autor

Definitions of autor
  1. noun
    someone who originates or causes or initiates something
    synonyms: generador
  2. noun
    someone who is the first to think of or make something
    synonyms: artífice, descubridor, inventor
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    Thomas Edison
    United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
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    creador
    a person who grows or makes or invents things
  3. noun
    someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
    synonyms: culpable, perpetrador, reo, responsable
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    infractor
    a person who transgresses moral or civil law
  4. noun
    writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
    synonyms: escritor
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    Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
    Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
    Ernest Hemingway
    an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)
    Henry James
    writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
    Franz Kafka
    Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)
    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
    wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
    George Bernard Shaw
    British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)
    François-Marie Arouet
    French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
    Honore Balzac
    French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)
    Dante Alighieri
    an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
    John Donne
    English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
    Homero
    ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
    Víctor Hugo
    French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
    Moliere
    French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)
    Marcel Proust
    French novelist (1871-1922)
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
    William Shakespeare
    English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
    Emile Zola
    French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)
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    autora, escritora
    a woman author
    biógrafo
    someone who writes an account of a person's life
    coautor
    a writer who collaborates with others in writing something
    crítico
    a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
    enciclopedista
    a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
    dramaturgo, dramático
    someone who writes plays
    ensayista
    a writer of literary works
    escritor fantasma
    a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
    periodista
    a writer for newspapers and magazines
    libretista
    author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
    letrista
    a person who writes the words for songs
    novelista
    one who writes novels
    folletista, panfletista
    a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)
    poeta, versificador
    a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
    trágico
    a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
    autobiógrafo
    someone who writes their own biography
    bardo, vate
    a lyric poet
    articulista, columnista
    a journalist who writes editorials
    corresponsal
    a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
    poeta elegíaco
    the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
    poetisa
    a woman poet
    guionista
    someone who writes screenplays
    pendolista
    informal terms for journalists
    periodista de prensa rosa, periodista del corazón
    a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories
    sonetista
    a poet who writes sonnets
    peridista de deportes
    a journalist who writes about sports
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    comunicante
    a person who communicates with others
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