Do most nations produce novels?

Do most nations produce novels?
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I didn’t want your poor question to become an orphan so I just spent some time searching on amazon.com. Several novels and anthologies came up from a search on “Korean fiction” and some came up for a search on “Indonesian fiction.” (Korean-American fiction was listed separately.) You could serach this way for other countries if you wish but I imagine most countries do produce novelists. The only exceptions I would imagine might be some extremely repressive totalitarian countries such as Myanmar, but even there, there might be an underground press.
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