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The Most Famous

WRITERS from French Guiana

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This page contains a list of the greatest Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in French Guiana. This makes French Guiana the birth place of the 133rd most number of Writers behind Dominica and Honduras.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Writers of all time. This list of famous Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Léon Damas (1912 - 1978)

With an HPI of 47.85, Léon Damas is the most famous Writer.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Léon-Gontran Damas (March 28, 1912 – January 22, 1978) was a French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. He also used the pseudonym Lionel Georges André Cabassou.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1912 and 1912. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Léon Damas.

Deceased Writers

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