"fictionist" meaning in English

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          "text": "Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.",
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        "One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist."
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          "roman": "mythistoriográfos",
          "sense": "a writer of fiction",
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          "word": "μυθιστοριογράφος"
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          "sense": "a writer of fiction",
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