Are there any Novelist who wrote in another language other than the most common languages?

Although things may well have been different 100-150 years ago, these days, most authors write in their native language, since that is the one in which they have the greatest expertise, and hence the greatest freedom to write as they choose. Those who do not, are usually non-native English speakers, writing in English (e.g. writers from India, such as Salman Rushdie).

Countries with high literacy rates and more artistic freedom, tend to produce larger numbers of authors/writers per capita. Also, writing books for a living is really only possible in rich countries. As such, the most visible (and hence successful) novelists tend to be those writing in European languages, but I have no doubt that there are also authors writing in just about every language spoken on Earth. Just because European-language readers don't know about them, doesn't mean that no-one buys their books (although writing in a 'poor-country' language will obviously reduce a book's potential market).

But if a book is successful in its native language (Greek, in your example), it will almost certainly get translated by a trained translator -- so the author doesn't need to (try to) do it themselves. For example, Stieg Larsson's Millenium books were originally written in Swedish (which I guess also counts as an 'uncommon' language, since it's only spoken in Sweden), but have since been translated into multiple other more 'common' languages, including English and German.

But of course it works the other way too. Many best-selling English books -- e.g. Harry Potter, Twilight, Dan Brown, etc. (NB I said 'best-selling' -- which is not the same as 'well-written'...!) -- get translated into other European languages, with the number of different translations being dependent on how successful a book has already proven itself to be.

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