György Konrád
- Károly Kós
- Dezső Kosztolányi
- László Krasznahorkai
- Gyula Krúdy
- Ervin Lázár, author of children's novels
- Laura Leiner, author of young-adult series
- Iván Mándy, author of children's novels
- Sándor Márai
- Ferenc Molnár, author of The Paul Street Boys
- Ferenc Móra
- Zsigmond Móricz, foremost novelist of the earlier 20th century
- Kálmán Mikszáth
- Terézia Mora, writing in German
- Péter Nádas
- Borbála Nádasdy
- László Németh
- Emma Orczy, writing in English
- Géza Ottlik
- Jenő Rejtő
- Henriett Seth F., science-fiction author
- Magda Szabó, author of The Door
- Sándor Szathmári, author of Kazohinia
- Noémi Szécsi
- Júlia Székely
- Mária Szepes
- Antal Szerb, author of Journey by Moonlight
- Edina Szvoren
- Áron Tamási
- Kata Tisza
- Cécile Tormay
- Albert Wass
- Miklós Bánffy
Iceland
- Snorri Sturluson, author of the Younger Edda
- Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize for Literature
- Sjón, The Nordic Council's Literature Prize
Indian subcontinent
- Aravind Adiga, English
- Ahmed Ali, English, Urdu
- Mulk Raj Anand, English
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Urdu, English, Hindi
- Manik Bandopadhyay, Bengali
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Bengali
- Tarashankar Banerjee, Bengali
- D. R. Bendre, Kannada
- Ramavriksha Benipuri, Hindi
- Ruskin Bond, English
- Nitya Prakash, English, Hindi
- Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali, English
- Nirendranath Chakravarty, Bengali
- Vikram Chandra, English
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, English
- Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali
- Amit Chaudhuri, English
- Rajkamal Chaudhary, Hindi
- Jibanananda Das, Bengali
- Manoj Das, Oriya
- David Davidar
- Shobhaa De, English
- Anita Desai, English
- Kiran Desai, English
- P. L. Deshpande Marathi
- Eunice De Souza, English
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali, English, French
- Lalon Fakir, Bengali
- Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali
- Amitav Ghosh, English
- Subodh Ghosh, Bengali
- Mir Mosharraf Hossain Bengali
- Raj Kamal Jha, English
- Amita Kanekar, English
- Umar Alisha Kavisekhara, Telugu
- Datta Raghunath Kavthekar, Marathi
- Prakash Kona
- Kuvempu, Kannada
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Pankaj Mishra
- Piyush Jha, English
- Rohinton Mistry, English
- Narendranath Mitra, Bengali
- Gopinath Mohanty, Oriya
- Jagadish Mohanty, Odia
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali
- Kiran Nagarkar Marathi, English
- R. K. Narayan, English
- Bhalchandra Nemade, Marathi
- Dibyendu Palit, Bengali, English
- Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi
- Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi
- Munshi Premchand, Hindi
- Tushar Raheja, English
- Indra Bahadur Rai Nepali
- Rajashree, English
- Raja Rao, English
- Satyajit Ray, Bengali
- Arundhati Roy, English
- Rammohan Roy, Bengali, English, Sanskrit
- Salman Rushdie, English
- Sarojini Sahoo Odia
- Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit
- Vilas Sarang Marathi, English
- D. Selvaraj, Tamil
- Samar Sen, Bengali, English
- Fakir Mohan Senapati, Oriya
- Durjoy Datta, English
- Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy
- Rabindranath Tagore Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel laureate
- Shashi Tharoor, English
- Chetan Bhagat, English
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Bengali
- Vijayakrishnan, Malayalam
- Kalki Krishnamurthy, Tamil
- Sujatha Rangarajan, Tamil language
- Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Assamese
- Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Assamese, English
- Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Assamese
- Hiren Gohain, Assamese
- Nabakanta Barua, Assamese
- Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Assamese
- Kulpreet Yadav, English
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Malayalam
- Sudha Murthy, Kannada, Marathi, English
Indonesia
- Andrea Hirata, Tetralogy of "Laskar Pelangi"
- Dewi Lestari
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of the banned novel This Earth of Mankind
Iraq
- Ahmed Saadawi, the author of the award winning Iraqi novel Frankenstein in Baghdad
- Diaa Jubaili
- Fouad al-Tikerly best known for his novel al-Rajea al-Baeed, translated into English as The Long Way Back
- Haifa Zangana born in Baghdad 1950.
