English novelists

UK fiction writers

English novelists are writers of novels who are English by nationality or who write primarily within the English literary tradition.

The term typically evokes figures from Austen to Zadie Smith, spanning centuries of fiction rooted in English culture, class, and sensibility: The course surveyed English novelists from Defoe to the present.

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