raconteur

kertoja, tarinankertoja A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
1888, w:Henry James|Henry James, The Liar.

He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.