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List of Cornish writers

This is a list of writers in English and Cornish, who are associated with Cornwall and Cornish linguists (Cornish: 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.

See List of Cornish historians

• Nick Darke, playwright^[20]
• Daphne du Maurier, novelist and playwright
• Samuel Foote, playwright and actor
• William Golding
• William Killigrew, playwright
• Charles Lee
• Donald Rawe
• D. M. Thomas

• Nick Carter^[21]
• Ann Kelley
• Jack Trelawny^[22]
• Sharon Tregenza^[23]

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.

• William Henry Kearley Wright, West-country Poets: their lives and works (1896)

• Poetry Cornwall