- Hazim Kamaledin
- Ibtisam Abdallah
- Inaam Kachachi
- Iqbal al-Qazwini
- Samīra al-Māni'
- Samuel Shimon
- Selim Matar
- Sinan Antoon
Iran
- Ahmad Mahmoud
- Azar Nafisi
- Bozorg Alavi
- Houshang Golshiri
- Jamal Mirsadeghi
- Mahmud Doulatabadi
- Reza Baraheni
- Sadegh Hedayat
- Sadiq Chubak
- Shahrnush Parsipur
- Simin Daneshvar
- Zoya Pirzad
- Arash Hejazi
- Abbas Maroufi
- Shahryar Mandanipour
Ireland
- Samuel Beckett
- James Joyce
- Flann O'Brien
- Oscar Wilde
Israel
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nobel Prize winner; The Bridal Canopy, Yesteryear
- Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939
- Naomi Frankel, Shaul ve-Yohannah trilogy
- 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
- Michal Govrin, The Name, Snapshots
- Chaim Walder, Kids Speak
- Avraham B. Yehoshua, A Late Divorce, Mr. Mani
Italy
- Giulio Angioni
- Riccardo Bacchelli
- Alessandro Baricco
- Giorgio Bassani
- Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra is most popular work in English
- Alberto Bevilacqua
- Vitaliano Brancati
- Gesualdo Bufalino
- Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari
- Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Luigi Capuana
- Andrea Camilleri
- Carlo Cassola
- Carlo Collodi
- Carmen Covito
- Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Massimo D'Azeglio
- Edmondo De Amicis
- Grazia Deledda
- Umberto Eco
- Elena Ferrante
- Beppe Fenoglio
- Antonio Fogazzaro
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Primo Levi, 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
- Emilio Salgari
- Alberto Savinio
- Leonardo Sciascia
- Ignazio Silone
- Mario Soldati
- Italo Svevo
- Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Declares
- Susanna Tamaro
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
- Giovanni Verga
- Elio Vittorini
Jamaica
- Opal Palmer Adisa
- Lindsay Barrett
- Edward Baugh
- James Berry
- Eliot Bliss
- Erna Brodber
- Colin Channer
- Kwame Dawes
- Jean D'Costa
- Nicole Dennis-Benn
- John Edgar Colwell Hearne
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Herbert de Lisser
- Roger Mais
- Claude McKay
- Pamela Mordecai
- Geoffrey Philp
- Velma Pollard
- Patricia Powell
- Victor Stafford Reid
- Joan Riley
- Leone Ross
- Andrew Salkey
- Olive Senior
- Makeda Silvera
- Elean Thomas
- Sylvia Wynter
Japan
- Kōbō Abe
- Hiroyuki Agawa
- Sawako Ariyoshi
- Osamu Dazai
- Fumiko Enchi
- Shusaku Endo
- Ichiyō Higuchi
- Masuji Ibuse
- Kyōka Izumi
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Natsuo Kirino
- Yukio Mishima
- Kenji Miyazawa
- Minae Mizumurarn 1964)
- Haruki Murakami
- Ryū Murakami
- Nisioisin
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Yōko Ogawa
- Fuyumi Ono
- Edogawa Rampo
- Hirotsu Ryurō
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Junzo Shono
- Ayako Sono
- Natsume Sōseki
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Shōtarō Yasuoka
- Banana Yoshimoto
- Akira Yoshimura
- Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
Kenya
- Margaret Ogola
- Grace Ogot
- M. G. Vassanji
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, The River Between, Caitaani muthara-Ini, Matigari
- Meja Mwangi
- Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen
Korea
Kosovo
- Sinan Hasani
- Teki Dervishi
- Rifat Kukaj
Kurdistan
- Bachtyar Ali
- Jalal Barzanji
- Yaşar Kemal
- Ata Nahai
- Farhad Pirbal
- Mehmed Uzun
Latvia
- Andrejs Upīts
- Marģeris Zariņš
- Aleksandrs Čaks
Lebanon
- Hanan al-Shaykh
- Youssef Howayek, writer and sculptor
- Elias Khoury
- Amin Maalouf
- Widad Sakakini
Lesotho
- Thomas Mofolo
Luxembourg
Republic of Macedonia
- Slavko Janevski
Madagascar
- Michèle Rakotoson
- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Malawi
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
- Felix Mnthali
Malaysia
- K. S. Maniam
Mali
- Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- Aïda Mady Diallo
- Doumbi Fakoly
- Moussa Konaté
- Yambo Ouologuem
Mauritania
- Moussa Ould Ebnou
Mexico
- Juan Jose Arreola
- Nellie Campobello
- Laura Esquivel
- Carlos Fuentes
- Elena Garro
- Martín Luis Guzmán
- José Emilio Pacheco
- Octavio Paz
- Juan Rulfo
- Agustin Yanez
- Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- Homero Aridjis
Morocco
- Mohamed Choukri
- Driss Chraïbi
- Edmond Amran El Maleh
- Abdelkebir Khatibi
- Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
- Laila Lalami
- Ahmed Sefrioui
- Mohamed Zafzaf
- Mohamed Leftah
Mozambique
- Paulina Chiziane
- Mia Couto
- Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
- Lina Magaia
Nepal
- Samrat Upadhyay
- Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala : Sumnima, Tin Ghumti, Hitlar Ra Yahudi.
