Continental European literary novelists

Steinunn Sigurðardóttir

Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (born 1950 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic novelist and poet who debuted at 19 with the poetry collection Sífellur and has won the Icelandic Literary Prize twice.

Sten Nadolny

Sten Nadolny is a German novelist and historian whose 1983 novel The Discovery of Slowness became one of the most successful German-language novels of its decade.

Stendhal, pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), French novelist born in Grenoble; author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, pioneer of psychological realism, consul at Civitavecchia, recognized mainly posthumously.

Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman was a Swedish writer and journalist, a leading figure of the 1940s literary generation. He wrote four novels and over 1,350 daily satirical verses.

Stijn Streuvels

Stijn Streuvels, pseudonym of Frank Lateur (1871–1969), was a Belgian naturalistic novelist of Flemish farming life, whose masterpiece De vlaschaard (1907) is his best-known book.

Stratis Myrivilis

Stratis Myrivilis was the pseudonym of Evstratios Stamatopoulos, a Greek novelist born on Lesbos in 1892, best known for the anti-war novel Life in the Tomb.

Svava Jakobsdóttir

Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004) was an Icelandic author and politician, a pioneer of modernist fiction who wrote Leigjandinn and served in the Althingi from 1971 to 1979.

Sven Delblanc

Sven Delblanc (1931–1992) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and literary historian, known for the Hedeby and Samuel cycles and winner of the 1982 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Sven Holm

Sven Holm (1940–2019) was a Danish author and dramatist who wrote for over fifty years, best known internationally for the 1967 post-apocalyptic novel Termush, Atlanterhavskysten.

Svend Åge Madsen

Svend Åge Madsen is a Danish author, born in 1939 in Aarhus, whose novels and drama blend realism and fantasy and have earned major Danish literary awards.

Tadeusz Borowski

Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish poet and prose writer, Auschwitz and Dachau prisoner, author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, We Were in Auschwitz, Farewell to Maria, and The World of Stone.

Taras Prokhasko

Taras Prokhasko (Тарас Прохасько), born 1968 in Ivano-Frankivsk, is a contemporary Ukrainian novelist, essayist, and journalist, best known for the novel NeprOsti (2002) and winner of the 2020 Shevchenko National Prize.

Tarık Buğra

Tarık Buğra (Süleyman Tarık Buğra, 1918–1994) was a Turkish novelist, playwright, and journalist, best known for Küçük Ağa, a 1963 novel of the Turkish War of Independence.

Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and poet from Vinje in Telemark who wrote in Nynorsk and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1964 for The Ice Palace.

Tatyana Tolstaya (Татьяна Никитична Толстая)

Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (Татьяна Никитична Толстая), born 1951, Russian writer and TV presenter, granddaughter of Alexei Tolstoy; author of the postmodernist dystopian novel Kys (2000), Triumph prize winner, and co-host of Shkola zlosloviya.

Tezer Özlü

Tezer Özlü (1942–1986) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator known for Cold Nights of Childhood (1980) and for Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk, which won the Marburg Literature Prize.

Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane, born Henri Théodore Fontane (1819–1898), was a German novelist, poet, and journalist and the leading representative of poetic realism, best known for late novels including Effi Briest.

Theodor Kallifatides

Theodor Kallifatides (Θοδωρής Καλλιφατίδης), born 1938 in Molaoi, Greece, is a Greek-Swedish author and translator who emigrated to Sweden in 1964, known for his trilogy on his Greek childhood village.

Thit Jensen

Thit Jensen, full name Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen (1876–1957), was a Danish novelist and lecturer, sister of Johannes V. Jensen, known for novels about women's lives and campaigns for contraception.

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist and 1929 Nobel laureate, author of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus; anti-fascist exile in the United States 1938–1952.

Tom Kristensen

Tom Kristensen (1893–1974) was a Danish author and literary critic, a leading interwar figure best known for the novel Hærværk (1930) and decades as Politiken's chief reviewer.

Tomris Uyar

Tomris Uyar (Tomris Gedik) was a Turkish short-story writer and translator from English, born in Istanbul in 1941, who won the Sait Faik award twice.

Tõnu Õnnepalu

Tõnu Õnnepalu, who also writes as Emil Tode, is an Estonian writer whose 1993 novel Piiririik, translated as Border State, became one of Estonia's most translated works.

Torgny Lindgren

Torgny Lindgren, full name Gustav Torgny Lindgren (1938–2017), was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy from 1991 whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Ulas Samchuk

Ulas Samchuk (Улас Самчук; 1905–1987) was a Ukrainian prose writer and journalist whose trilogy Volyn and novel Mariia chronicle 20th-century Ukrainian peasant and émigré life; exiled in Europe, he settled in Toronto, Canada, in 1948.

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian novelist, semiotician, and medievalist, professor of Semiotics at Bologna; author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Opera aperta, and Trattato di semiotica generale.

Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) was a German novelist, translator, and editor who made the division of Germany his central subject; his four-volume Jahrestage (1970–1983) is a major twentieth-century German novel.

Väinö Linna

Väinö Linna (1920–1992) was a Finnish novelist and former factory worker whose war novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and trilogy Under the North Star became foundations of Finnish literature.

Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Rasputin, born Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, was a Soviet and Russian writer, a leading figure of village prose whose novellas include Live and Remember and Farewell to Matyora.