Who wrote Metafiction?

The correct answer is 'Patricia Waugh'.

Key Points

The word ‘metafiction’ was coined by William H. Gass in an essay entitled ‘Philosophy and the Form of Fiction’ (1978). Since then, many theorists have written on metafiction, namely, Patricia Waugh (1984), Linda Hutcheon (1980;2013), Robert Scholes (1979), and Mark Currie (1995).

• Patricia Waugh described metafiction as "fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality".

Additional Information 

• Metafiction occurs in fictional stories when the story examines the elements of fiction itself.
• For example, a story that explores how stories are made by commenting on character types, how plots are formed, or other aspects of storytelling is engaged in an example of metafiction.