- Parijat : Shirishko Phool, Anido Pahadsangai, Paribhasit Ankhanharu.
- Jagadish Ghimire : Lilam, Sabiti.
- Khagendra Sangraula : Chetanako Pahilo Dak, Amako Chhatapati, Junakiriko Sangit.
- Shrawan Mukarung
- Subin Bhattarai
- Narayan Wagle
- Sarubhakta
- Indra Bahadur Rai
- Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Netherlands
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Harry Mulisch
- Multatuli
- Tip Marugg
- Cees Nooteboom
- Willem Frederik Hermans
- Jan Wolkers
- Gerard van het Reve
- A.F.Th. van der Heijden
New Zealand
- Barbara Anderson
- Catherine Chidgey
- Joy Cowley
- Nigel Cox
- Barry Crump
- Tessa Duder
- Alan Duff
- Kate Duignan
- Janet Frame author of An Angel at My Table
- Maurice Gee
- Patricia Grace
- Keri Hulme
- Witi Ihimaera
- Annamarie Jagose
- Fiona Kidman
- John A. Lee
- Ngaio Marsh
- Owen Marshall
- Frederick Edward Maning
- Ronald Hugh Morrieson
- Rosie Scott
- Maurice Shadbolt
- C. K. Stead
- Philip Temple
- Julius Vogel
- Cherry Wilder
Nicaragua
- Gioconda Belli
Nigeria
- Chinua Achebe
Norway
- Ingvar Ambjørnsen
- Jens Bjørneboe
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Johan Borgen
- Lars Saabye Christensen
- Olav Duun
- Johan Falkberget
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
- Erik Fosnes Hansen
- Knut Hamsun, Hunger
- Sigurd Hoel
- Roy Jacobsen
- Alexander Kielland
- Jan Kjærstad
- Karl Ove Knausgård
- Jonas Lie
- Erlend Loe
- Gabriel Scott
- Dag Solstad
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
- Tarjei Vesaas
- Herbjørg Wassmo
Pakistan
- Ahmed Ali, founder of Pakistan Academy of Letters, fiction writer, poet and scholar
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq
- Tariq Ali
- Musharraf Ali Farooqi
- Zulfikar Ghose
- Mohsin Hamid
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri
- Saadat Hasan Manto, born in India
- Uzma Aslam Khan
- Kamila Shamsie
- Bapsi Sidhwa
- Abdullah Hussain
- Intizar Hussain
- Janbaz Mirza
- Mustansar Hussain Tarar
- Bano Qudsia
- Ashfaq Ahmed
- Mumtaz Mufti
- Naseem Hijazi
- Ibn-e-Safi
- Ishtiaq Ahmed
Palestine
Panama
Paraguay
- Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga
- Augusto Roa Bastos
Peru
- Ciro Alegría
- José María Arguedas
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Philippines
- Francisco Arcellana
- Lualhati Bautista
- Carlos Bulosan
- Jose Dalisay
- Eric Gamalinda
- N. V. M. Gonzalez
- Jessica Hagedorn
- Amado Hernandez
- Stevan Javellana
- Nick Joaquin
- Edgardo Reyes
- José Rizal
- Ninotchka Rosca
- Bienvenido Santos
- Lope K. Santos
- Rogelio Sicat
- F. Sionil José
- Edilberto Tiempo
- Edith Tiempo
- Linda Ty-Casper
Poland
- Maria Dąbrowska
- Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
- Tadeusz Konwicki
- Ignacy Krasicki
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Zofia Nałkowska
- Witold Gombrowicz
- Stanisław Lem
- Eliza Orzeszkowa
- Jan Potocki
- Bolesław Prus
- Władysław Reymont, Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of The Peasants
- Bruno Schulz
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, author of Quo Vadis
- Gabriela Zapolska
- Stefan Żeromski
- Eugeniusz Żytomirski
Portugal
- Antonio Lobo Antunes
- Agustina Bessa-Luís
- Camilo Castelo Branco
- Júlio Dinis
- Almeida Garrett
- Alexandre Herculano
- José Cardoso Pires
- Eça de Queirós
- José Saramago
Puerto Rico
- Giannina Braschi, Yo-Yo Boing!, and El imperio de los suenos/Empire of Dreams.
