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novelist

[nov-uh-list] / ˈnɒv ə lɪst /


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“A typical triumph of modern science,” remarked the novelist Evelyn Waugh, “to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

In a 2008 speech at the PEN Literary Gala, the late Nobel Prize-winning Black novelist Toni Morrison anticipated this new-old order in Donald Trump’s America.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

As I ring the doorbell of Maggie O'Farrell's Edinburgh home, I wonder with some trepidation whether the acclaimed novelist might have become a bit starry after the whirlwind few months she's just had.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The book beat out a story about a suburban witch by French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye as well as Brazilian Ana Paula Maia's dystopian read about a brutal prison colony.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Writers and intellectuals, such as the world-famous novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose books depicted life in Soviet prison camps or gulags, were lucky by comparison—he merely found himself permanently ejected from his homeland in 1974.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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