This is a list of writers in English and Cornish, who are associated with Cornwall and Cornish linguists (). 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
Poets
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
Linguists and writers in Cornish
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.
References
Further reading
William Henry Kearley Wright, West-country Poets: their lives and works (1896)