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The most-searched novelists right now, with the latest news on each.

Kiran Desai
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Kiran Desai

Indian author

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2021) (born 1948)

Sarah Waters
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Sarah Waters

Welsh novelist (1966-)

David Lipsky (author)
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David Lipsky (author)

David Lipsky is an American author. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, Time, Amazon, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR Best Books of the Year, and have been included in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Short Stories collections.

Sylvain Tesson
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Sylvain Tesson

French writer and traveller (born 1972)

Fred Vargas
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Fred Vargas

French writer, archaeologist and historian

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Elizabeth Strutt

Elizabeth Strutt, also or previously known as Elizabeth Byron, was an English writer and traveller. She was the wife of Jacob George Strutt and mother of Arthur John Strutt, and an acquaintance and critic of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whom she describes as having written "two of the most absurd and the most unpleasing sonnets in the English language". In the 1820s and 1830s she travelled in France and Switzerland, living for a time at Lausanne, and later with her husband and son moved to Rome.

Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer (1911–2006)

Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)