prosaist

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Noun
  • His father, an Iranian-American poet and English professor at Queens College in New York City, has not responded to requests for comment.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There are love letters to the dead in Lasky’s life interwoven into these essays, including to her father (a judge who died, slowly, from Alzheimer’s), her artist mother, her dog Lucy, beloved poet friends, Mayer herself.
    Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • To reflect the current moment — when discrimination against not only the LGBTQ community but also the non-binary and transgender communities — is on the rise, playwright Lee rewrote parts of his 2022 play earlier this year in San Francisco.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Scriptnotes podcast co-host and Aladdin and Big Fish screenwriter John August will serve as co-chair of the 2026 negotiating committee alongside Survival of the Thickest creator and writer-producer Danielle Sanchez-Witzel.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Métivier, who is also the screenwriter, is a Canadian-Filipina from Montreal.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Pamir Güroğlu, chief growth officer & partner at Vitpepper Studios, and Erim Şişman, film director, scriptwriter, and director of AI Studio at Vitpepper, took to the MIP Creative Hub to premiere the trailer to the international market.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Soyinka, born on 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a renowned playwright, poet, essayist and public intellectual.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Robinson’s closest peer at the network is Nathan Fielder, a fellow bard of anxiety who deploys cringe with a masterful and unsparing hand.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • With Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet and now a Shakespeare-adjacent season of The Night Manager ahead, Petrie can’t help but think about the bard’s artistic impact on his career so far.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Former City Councilmember Ruth Herbel and former Record journalist Phyllis Zorn are in line to receive $650,000 apiece, and another former Record journalist, Deb Gruver, will get $250,000.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2025
  • New Delhi provided diplomatic protection to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite Bangladeshi counterterrorism force that targeted opposition politicians, activists, and journalists.
    MUHIB RAHMAN, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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