- Luis López Nieves, Seva , Escribir para Rafa , La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León , El corazón de Voltaire
Romania
- Gabriela Adameşteanu
- Camil Baciu
- Maria Baciu
- Max Blecher )
- Nicolae Breban
- Augustin Buzura
- Mateiu Caragiale
- George Călinescu
- Mircea Cărtărescu
- Gheorghe Crăciun
- Mircea Eliade
- Mihai Eminescu
- Radu Pavel Gheo
- Virgil Gheorghiu
- Panait Istrati
- Alexandru Ivasiuc
- Norman Manea
- Gib Mihăescu
- Mircea Nedelciu
- Costache Negruzzi
- Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
- Dora Pavel
- Camil Petrescu
- Cezar Petrescu
- Dumitru Radu Popescu
- Marin Preda
- Liviu Rebreanu
- Doina Ruşti
- Mihail Sadoveanu
- Zaharia Stancu
- Bogdan Suceavă
- Duiliu Zamfirescu
Russia
- Andrey Bely
- Andrey Bitov,
- Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky, author of What Is To Be Done?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
- Gaito Gazdanov
- Nikolai Gogol, author of Dead Souls
- Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
- Maxim Gorky
- Anna Kashina, author of The Princess of Dhagabad
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Leonid Leonov, 1899–1994
- Nikolai Leskov
- Vladimir Makanin
- Vladimir Nabokov early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English.
- Boris Pasternak, refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago
- Aleksandr Pushkin
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- Ilia Shtemler
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Aleksey K. Tolstoy
- Aleksey N. Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Ivan Turgenev
Samoa
- Sia Figiel
- Albert Wendt
São Tomé and Príncipe
- Sara Pinto Coelho
Senegal
Serbia
- David Albahari
- Ivo Andrić
- Vladimir Arsenijević
- Miodrag Bulatović
- Miloš Crnjanski
- Dobrica Ćosić
- Jelena Dimitrijević
- Danilo Kiš
- Milorad Pavić
- Borislav Pekić
- Isidora Sekulić
- Meša Selimović
- Srđan Srdić
- Svetlana Velmar-Janković
Sierra Leone
- Syl Cheney-Coker
- Aminatta Forna
Slovakia
Slovenia
Somalia
- Maxamed Daahir Afrax
- Faarax M. J. Cawl
- Nuruddin Farah
- Abdi Sheik Abdi
- Waris Dirie
South Africa
- J.M. Coetzee
- Nadine Gordimer
South Korea
Spain
- Leopoldo Alas
- Núria Añó
- Camilo José Cela
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Pérez Galdós
- Juan Goytisolo
- Javier Marías
- Juan Marsé
- Eduardo Mendoza
- Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Miguel de Unamuno
Sri Lanka
- Martin Wickremasinghe
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
- Gunadasa Amarasekara
Sudan
- Tayeb Salih
- Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt
- Leila Aboulela
Sweden
- Stig Dagerman
- Marianne Fredriksson
- Gustaf Fröding
- Erik Gustaf Geijer
- Jan Guillou
- Eyvind Johnson
- Pär Lagerkvist
- Selma Lagerlöf, Nobel Prize for Literature 1909, author of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The Emperor of Portugallia
- Astrid Lindgren
- Henning Mankell
- Harry Martinson
- Vilhelm Moberg
- Peter Pohl
- Hjalmar Söderberg
- Esaias Tegnér
Switzerland
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Quarry
- Max Frisch, Stiller , Mein Name sei Gantenbein
- Christian Kracht
Republic of China|Taiwan
- Pai Hsien-yung
- Sanmao
Tanzania
- Mark Behr, also connected with South Africa
- Euphrase Kezilahabi
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
Togo
- David Ananou
- Richard Dogbeh, also connected with Benin, Senegal and Ivory Coast
- Kossi Efoui
Trinidad and Tobago
- Michael Anthony
- Earl Lovelace
- V. S. Naipaul
- Lakshmi Persaud
