Synonyms of litterateur

litterateur

noun

ˌli-tə-rə-ˈtər 

variants or littérateur

as in writer

a person who creates a written work

Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writer
• author
• novelist
• poet
• biographer
• storyteller
• pen
• man of letters
• dramatist
• penman
• woman of letters
• playwright
• scribe
• screenwriter
• scrivener
• blogger
• scribbler
• wordsmith
• stylist
• columnist
• essayist
• journalist
• fictionist
• reporter
• memoirist
• memorialist
• autobiographer
• hagiographer
• pamphleteer
• auteur
• satirist
• fabulist
• ghostwriter
• versifier
• scriptwriter
• cowriter
• belletrist
• scenarist
• romancer
• newspaperman
• coauthor
• bard
• fictioneer
• hack
• sportswriter
• rhymer
• hatchet man
• wordmonger
• coscenarist
• prosateur
• proser
• paragrapher
• prosaist

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of litterateur

Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs. — Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025

The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en. — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021

Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur. — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019