list of novelists

Honor 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)
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)
Anatole France
Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
Marcel Proust, (1871-1922)
Franois Rabelais, (ca. 1493-1553)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980), existentialist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1964) (rejected)
Jules Verne, (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
Voltaire, (1694-1778), satirist
Emile Zola, (1840-1902), realist

Heinrich Bll, (1917-1985)
Alfred Dblin, (1878-1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921-1990), author of The Visit
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), polymath.
Gnter Grass, (1927- ), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
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)
Patrick Sskind (1949- ), author of Perfume

Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989), Nobel Prize for Literature (1969)
Brendan Behan, (1923-1964)
Roddy Doyle, (1958-)
Thomas Flanagan, (1923-2002)
James Joyce, (1882-1941), author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)
Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
Brian O'Nolan, (1911-1966) better known as Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gcopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn...
Laurence Sterne, (1713-1768) played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries before Postmodernism was invented.
Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) author of biting satires. Gulliver's Travels was Bowdlerised into children's literature.
Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), also a playwright, imprisoned for homosexual acts

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.

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

Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965)
Tadeusz Konwicki (1926– )
Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887)
Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954)
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969)
Stanislaw Lem (1921- )
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
Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925)
Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911-1975)

Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956), Nostalgia (1993), Orbitor II (2002),
Ion Creangă (1839-1889),
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986),
Panait Istrati (1884-1935),
Camil Petrescu (1894-1957), Patul lui Procust (1933),
Marin Preda (1927-1980), Moromeţii (1956),
Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944), Ion (1920),
Mihail Sadoveanu (1880-1961), Fraţii Jderi (1935-1942),
Ioan Slavici (1848-1925), Moara cu noroc (1860),
Vasile Voiculescu (1884-1963), Zahei orbul 1952;

Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940), author of The Master and Margarita
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821-1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed
Nikolai Gogol, (1809-1852), author of Dead Souls
Ivan Goncharov, (1812-1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841)
Nikolai Leskov, (1831-1895)
Eduard Limonov, author of It's Me, Eddie and Memoir of a Russian Punk
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)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918- ), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, also historian
Aleksey K. Tolstoy, (1817-1875)
Aleksey N. Tolstoy, (1883-1945)
Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910) of whose greatest book it was said, "Loved the war, hated the peace".

Leopoldo Alas, author of 'La Regenta'
Miguel de Cervantes, : El Quijote, or Don Quixote
Prez Galds
Juan Goytisolo: El sitio de los sitios
Juan Mars: 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 Prez-Reverte: El Club Dumas, Las aventuras del Capitn Alatriste
Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno Martir