- Monique Roffey
- Lawrence Scott
- Samuel Selvon
Tunisia
- Hédi Bouraoui
- Albert Memmi
Turkey
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, author of Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, Huzur
- Ahmet Ümit, author of Beyoğlu Rapsodisi
- Ayşe Kulin
- Aziz Nesin
- Buket Uzuner
- Elif Şafak
- Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, author of Mai ve Siyah, Aşkı Memnu
- Hasan Ali Toptaş
- Kemal Tahir, author of Yorgun Savaşçı, Devlet Ana, Karılar Koğuşu
- Metin Kaçan
- Oğuz Atay, author of Tutunamayanlar
- Oktay Rifat
- Orhan Kemal, author of Bekçi Murtaza,
- Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of My Name Is Red and The White Castle
- Reşat Nuri Güntekin
- Rıfat Ilgaz
- Sabahattin Ali, author of Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Kürk Mantolu Madonna
- Sevim Burak
- Sabri Gürses
- Yahya Kemal
- Yaşar Kemal, author of Mehmed, My Hawk
- Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
- Yusuf Atilgan, author of Anayurt Oteli, Aylak Adam
Uganda
- Moses Isegawa
- China Keitetsi
- Goretti Kyomuhendo
Ukraine
- Emma Andijewska
- Andrey Kurkov
- Larisa Alexandrovna
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Wales
English language
- Mary Balogh
- Amy Dillwyn
- Ken Follett
- Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
- Jack Jones
- Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
- Jean Rhys
- Bernice Rubens, author of A Solitary Grief
- Howard Spring
Welsh language
- Daniel Owen
- Eigra Lewis Roberts
- Kate Roberts
Northern Ireland
- Colin Bateman, Divorcing Jack
- Ronan Bennett, The Catastrophist
- Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
- Paul Kearney, Monarchies of God
- Benedict Kiely
- Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
- Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
- Amanda McKittrick Ross
United States
Uruguay
- Eduardo Galeano, writer and social commentator.
- Mario Benedetti, Uruguay's best-known novelist
- Jorge Majfud
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- Horacio Quiroga
- Juana de Ibarbourou
- Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
- Delmira Agustini
- Isidore Lucien Ducasse, born in Montevideo though French by nationality
- José Enrique Rodó, considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher
Venezuela
- Alfredo Armas Alfonzo
- Rufino Blanco Fombona
- Mario Briceño Iragorry
- Manuel Díaz Rodríguez
- Mercedes Franco
- Alicia Freilich
- Rómulo Gallegos
- Salvador Garmendia
- Adriano González León
- Francisco Herrera Luque
- Boris Izaguirre
- Eduardo Liendo
- Francisco Massiani
- Guillermo Meneses
- Miguel Otero Silva
- Julián Padrón
- Teresa de la Parra
- Mariano Picón Salas
- Arturo Uslar Pietri
Vietnam
- Dương Thu Hương Paradise of the Blind
- Pham Thi Hoai
- Phung Le Ly Hayslip When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
- Bao Ninh
Yiddish
- Sholom Asch
- David Bergelson
- Der Nister
- Shira Gorshman
- Chaim Grade
- Esther Kreitman
- Mendele Moykher Sforim, pseudonym for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
- Joseph Opatoshu
- Yitzok Lebesh Peretz
- Sholem Aleichem , Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Israel Joshua Singer
- Anzia Yezierska
Zimbabwe
- Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Chenjerai Hove
- Doris Lessing, born in Persia
- Dambudzo Marechera
- Nozipa Maraire
- Charles Mungoshi
- Solomon Mutswairo
- Alexander McCall Smith, also connected with Botswana
- Stanlake Samkange
- Yvonne Vera, also connected with Canada