fictionist

English

Etymology

From fiction +‎ -ist.

Noun

fictionist (plural fictionists)

1. One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.
   • 1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, volume 11, number 20:

     Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.

Translations

a writer of fiction

• Greek: μυθιστοριογράφος (el) m or f (mythistoriográfos)
• Hungarian: regényíró (hu)