Nonfiction

Noun

 * 1) Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events.  Often used attributively.
 * Encyclopedias, how-to manuals and biographies are all considered nonfiction and so are kept in the nonfiction section.

Thesaurus
article, autograph, brainchild, composition, computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, holograph, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, opus, original, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter, recension, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

Alternative forms

 * non-fiction

Translations

 * Czech: literatura faktu
 * French: nonfiction
 * German: Sachbuch


 * Macedonian: стручна литература