nov·el·ist
(nŏv′ə-lĭst)n.
A writer of novels.
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novelist
(ˈnɒvəlɪst)n
(Professions) a writer of novels
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nov•el•ist
(ˈnɒv ə lɪst)n.
a person who writes novels.
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novelist
noun author, writer The key to success as a romantic novelist is absolute belief in your story.
Novelists
Peter Abrahams (South African), Chinua Achebe (Nigerian), Peter Ackroyd (English), Douglas Adams (English), Richard Adams (English), Alain-Fournier (French), Brian Aldiss (English), James Aldridge (Australian), Al Alvarez (English), Eric Ambler (English), Kingsley Amis (English), Martin Amis (English), Mulk Raj Anand (Indian), Maya Angelou (U.S.), Lucius Apuleius (Roman), Jeffrey Archer (English), Isaac Asimov (U.S.), Margaret Atwood (Canadian), Louis Auchincloss (U.S.), Jane Austen (English), Beryl Bainbridge (English), R M Ballantyne (Scottish), J G Ballard (English), Honoré de Balzac (French), Iain Banks (Scottish), Lynne Reid Banks (English), Elspeth Barker (Scottish), Pat Barker (English), Julian Barnes (English), Stanley Barstow (English), John Barth (U.S.), H E Bates (English), Nina Bawden (English), Simone de Beauvoir (French), Sybille Bedford (British), Max Beerbohm (English), Aphra Behn (English), Saul Bellow (Canadian), Andrei Bely (Russian), David Benedictus (English), (Enoch) Arnold Bennett (English), John Berger (English), Thomas Berger (U.S.), Maeve Binchy (Irish), R(ichard) D(oddridge) Blackmore (English), Alan Bleasdale (English), Heinrich Böll (German), Elizabeth Bowen (Irish), Paul Bowles (U.S.), William Boyd (Scottish), Malcolm Bradbury (English), Barbara Taylor Bradford (English), Melvin Bragg (English), John Braine (English), André Brink (South African), Vera Brittain (English), Louis Bromfield (U.S.), Anne Brontë (English), Charlotte Brontë (English), Emily (Jane) Brontë (English), Christina Brooke-Rose (English), Anita Brookner (English), Brigid Brophy (English), George Douglas Brown (Scottish), George Mackay Brown (Scottish), John Buchan (Scottish), Pearl Buck (U.S.), Mikhail Afanaseyev Bulgakov (Russian), John Bunyan (English), Anthony Burgess (British), Fanny Burney (English), Edgar Rice Burrows (U.S.), William Burroughs (U.S.), Samuel Butler (English), A S Byatt (English), Italo Calvino (Italian), Albert Camus (French), Elias Canetti (Bulgarian), Truman Capote (U.S.), Peter Carey (Australian), Angela Carter (English), Barbara Cartland (English), Willa Cather (U.S.), Camilo José Cela (Spanish), Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish), Raymond Chandler (U.S.), G K Chesterton (English), Agatha (Mary Clarissa) Christie (English), Arthur C Clarke (English), James Clavell (U.S.), Jon Cleary (Australian), J M Coetzee (South African), Colette (French), (William) Wilkie Collins (English), Ivy Compton-Burnett (English), Richard Condon (U.S.), Evan Connell (U.S.), Joseph Conrad (Polish-British), Catherine Cookson (English), James Fenimore Cooper (U.S.), Jilly Cooper (English), William Cooper (English), Maria Correlli (English), Stephen Crane (U.S.), Lionel Davidson (English), (William) Robertson Davies (Canadian), Daniel Defoe (English), Len Deighton (English), E M Delafield (English), Don DeLillo (U.S.), Thomas de Quincy (English), Anita Desai (Indian), Peter De Vries (U.S.), Charles (John Huffam) Dickens (English), Monica Dickens 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Translations
رِوائيرُوَائِيّ
romanopisec
forfatterromanforfatter
romaanikirjailija
novelistromanopisac
regényíró
skáldsagnahöfundur
小説家
소설가
romanschrijverromancier
románopisec
romanopisec
romanförfattare
นักแต่งนวนิยาย
romancıroman yazarı
người viết tiểu thuyết
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novelist
[ˈnɒvəlɪst] n → romancier/iére m/fCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
novelist
n → Romanschriftsteller(in) m(f), → Romancier m
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novelist
[ˈnɒvəlɪst] n → romanziere/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
novel1
(ˈnovəl) noun a book telling a long story in prose. the novels of Charles Dickens.
ˈnovelist noun the writer of a novel. Dickens was a great novelist.
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novelist
→ رُوَائِيّ romanopisec romanforfatter Romanschriftsteller μυθιστοριογράφος novelista romaanikirjailija romancier romanopisac scrittore 小説家 소설가 romanschrijver romanforfatter powieściopisarz romancista писатель-романист romanförfattare นักแต่งนวนิยาย romancı người viết tiểu thuyết 小说家Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009