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plural litterateurs, feminine litterateuse or litteratrice
A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer. quotations examples
[…] ; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.
1877, William Herman (pseudonym; Ambrose Bierce), The Dance of Death, pages 7–8
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.
1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4