Promote foreign drama about novelist (7)
I believe the answer is:
nourish
'promote' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'foreign drama about novelist' is the wordplay.
'foreign drama' becomes 'noh' (type of Japanese drama).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'novelist' becomes 'Uris' (American novelist Leon Uris).
'noh' enclosing 'uris' is 'NOURISH'.
(Other definitions for nourish that I've seen before include "Feed - encourage to develop" , "[OPPOSITE OF] starve" , "Supply with food, keep well" , "support" , "Feed, nurture" .)