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Also a novelist, Hval’s episodic songs brim with intertextual references, conceptual grist, and spoke-sung experimentation, but never stray far from the pleasures of melody.
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
In her new memoir, poet and Dayton Literary Peace Prize–winning novelist Hala Alyan tells a story of telling stories.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Bakunin is better known, as is the novelist Ivan Turgenev; other characters based on real people—Vissarion Belinsky, a literary critic; Nikolai Stankevich, a poet and philosopher who died at age 26—are now largely forgotten, as is Herzen’s great friend Nikolai Ogarev.
—Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
The novelist Arundhati Roy wrestles with her own ambivalent feelings about her mother in this new memoir.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
In her new memoir, poet and Dayton Literary Peace Prize–winning novelist Hala Alyan tells a story of telling stories.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Bakunin is better known, as is the novelist Ivan Turgenev; other characters based on real people—Vissarion Belinsky, a literary critic; Nikolai Stankevich, a poet and philosopher who died at age 26—are now largely forgotten, as is Herzen’s great friend Nikolai Ogarev.
—Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
The novelist Arundhati Roy wrestles with her own ambivalent feelings about her mother in this new memoir.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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