variants
or littérateur
as in writer
a person who creates a written work
Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent
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Recent Examples of litterateur
Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
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Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.
—Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
A similar lesson awaits the young litterateur who insists that a good book should move not only the head and the heart but also the loins.
—The Dirty Men and Women Of Esquire, Esquire, 29 Mar. 2017
Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.
—Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
A similar lesson awaits the young litterateur who insists that a good book should move not only the head and the heart but also the loins.
—The Dirty Men and Women Of Esquire, Esquire, 29 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for litterateur
writer
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Coming after his success as a co-writer on partner Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar hit Barbie (2023), Jay Kelly appears to signal a new chapter for the Baumbach, one less defined by fracture and regret than by celebration.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Litterateur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/litterateur. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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