Editing List of Russian people (section)

====Novel and short story authors====
{{main|Russian novelists}}

[[File:Dostoevskij 1872.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]]]
[[File:Портрет Гоголя.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Nikolai Gogol]]]]

[[File:Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887).jpg|thumb|90px|[[Leo Tolstoy]]]]
*[[Chinghiz Aitmatov]], [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]] and Russian writer, author of ''[[Jamila (novel)|Jamilya]]''
*[[Vasily Aksyonov]], author of the Moscow [[saga]] ''[[Generations of Winter]]''
*[[Boris Akunin]], famous for his [[detective fiction]], author of ''[[The Diamond Chariot]]''
*[[Sholem Aleichem]], important [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jewish]] writer, the famous musical ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' was based on Aleichem's story ''[[Tevye|Tevye the Dairyman]]''
*[[Isaac Babel]], well-known [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jewish]] writer, author of ''[[The Odessa Tales]]''
*[[Andrei Bely]], author of the novel ''[[Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'', poet
*[[Alexander Belyayev]], major science fiction writer, author of ''[[Amphibian Man]]'' and ''[[Ariel (novel)|Ariel]]''
*[[Valery Bryusov]], important [[Russian symbolism|symbolist]] writer, author of the novel ''[[The Fiery Angel (novel)|The Fiery Angel]]''
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]], author of ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'', which ''[[The Times]]'' of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century
*[[Kir Bulychev]], author of the science fiction anthology ''[[Half a Life (Kir Bulychev)|Half a Life]]''
*[[Ivan Bunin]], short story writer and poet, first Russian to be awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]
*[[Anton Chekhov]], famous for his short stories and plays; author of ''[[The Lady with the Dog]]'', ''[[The Black Monk (short story)|The Black Monk]]''
*[[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]], influential revolutionary writer, author of ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What Is to Be Done?]]''
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], author of ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]'', ''[[The Possessed (novel)|The Possessed]]'', ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''
*[[Sergei Dovlatov]], Russian writer who [[Emigration|emigrated]] to the US, author of the novel ''[[Affiliate (novel)|Affiliate]]''
*[[Dmitry Glukhovsky]], author of the [[post-apocalyptic novel]] ''[[Metro 2033 (novel)|Metro 2033]]''
*[[Nikolai Gogol]], considered the "father" of Russian [[Realism (arts)|realism]], author of ''[[The Overcoat]]'', ''[[The Nose (Gogol)|The Nose]]'', ''[[Dead Souls]]''
*[[Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov|Ivan Goncharov]], author of ''[[Oblomov]]''
*[[Maxim Gorky]], founder of [[socialist realism]], author of ''[[Twenty-six Men and a Girl]]''
*[[Vasily Grossman]], author of ''[[Life and Fate]]'', described by ''[[Le Monde]]'' as "the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century"
*[[Ilf and Petrov]] popular satirists, authors of ''[[The Twelve Chairs]]''
*[[Nikolai Karamzin]], prominent [[sentimentalist]] writer and major historian, author of ''Poor Liza''
*[[Valentin Katayev]], author of the industrial novel ''[[Time, Forward! (novel)|Time, Forward!]]''
*[[Veniamin Kaverin]], author of the social and adventure novel ''[[The Two Captains]]''
*[[Daniil Kharms]], Soviet [[surrealist]] and [[absurdist fiction|absurdist]] writer
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]], author of ''[[A Hero of our Time]]'', poet
*[[Nikolai Leskov]], author of ''[[Lefty (story)|Lefty]]'' and ''[[Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novel)|Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk]]''
*[[Sergey Lukyanenko]], most popular contemporary Russian [[sci-fi]] writer, author of the ''[[Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel)|Night Watch]]''
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]], author of ''[[Lolita]]'', which was ranked at #4 on the list of the [[Modern Library 100 Best Novels]]
*[[Nikolay Nosov]], [[children's writer]], author of the popular ''[[Neznaika]]'' series
*[[Vladimir Obruchev]], geologist and explorer, author of the [[science fiction]] and travel novels ''[[Hollow Earth|Plutonia]]'' and ''[[Sannikov Land]]''
*[[Yuri Olesha]], author of the innovative novel ''[[Envy (Olesha novel)|Envy]]''
*[[Nikolai Ostrovsky]], [[socialist realist]] writer, best known for his novel ''[[How the Steel Was Tempered]]''
*[[Boris Leonidovich Pasternak|Boris Pasternak]], author of ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', poet and translator, [[Nobel Prize]] winner (was forced to decline the prize)
*[[Viktor Pelevin]], [[Postmodernism|postmodernist]] writer, author of the short novel ''[[Omon Ra]]''
*[[Andrei Platonov]], author of ''[[The Foundation Pit]]''
*[[Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin|Aleksandr Pushkin]], the greatest Russian poet, novelist, author of ''[[The Captain's Daughter]]''
*[[Alexander Radishchev]], [[Political radicalism|radical]] writer, author of ''[[Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow]]''
*[[Ayn Rand]], creator of [[Objectivism]], author of ''[[The Fountainhead]]'', and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''
*[[Varlam Shalamov]], ''[[Gulag]]'' survivor, author of ''[[Kolyma Tales]]''
*[[Mikhail Sholokhov]], [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], author of ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don]]''
*[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], author of ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]''
*[[Vladimir Sorokin]], one of the most popular writers in modern Russian literature
*[[Boris and Arkady Strugatsky]], [[collaborative]] duo of Soviet science fiction writers
*[[Tatyana Tolstaya]], writer, [[TV host]], [[publicist]], novelist, and [[essayist]] from the [[Tolstoy family]]
*[[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] writer, best known for his works of [[science fiction]], author of ''[[Aelita (novel)|Aelita]]''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]], widely considered to be one of the world's greatest novelists, author of ''[[War and Peace]]'', ''[[Anna Karenina]]'', and ''[[The Death of Ivan Ilyich]]''
*[[Ivan Turgenev]], author of ''[[A Sportsman's Sketches]]'', which had an influence on the abolition of [[serfdom]] in Russia
*[[Yury Tynyanov]], important member of the [[Russian Formalism|Russian Formalist]] school, author of ''[[Lieutenant Kijé]]''
*[[Eduard Uspensky]], children's writer known for his fictional characters [[Gena the Crocodile]] and [[Cheburashka]]
*[[Vladimir Voinovich]], author of the well-known novel ''[[The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin]]''
*[[Ivan Yefremov]], paleontologist and science fiction writer, founder of [[taphonomy]], author of ''[[The Land of Foam]]'', ''[[Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale]]'' and ''[[Thais of Athens]]''
*[[Yevgeny Zamyatin]], author of the [[dystopia]]n novel ''[[We (novel)|We]]'', which influenced [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', and [[Ayn Rand]]'s ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]''