List of Cornish writers



This is a list of writers in English and Cornish, who are associated with Cornwall and Cornish linguists (Rol a skriforyon Kernewek). Not all of them are native Cornish people.

Some Cornish writers have reached a high level of prominence, e.g. William Golding, who won the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1983), D. M. Thomas who won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q").

Some of the "incomers" have written extensively about Cornwall and the Cornish, e.g. Daphne du Maurier, who went as far as joining Mebyon Kernow.

Historians and scholars
See List of Cornish historians

Novelists



 * Denys Val Baker, novelist and writer
 * A. P. Bateman, thriller writer and bestselling author
 * Wilfred Bennetto, writer of the first full-length novel in Cornish
 * Janie Bolitho, crime writer
 * W. J. Burley, Wycliffe series
 * Jack Clemo, poet
 * Myrna Combellack, novelist and scholar
 * Michael J Darracott, writer, lived in Newlyn
 * Daphne du Maurier
 * Martin Fido. crime writer
 * Patrick Gale
 * Robert Goddard
 * William Golding, Nobel laureate
 * Winston Graham, Poldark series
 * Tim Heald
 * Joseph Hocking, author and preacher
 * Silas Hocking, author and preacher
 * Ann Kelley
 * Alan M. Kent, poet, novelist and scholar
 * John le Carré
 * Charles Lee, (1870–1956)
 * Katharine Lee (Kitty Lee Jenner, 1854–1936)
 * Herman Cyril McNeile, "Sapper", novelist
 * Jessica Mann, crime writer
 * Charlotte Mary Matheson, novelist
 * Wyl Menmuir, novelist
 * Gertrude Parsons, Roman Catholic novelist
 * Mark Guy Pearse, author and preacher
 * Susan Penhaligon
 * Rosamunde Pilcher
 * Arthur Quiller-Couch, aka "Q", novelist and scholar
 * Alastair Reynolds, lived in Cornwall as child
 * Jean Rhys, novelist, lived at Bude for a period
 * Angie Sage, author and illustrator
 * Howard Spring
 * Sharon Tregenza
 * Derek Tangye
 * Nigel Tangye
 * D. M. Thomas
 * E. V. Thompson
 * Enys Tregarthen, writer and folklorist
 * John Coulson Tregarthen, novelist and naturalist
 * Craig Weatherhill, archaeologist, Cornish historian, writer
 * Mary Wesley
 * Colin Wilson

Playwrights and dramatists

 * Nick Darke, playwright
 * Daphne du Maurier, novelist and playwright
 * Samuel Foote, playwright and actor
 * William Golding
 * William Killigrew, playwright
 * Charles Lee
 * Donald Rawe
 * D. M. Thomas

Children's writers

 * Nick Carter
 * Ann Kelley
 * Jack Trelawny
 * Sharon Tregenza

Bards of the Gorseth Kernow
This is an honorary position, not all of the bards are Cornish or based in Cornwall. For purposes of brevity, those mentioned above are not repeated.