prosaist

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Noun
  • Khandaqji, born in 1983 in Nablus, is a Palestinian novelist, poet, and journalist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The weekend festival will feature esteemed authors and cultural luminaries, spanning literary heavyweights, performers, celebrity authors, poets, politicians and journalists.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • How the Script Walks a Tonal Tightrope Radcliffe credited playwrights Macmillan and Donahoe with building a structure that lets the performer pivot rapidly between the heavy and the silly.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The American playwright, director and author has spent years developing a body of work that refuses easy categorization, blending psychological tension, live experimental music, philosophy and raw urban storytelling into something that feels genuinely its own.
    Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • For Duprat, being an architect himself has, however, facilitated his work as a screenwriter.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
  • It is named for Walter Bernstein, an American screenwriter who was blacklisted during Hollywood’s Red Scare in the 1950s, and has only been given twice before.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.
    Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Build Yourself a Boat, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.
    Joy Williams, The Dial, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As reigning bard of the sad girls, Eilish feels like an auspicious and thoroughly modern candidate for Esther.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Her lyrical explorations of navigating a deeply feeling heart earned her a reputation as an indie bard of melancholy and loneliness, and fans, in turn, forged an intense parasocial relationship with her.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Associated Press journalist John Leicester contributed from Paris.
    Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.

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