noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.
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Now the Arab world's greatest living novelist may lose his right to call himself a writer.
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There was some fiction but not one of the great nineteenth century novelists was represented in it.
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Stephen had never been able to talk to her about her relationship with the great novelist .
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Greene wasn't a great novelist .
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Timothy Mo, tall, dark, handsome, and one of the great novelists of the late twentieth century.
new
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What distinguishes the new novelists from their regionalist predecessors is, above all, their attitude towards the writer's craft.
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Many of the new novelists , in fact, portray the alienation of Western man.
romantic
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The romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland has joined the battle to save an eleventh century abbey.
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One of the guests was a rather fey romantic novelist .
■ VERB
write
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It's written by the novelist Susan Hill.
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In this context, what goes on outside, what is actually written by poets and novelists , is of minor interest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Budding gay novelist Larry Kramer is enjoying success at last.
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Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.
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Japanese novelists deal with the question of old age in a way few other writers can aspire to.
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The book quotes from the diaries of novelist Evelyn Waugh.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He's the missing working-class novelist , the link between Lawrence and Sillitoe.
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He was an actor, director, artist, singer, composer and novelist .
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Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.
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The novels which followed this decision are the fulfilment of Hardy's career as a novelist .
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They are leaving us novelists without any subjects.