Apuleius
See: List of Australian novelists
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivo Andrić (1892–1975)
Sarah Bouyain (born 1968)
Marie-Christine Koundja (born 1957)
(formerly Zaïre)
Romain Gary, Russian-born French writer
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature
Arthur Koestler (1905–1983)
Milan Kundera (born 1929) born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer.
Salman Rushdie (born 1947) born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, author of The Satanic Verses
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)
Karen Blixen (1885–1962) (pen name: Isak Dinesen), author of Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
Peter Høeg
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950), Nobel Prize for Literature (1944)
Christian Jungersen
Morten Korch (1876–1954)
Carl Erik Soya (1896–1983)
Waberi Abdourahman (born 1965)
Alifa Rifaat
Ahdaf Soueif
Bahaa Taher
Edward al-Kharrat
Ibrahim Aslan
Gamal Al-Ghitani
Khairy Shalaby
Muhammad Husayn Haykal
Nabil Farouk
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
Saleh Morsi
Sonallah Ibrahim
Tawfiq al-Hakim
Yahya Haqqi
Youssef Ziedan
Yusuf Idris
María Nsué Angüe (born 1945)
Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (born 1950)
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 1966)
Sass Henno (born 1982)
Kaur Kender (born 1971)
Albert Kivikas (1898–1978)
Andrus Kivirähk (born 1970)
Jaan Kross (1920–2007)
Leo Kunnas (born 1967)
Juhan Liiv (1864–1913)
Tõnu Õnnepalu (a.k.a. Emil Tode, born 1962)
Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986)
Lilli Promet (1922–2007)
Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977)
Raivo Seppo (born 1973)
Juhan Smuul (1922–1971)
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878–1940)
Enn Vetemaa (born 1936)
Heiki Vilep (born 1960)
Haddis Alemayehu
Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus
Moges Kebede
Dinaw Mengestu (born 1978)
Maaza Mengiste (born 1971)
Nega Mezlekia
Hama Tuma (born 1949)
Birhanu Zerihun (1933/4–1987)
Finland
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, List of French women writers
Jean-Baptiste Abessolo (born 1932)
Bessora (born in Belgium) (born 1968)
Rene Maran, born near Martinique (1887–1960)
Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri
Lenrie Peters
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985)
Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Hans Fallada (1893–1947)
Theodor Fontane (1819–1898)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), polymath.
Günter Grass (1927–2015), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991)
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
Uwe Johnson (1934–1984)
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–974)
Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975)
Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811)
Siegfried Lenz (born 1926)
Andreas Mand (born 1959)
Heinrich Mann (1871–1950)
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Nobel Prize for Literature (1929)
Sten Nadolny (born 1942), author of The Discovery of Slowness
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944)
W. G. Sebald (1944–2001)
Anna Seghers (1900–1983)
Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author of Perfume
Martin Walser (born 1927)
Peter Weiss (1916–1982)
Christa Wolf (1929–2011)
Arnold Zweig (1887–1968)
George Leonardos (born 1937)
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)
Sirah Balde de Labe
Camara Laye
Tierno Monénembo
Williams Sassine
Frankétienne (born 1936)
Clark Parent (born 1951)
Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)
Roberto Castillo (1950–2008)
Julio Escoto (born 1944)
Javier Abril Espinoza (born 1967)
Lucila Gamero (1873–1964)
Louis Cha
Ni Kuang
Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932)
Mihály Babits (1883–1941)
György Dalos (born 1943)
József Eötvös (1813–1871)
Péter Esterházy (born 1950)
István Fekete (1900–1970) author of Vuk
Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954)
Mór Jókai (1825–1904) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 19th century
Margit Kaffka (1880–1918)
Frigyes Karinthy (1887–1938) author of scifi novels
József Kármán (1768–1795)
Zsigmond Kemény (1814–1875)
Imre Kertész (born 1929), Nobel Prize for Literature (2002)
János Kodolányi (1899–1969)
György Konrád (born 1933)
Károly Kós (1883–1977)
Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936)
László Krasznahorkai (born 1954)
Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933)
Ervin Lázár (born 1936) author of children's novels
Iván Mándy (1918–1995) author of children's novels
Sándor Márai (1900–1989)
Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952) author of The Paul Street Boys
Ferenc Móra (1879–1934)
Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 20th century
Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922) author of popular historical novels
Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910)
Péter Nádas (born 1942)
László Németh (1901–1975)
Géza Ottlik (1912–1990)
Jenő Rejtő (1905–1943)
Henriett Seth F. (born 1980) author of a scifi novel, 2006
Magda Szabó (1917–2007) author of The Door
Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974) author of Kazohinia
Antal Szerb (1901–1945) author of Journey by Moonlight
Áron Tamási (1897–1966)
Albert Wass (1908–1998)
Miklós Bánffy
Iceland
Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), author of the Younger Edda
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998), Nobel Prize for Literature (1955)
Sjón (1962), The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (2005)
Aravind Adiga (1974–)
Ahmed Ali (1910–1994), English, Urdu
Mulk Raj Anand, English
Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Urdu, English, Hindi
Manik Bandopadhyay, Bengali
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali
Bibhutibhushan Banerjee, Bengali
Tarashankar Banerjee, Bengali
Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, Kannada
Ramavriksha Benipuri, Hindi
Ruskin Bond, English
Buddhadev Bose, Bengali, English
Nirendranath Chakraborty, Bengali
Vikram Chandra, English
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894), Bengali
Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959), English
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali
Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), English
Rajkamal Chaudhary, Hindi
Jibanananda Das, Bengali
Manoj Das,Oriya
David Davidar
Shobhaa De, English
Anita Desai, English
Kiran Desai, English
P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi
Eunice De Souza (born 1940), 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 (1847–1912) Bengali
Raj Kamal Jha, English
Amita Kanekar
Umar Alisha Kavisekhara Telugu
Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979) Marathi
Prakash Kona
Kuvempu, Kannada
Jhumpa Lahiri
Pankaj Mishra
Piyush Jha, English
Rohinton Mistry, English
Narendranath Mitra, Bengali
Gopinath Mohanty,Oriya
Jagadish Mohanty (born 1951) Odia
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali
Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) Marathi & English
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English
Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938) Marathi
Dibyendu Palit, Bengali, English
Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi
Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), Hindi
Tushar Raheja, English
Indra Bahadur Rai (1927) Nepali
Rajashree, English
Raja Rao, English
Satyajit Ray, Bengali
Arundhati Roy, English
Shomprakash Sinha Roy, English
Rammohan Roy, Bengali, English, Sanskrit
Salman Rushdie (born 1947), English
Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) Odia
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit
Vilas Sarang (born 1942) 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 (1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel laureate
Shashi Tharoor, English
Chetan Bhagat, English
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bengali
Vijayakrishnan, Malayalam
Harilal Upadhyay (1916–1994) Gujarati
Kalki Krishnamurthy, Tamil
Sujatha Rangarajan, Tamil
Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Assamese
Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Assamese, English
Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Assamese
Hiren Gohain, Assamese
Nabakanta Barua, Assamese
Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Assamese
Andrea Hirata, Tetralogy of "Laskar Pelangi" (The Rainbow Troops)
Dewi Lestari
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
See: Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists, List of Irish women writers
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nobel Prize winner; The Bridal Canopy, Yesteryear
Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939
Naomi Frankel, Shaul ve-Yohannah (Saul and Joanna) 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
Giulio Angioni
Riccardo Bacchelli
Alessandro Baricco
Giorgio Bassani
Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra (1985) is most popular work in English
Alberto Bevilacqua
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,
Massimo D'Azeglio
Edmondo De Amicis
Grazia Deledda
Umberto Eco
Beppe Fenoglio (né Giuseppe)
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 (1994)
Susanna Tamaro
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
Giovanni Verga
Elio Vittorini
Margaret Ogola
Grace Ogot (born 1930)
M.G. Vassanji (born 1950)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938), The River Between, Caitaani muthara-Ini, Matigari
Meja Mwangi (born 1948)
Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen (1885–1962)
Sinan Hasani
Teki Dervishi
Rifat Kukaj
Kurdland
Bachtyar Ali
Jalal Barzanji
Yaşar Kemal
Ata Nahai
Farhad Pirbal
Mehmed Uzun
Kovan Sindî
Andrejs Upīts
Marģeris Zariņš
Aleksandrs Čaks
Hanan Al-Shaykh
Youssef Howayek (writer and sculptor)
Elias Khoury
Amin Maalouf
Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948)
Slavko Janevski
mk:Венко Андоновски
Michèle Rakotoson
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Felix Mnthali
K. S. Maniam
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Aïda Mady Diallo
Doumbi Fakoly (born 1944)
Moussa Konaté
Yambo Ouologuem (born 1940)
Moussa Ould Ebnou
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
Mohamed Choukri
Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007)
Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010)
Abdelkebir Khatibi
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Laila Lalami
Ahmed Sefrioui
Mohamed Zafzaf
Paulina Chiziane (born 1955)
Mia Couto (born 1955)
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Lina Magaia
Samrat Upadhyay
Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914–1982): Sumnima, Tin Ghumti, Hitlar Ra Yahudi.
