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autofictionist en · NOUN

Etymology

From autofiction + -ist.

Meanings

1. A writer of autofiction.
   • The autofictionist has made the drama of finding and losing the self central to her work. Raising two children during the pandemic prompted a change in focus. 2024 January 11, Katy Waldman, “Kate Zambreno Collects Herself”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2024:
   • Look: a regional realist! A flock of autofictionists! Was that a postmodernist? I've never seen one in the wild. 2020 November 18, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams's Fiction”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2023:

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