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Recent Examples of fictionist
As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictionist
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In an interview with Runner’s World, Styles discussed marathon running with legendary Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, as well as Kiss All the Time and the impact Berlin night clubs had on his music.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2026
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So, by the way, does the fact that Ida doesn’t seem aware that the novelist has possessed her at all.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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The collaboration with Flanagan’s Red Room Pictures banner extends the studio’s partnership with one of the most commercially successful genre storytellers.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2026
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Hirokazu Kore-eda is a master storyteller whose work continues to define contemporary world cinema, while Tatsuki Fujimoto has emerged as one of the most impactful mangaka’s of the past decade.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2026
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More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Her story remains fractured—saint, prophet, brand, fabulist—but her status as one of modernism’s most disruptive figures is secure.—
Alice Gregory,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.—
Joy Williams,
The Dial,
3 Mar. 2026
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In 1989, at Dartmouth College, the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky delivered what must be one of the strangest commencement addresses of all time (and definitely one of the most Russian).—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2020
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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But on February 27, fans saw a new side of the memoirist and actor.—
Séraphine Roger,
Vanity Fair,
28 Feb. 2026
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Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Fictionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictionist. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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