List of novelists

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country:

Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.

See also List of novelists by country: France

(see also: French literature)

Honoré de Balzac, (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
Albert Camus, (1913-1960), author of The Stranger and The Plague
Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870), perhaps more movies have been made from his novels than any other; The Count of Monte Cristo has been filmed on an average of once every 18 months since films were first made.
Michel Houellebecq, Impact award winner
Gustave Flaubert, (1821-1880), author of Madame Bovary
Anatole France
Jean Genet, (1910-1986)
André Gide, (1869-1951)
Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
Guy de Maupassant, (1850-1893)
Abbé Prévost (1697-1763), author of Manon Lescaut
Marcel Proust, (1871-1922), author of In Search of Lost Time
François Rabelais, (ca. 1493-1553)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980), existentialist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1964) (rejected)
Stendhal, the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, (1783-1842), author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma
Jules Verne, (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
Voltaire, (1694-1778), satirist
Emile Zola, (1840-1902), realist, author of Nana and Germinal

Aharoni, Ada author, professor founder of IFLAC international Forum for Literature and Culture, for Peace

Kobo Abe (1924-1993) The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
Ryunosuke 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
Ichiyo 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
Ogai Mori, (1862-1922), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
Soseki Natsume, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize, 1994)
Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters
Edogawa Rampo (1894 - 1965)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, (1938-), The River Between, Caitaani muthara-Ini, Matigari

Chinua Achebe, (1930- ) Things Fall Apart, stories about the dissolution of traditional African society.
Wole Soyinka, (1934- ) first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Mario Vargas Llosa, (1936- ), ran for president, author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Leopoldo Alas, author of 'La Regenta'
Miguel de Cervantes, : El Quijote, or Don Quixote
Pérez Galdós
Juan Goytisolo: El sitio de los sitios
Juan Marsé: La Muchacha de las bragas de oro (Premio Planeta)
Eduardo Mendoza: La ciudad de los prodigios, Sin Noticias de Gurp, El Misterio de la cripta embrujada
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: El Club Dumas, Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste
Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno Martir

Max Frisch (1911 - 1991), Stiller (1954) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)