littérateur
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of littérateur
From French, dating back to 1800–10; see origin at literator
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Among the key figures in her story are that sociable littérateur Sydney Cockerell and the high-rolling book dealers A.S.W.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2019
“You belong to a party, my friend,” wrote the brilliant French littérateur Paul Valéry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2018
It’s the kind of output you associate with a writer of romance novels, or an army of them, not an acclaimed littérateur.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2013
Every so often, a celebrated littérateur opines on the subject of videogames, having just discovered or rediscovered them.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
Not long after my arrival in France, a visit was announced, from a person who was entirely unknown to me, but who called himself a littérateur.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
The young, often first-generation Jewish-American littérateurs of that period — Alfred Kazin, Grace Paley, Irving Howe among them — took on a distinctly strident attitude: Literature, to them, was a form of citizenship.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2018
In time, Sartre argued, the littérateurs began to buck the bourgeoisie and to set literature up “as being, in principle, independent of any sort of ideology”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2017
The most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
J. had a great reputation as a wit, was a genial and kindly man, and a favourite with his fellow littérateurs, who raised a fund of £2000 for his family on his death.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
The littérateurs of his era looked up to him as the arbiter elegantiarum, especially in the domain of Japanese versification.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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