Parijat (writer) (1937–1993): Shirishko Phool (Blue Mimosa), Anido Pahadsangai, Paribhasit Ankhanharu.
Jagadish Ghimire (1945): Lilam, Sabiti.
Khagendra Sangraula (1946): Chetanako Pahilo Dak, Amako Chhatapati, Junakiriko Sangit.
Ismali (1955): Seto Atanka, Zero Mile.
Buddhisagar
Shrawan Mukarung
Dimon Shumsher Rana
Subin Bhattarai
Narayan Wagle
Sarubhakta
Yudhir Thapa
Prakash Kobid
Indra Bahadur Rai
Lil Bahadur Chhetri
Dhanchandra Gotame
Nayan Raj Pandey
Netherlands
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Harry Mulisch
Tip Marugg
Cees Nooteboom
Willem Frederik Hermans
Jan Wolkers
Gerard van het Reve
A.F.Th. van der Heijden
Geert van der Kolk
New Zealand
Barbara Anderson (born 1926)
Catherine Chidgey (born 1970)
Joy Cowley (born 1936)
Nigel Cox (1951–2006)
Barry Crump (1935–1996)
Tessa Duder (born 1940)
Alan Duff (born 1950)
Kate Duignan (born 1974)
Janet Frame (1924–2004) author of An Angel At My Table
Maurice Gee (born 1931)
Patricia Grace (born 1937)
Keri Hulme (born 1947)
Witi Ihimaera (born 1944)
Annamarie Jagose (born 1965)
Fiona Kidman (born 1940)
John A. Lee (1891–1982)
Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982)
Owen Marshall (born 1941)
Frederick Edward Maning (1812–1883)
Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–1972)
Rosie Scott (born 1948)
Maurice Shadbolt (1932–2004)
C. K. Stead (born 1932)
Philip Temple (born 1939)
Julius Vogel (1835–1899)
Cherry Wilder (1930–2002)
Gioconda Belli (born 1948)
See: List of Nigerian novelists
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
Jonas Lie
Erlend Loe
Gabriel Scott
Dag Solstad
Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
Tarjei Vesaas
Herbjørg Wassmo
Ahmed Ali, Founding Father Pakistan Academy of Letters, Co-founder All India Progressive Writer's Movement & Association 1933–36, Established diplomatic relations with China & Pakistan's embassy in Peking, 1951. Novelist, poet, short story writer & 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
Asim Butt
Naseem Hijazi
Ibn-e-Safi
Ishtiaq Ahmed
Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944)
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)
Ciro Alegría (1909–1967)
José María Arguedas (1911–1969)
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) (Nobel Prize, 2010)
Francisco Arcellana
Lualhati Bautista
Carlos Bulosan
Jose Dalisay
Eric Gamalinda
N.V.M. Gonzalez
Jessica Hagedorn
Amado Hernandez
Stevan Javellana
Nick Joaquin
Edgardo Reyes
Jose Rizal
Ninotchka Rosca
Bienvenido Santos
Lope K. Santos
Rogelio Sicat
F. Sionil Jose
Edilberto Tiempo
Edith Tiempo
Linda Ty-Casper
Poland
Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965)
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939)
Tadeusz Konwicki (born 1926)
Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887)
Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954)
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969)
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006)
Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910)
Jan Potocki (1761–1815)
Bolesław Prus (1847–1912)
Władysław Reymont (1867–1925), Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of The Peasants
Bruno Schulz (1892–1942)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, author of Quo Vadis
Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921)
Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925)
Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975)
See: List of Portuguese novelists and List of Portuguese women writers
Giannina Braschi (born 1953), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), and El imperio de los suenos/Empire of Dreams (1988).
