The word "fictionalization" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the process of turning real events or facts into a fictional narrative. Example: "The author's fictionalization of historical events added depth to the characters and storyline." Alternatives include "adaptation" or "reimagining."
Neither the word "fictionalized" nor any word suggesting fictionalization appeared.
Hersey's next books demonstrated his gift for combining a reporter's skill for relaying facts with imaginative fictionalization.
In the French film "Sarah's Key" ("Elle s'appelait Sarah") a fictionalization of the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, thousands of Jewish families in Paris end up in Auschwitz; in modern-day Paris, Julia Jarmond, an American-born journalist, is assigned to cover the sixtieth anniversary of the events.
Wilson's fictionalization here of Dorothy Parker shows a considerable interest... Wilson, having labored on this slight, distracted tale for some of 1941 and 1942, accumulating two hundred and seven pages of handwritten yellow legal-size lined paper, evidently decided it would be a waste of his own talent to continue.
Television is by its nature a fictionalization of history; it personifies history as fable agreed upon.
Taboos are extrapolated from Claude Lanzmann's criticisms of particular representations of the Holocaust, which are wrongly extended to contesting fictionalization of nearly any serious matter.
So the most memorable studies, like Woolf's — her eight oblique pages on Rossetti illuminate the poet in a way no scholarly tome can match — are often those that make no bones about the uses of fictionalization.
The fabrication, or self-fictionalization, may have been damaging to her publishers; the appropriation of a teen hustler's and H.I.V. patient's identity may have damaged the credibility of other potential memoir writers.
I'll be curious to see if any readers are disturbed by, or even aware of, my far more modest fictionalizations of Düsseldorf.
Past intrigues and betrayals were described with relish, but only when the narrative was sufficiently deep in the past to become a kind of folk story, like today's bodice-ripping fictionalizations of Henry VIII's era.
Are there any fictionalizations of India, particularly its Mughal history, that you looked at?
