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Autofiction

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, autofiction means: Fiction that presents a version of the author's own life while deliberately blurring the boundary between autobiography and invention.

In Turkish: otofiksiyon, özkurmaca

How it is used

Use when a work deliberately mixes personal history and invention. Do not assume every narrated event really happened.

Example sentences

  1. The book is presented as autofiction: its narrator shares the author's name but describes invented events.

    Sharing a name encourages comparison without making the narrative a factual record.

  2. Our essay on autofiction examines why the writer invents a sibling she never had.

    The invented sibling reveals a deliberate fictional change to personal history.

Common collocations

  • contemporary autofiction
  • write autofiction
  • autobiographyAn account of a person's whole life, or most of it, written by that person, usually in the first person and in chronological order.
  • fictionStories, such as novels and short stories, that describe imaginary events and people rather than real ones.

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