litterateur
Person of letters
A litterateur is a person devoted to literature, especially a professional writer or literary critic.
The term carries a slightly pretentious or old-fashioned air, often used with irony or to suggest someone more concerned with literary culture than with producing original work: He fancied himself a litterateur, though he'd published nothing.
Writer of prose narratives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- poetWriter of verse
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- authorCreator of written works
biographer · critic · memoirist · reviewer · pamphleteer · chronicler · wordsmith · raconteur
Learned, studious person
- polymathMulti-domain expert
- savantPerson of profound learning
- sageWisdom keeper or seasoning
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
academic · pundit · learned · bookish · well-read · cultivated · highbrow · pedant
Educated in arts, manners
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- urbaneRefined and courteous
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
- polishedSmooth, refined, accomplished
elegant · aesthete · connoisseur · discerning · tasteful · genteel · artistic · dilettante
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- poetWriter of verse
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
author · biographer · critic · memoirist · reviewer · pamphleteer · chronicler · wordsmith · raconteur · storyteller
scholar
Learned, studious person
intellectual · academic · pundit · learned · bookish · well-read · cultivated · highbrow · pedant · bluestocking
cultured
Educated in arts, manners
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- urbaneRefined and courteous
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
polished · elegant · aesthete · connoisseur · discerning · tasteful · genteel · artistic · dilettante · patrician
prose
Unversified language
fiction · narrative · humanities · canon · genre · satire · memoir · periodical · review
litterateurphilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
illiterate · lowbrow · anti-intellectual · ignoramus · yahoo
litterateurhack
Shortcut or breach
hack writer · pulp writer · scribbler · penny-a-liner · drudge
letters, literature, literary, lettered, literate, literacy, illiterate, obliterate, illiteracy