ghostwriter

See also: ghost writer

English

ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)

A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.
- 2021 April 13, Cady Lang, “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good”, in Time‎:
  Ghostwriters, typically the faceless forces behind many books by famous non-writers, are now becoming more visible, with celebrities openly teaming up with high-profile professionals.
Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.

professional writer for another person

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: negre literari m, negre (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 捉刀手 (zhuōdāoshǒu), 代筆者／代笔者 (dàibǐ zhě)
Danish: neger (da) c
Esperanto: fantoma verkisto, kaŝita verkisto
Finnish: haamukirjoittaja (fi)
French: prête-plume (fr) m or f, nègre littéraire (fr) m, nègre (fr) m, écrivain fantôme (fr) m
German: Ghostwriter (de) m, Phantomschreiber m
Hungarian: szellemíró, néger (hu)
Italian: ghostwriter m, scrittore ombra m
Japanese: ゴーストライター (ja) (gōsutoraitā), 代作者 (だいさくしゃ, daisakusha)
Korean: 대작자 (daejakja)
Malay: penulis siluman
Polish: ghostwriter (pl) m, murzyn (pl) m (derogatory)
Portuguese: ghostwriter m or f
Romanian: negru literar m, scriitor fantomă m
Russian: литерату́рный негр (ru) m (literatúrnyj negr), негр (ru) m (negr), гостра́йтер (ru) (gostrájter) (slang)
Serbo-Croatian: pisac iz sjene m
Spanish: negro (es) m, escritor fantasma f
Swedish: spökskrivare (sv) c
Turkish: gölge yazar (tr)

ghostwriter m pers

Declension of ghostwriter

	singular	plural
nominative	ghostwriter	ghostwriterzy/ghostwritery (depreciative)
genitive	ghostwritera	ghostwriterów
dative	ghostwriterowi	ghostwriterom
accusative	ghostwritera	ghostwriterów
instrumental	ghostwriterem	ghostwriterami
locative	ghostwriterze	ghostwriterach
vocative	ghostwriterze	ghostwriterzy

Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter.

ghostwriter m or f by sense (plural ghostwriters)

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