Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH, CBE (Westminster, December 21, 1905 - March 28 2000) was a British novelist best known for his work A Dance to the Music of Time, translated into Spanish as A Dance to the Music time, a monumental work in twelve volumes published between 1951 and 1975. He was the son of an officer of the Welch Regiment.

Powell was considered by writers like Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis as one of best British novelists of the twentieth century, and was the English equivalent of Marcel Powell Proust.1 works still in print continuously, and his works have been adapted for TV.