Hungary
- 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 c.
- 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 c.
- 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)
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