novelist

[US]/ˈnɒvəlɪst/
[UK]/ˈnɑːvəlɪst/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. (long) writer of fiction; an author who writes long fiction stories.

Example Sentences

a novelist of distinction.

the best novelist going

one of the country’s leading contemporary novelists

A good novelist needs great power of conception.

A novelist creates characters and a plot.

A novelist should write about what he knows best;

"Listen, Guys, I Am A Novelist, Not A Striper!"

Zora Neale Hurston is a great novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist in America.

First it was politicians,now a novelist has decided to get in on the act.

As a novelist, I feel that any experience, good or bad, is grist to my mill.

As both a novelist and a university lecturer, she has another string to her bow.

As both a novelist and a university lecturer, she has two strings to her bow.

Whenever this novelist brings out a new book, the critics have a field day, and she is attacked from all sides.

Secondly, hidden sharp point of jocosity speech expresses novelist"s satire and jeer in amusing context.

The boxer mauled the other fighter. The critics mauled the novelist's first effort.See Synonyms at batter 1

Real-world Examples

You're a successful novelist you live in New York...

Source: Go blank axis version

Paul Bowles, who was the novelist of The Sheltering Sky, wrote very beautiful sentences.

Source: Chronicle of Contemporary Celebrities

Hurston was a novelist and folklorist who was part of the Harlem Renaissance.

Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

Yes and he also writes novels, so we could also call him a novelist.

Source: 6 Minute English

The novelist Edith Wharton once wrote that the end is latent in the beginning.

Source: Time

Some years ago a famous novelist died.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

Sebastian Faulks, a reputable novelist, was commissioned to write the latest Bond book.

Source: BBC Listening Collection December 2015

Pulitzer Prize winning, novelist Oscar Hijuelos has died.

Source: NPR News October 2013 Collection

Nobel prize winning novelist Doris Lessing has died.

Source: NPR News November 2013 Collection

Her father married a woman named Raine McCorquodale, who was the daughter of a famous romance novelist.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

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