The phrase "a protagonist in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a character who plays a leading role in a story, play, or other narrative forms.
Example: "In the novel, the author introduces a protagonist in a world filled with magic and adventure."
Alternatives: "a main character in a" or "a leading figure in a".
Several years ago Mr. Zamili was a protagonist in a very different drama.
It seems like the kind of can that a protagonist in a Springsteen song would crush under his boot.
He still didn't have distinct traits, he was rather vague, elusive, hazy, but he already nurtured the wish to be a protagonist in a book.
I meet a mute, dancing, stressed-out businessman, a woman running a Love Bank, and star as a protagonist in a film.
A statement from the association said: "Early in 2014, he [Evans] was a protagonist in a major national debate about the teaching and commemoration of the first world war.
The writing doesn't allow for much character development, but Joanna Bending takes every chance she gets as Hopkirk, someone whose motives may be muddier than a protagonist in a 17th-century revenge drama, but whose battle tactics could prove lethal to the would-be leader.
Our prime minister sees himself as a protagonist in an expanding conflict across the Middle East.
It's correct to think of light as his subject, but when he was most ambitious light was a protagonist in an epic narrative of creation and destruction — an Anglo-Zoroastrian burnout.
It's correct to think of light as his subject, but when he was most ambitious light was a protagonist in an epic narrative of creation and destruction an Anglo-Zoroastrian burnout.
Taieb was the surname of a protagonist in an Egyptian film, "I Want My Rights," that came out after that country's uprising.
There is a protagonist in "Beauty" and even a romance.
