autofiction

Borrowed from French autofiction, blend of autobiography +‎ fiction.

autofiction (countable and uncountable, plural autofictions)

1. A blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.

   Synonym: faction

   • 2019, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, editor, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 245:

     On the other hand, autofiction has afforded many writers a means to deal with the self in a way that straddles the genres of classic literature and goes beyond its culturally determined norms. Autofiction reveals existential motives for writing, raising them to the status of components in the autobiographical debate.

• autofictional

• autofiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Blend of autobiographie +‎ fiction.

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.fik.sjɔ̃/, /ɔ.tɔ.fik.sjɔ̃/

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autofiction f (plural autofictions)

1. faction (blend of fact and fiction)

• autofictionnel

• “autofiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.