English

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, vol. 11, no. 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.

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