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)
Gabriela Adameşteanu
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
Duiliu Zamfirescu
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
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)
Sia Figiel (born 1967)
Albert Wendt (born 1939)
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990)
See: List of Senegalese writers
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
Syl Cheney-Coker
Aminatta Forna (born 1964)
Maxamed Daahir Afrax
Faarax MJ Cawl
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945)
Abdi Sheik Abdi
Waris Dirie
See: List of South African writers
See: List of Korean novelists
Leopoldo Alas
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Pérez Galdós
Juan Goytisolo
Javier Marías
Juan Marsé
Eduardo Mendoza
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (born 1964)
Miguel de Unamuno
Martin Wickremasinghe
Shyam Selvadurai
Arthur C. Clarke
Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)
Gunadasa Amarasekara
Tayeb Salih
Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt
Leila Aboulela
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 (novel), The Emperor of Portugallia
Astrid Lindgren
Henning Mankell (born 1948)
Harry Martinson
Vilhelm Moberg
Peter Pohl
Hjalmar Söderberg
Esaias Tegnér
Switzerland
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), The Quarry
Max Frisch (1911–1991), Stiller (1954) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)
Christian Kracht (born 1966)
Pai Hsien-yung
Sanmao
Mark Behr, also connected with South Africa
Euphrase Kezilahabi (born 1944)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
David Ananou (1917–2000)
Richard Dogbeh, also connected with Benin, Senegal and Ivory Coast (1932–2003)
Kossi Efoui (born 1962)
Lauryn, also connected with Benin and Togo, born in France (born 1978)
Trinidad and Tobago
Michael Anthony
Earl Lovelace
V. S. Naipaul (born 1932)
Lakshmi Persaud
Monique Roffey
Lawrence Scott
Samuel Selvon
Hédi Bouraoui (born 1932)
Albert Memmi (born 1920)
Uganda
Moses Isegawa
China Keitetsi
Emma Andijewska (born 1931)
Andrey Kurkov (born 1961)
Larisa Alexandrovna (born 1971)
England
See: List of English novelists
Scotland
See: List of Scottish novelists
English language
Mary Balogh
Amy Dillwyn
Ken Follett
Richard Hughes (1900–1976), A High Wind in Jamaica
Jack Jones (1884–1970)
Richard Llewellyn (1907–1983), How Green Was My Valley
Jean Rhys
Bernice Rubens, author of A Solitary Grief
Howard Spring (1889–1965)
Welsh language
Daniel Owen (1836–1895)
Kate Roberts (1891–1985)
Northern Ireland
Colin Bateman (born 1962), Divorcing Jack
Ronan Bennett (born 1956), The Catastrophist
Joyce Cary (1888–1957), The Horse's Mouth
Paul Kearney, Monarchies of God
Benedict Kiely (1919–2007)
Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
Brian Moore (1921–1999), The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Flann O'Brien (1911–1966), The Third Policeman
Amanda McKittrick Ross (1860–1939)
See also: List of Northern Irish writers and List of Irish novelists
See: List of novelists from the United States
Eduardo Galeano (born 1940), writer and social commentator.
Mario Benedetti (1920–2009), Uruguay's best-known novelist
Jorge Majfud (born 1969)
Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1997)
Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937)
Juana de Ibarbourou (1892–1979)
Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924)
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914)
Isidore Lucien Ducasse (1846–1870), born in Montevideo though French by nationality
José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher
Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) Paradise of the Blind
Pham Thi Hoai (born 1960)
Phung Le Ly Hayslip (born 1949) When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Bao Ninh (born 1952)
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)
Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 1959)
Chenjerai Hove (born 1956)
Doris Lessing, born in Persia (now Iran) (born 1919)
Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987)
Nozipa Maraire (born 1966)
Charles Mungoshi (born 1947)
Solomon Mutswairo (born 1924)
Alexander McCall Smith, also connected with Botswana (born 1948)
Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988)
Yvonne Vera, also connected with Canada (1964–2005)
