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"posthumous fame" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the fame or recognition that someone receives after their death. Example: Despite his tragic and untimely death, Vincent Van Gogh achieved posthumous fame as one of the most influential artists in history.
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He went off to Arles and posthumous fame.
He expected posthumous fame and was suspicious of it.
Stieg Larsson's posthumous fame has yielded a contested fortune.
Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame.
The desire for posthumous fame seems to me utterly mysterious, as it did to Isaiah Berlin.
But her posthumous fame rests (a little) on her work, and (mostly) on her death.
Such descriptions are unforgettable, and have decisively shaped the whole course of Keats's posthumous fame.
But for all their posthumous fame, the two men behind the camera remain a mystery.
For others, however, the reasons for the posthumous fame are more complex.
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Despite her posthumous fame she appears on American currency and in textbooks—little is certain about Sacagawea.
The biblical Song of Solomon is attributed to him albeit spuriously and likely because of his posthumous fame in the opening verse.
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