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Aimé Césaire

1913 - 2008

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Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; French: [ɛme fɛʁnɑ̃ david sezɛʁ]; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word négritude in French. He founded the Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958, and served in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1993 and as President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 1983 to 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aimé Césaire has received more than 924,529 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Aimé Césaire is the 931st most popular writer (down from 922nd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Martinique (up from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Writer.

Aimé Césaire is most famous for his book "Discourse on Colonialism" in which he discusses the negative effects of colonialism.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aimé Césaire ranks 931 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucius Accius, Vinicius de Moraes, Joost van den Vondel, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Ann Radcliffe, and W. G. Sebald. After him are Thomas Pynchon, Jean de La Bruyère, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Lafcadio Hearn, Ouyang Xiu, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Aimé Césaire ranks 47. Before him are Witold Lutosławski, Erich Priebke, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Jacobo Árbenz, Vinicius de Moraes, and Muddy Waters. After him are Masanobu Fukuoka, Charles Trenet, Mary Ainsworth, Gert Fröbe, Tito Gobbi, and Mehmet Shehu. Among people deceased in 2008, Aimé Césaire ranks 37. Before him are George Emil Palade, John Archibald Wheeler, Leonid Hurwicz, Mel Ferrer, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, and Thomas Huckle Weller. After him are Edward Norton Lorenz, Ivan Rebroff, Masanobu Fukuoka, Chiara Lubich, George Carlin, and Giuseppe Di Stefano.

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In Martinique

Among people born in Martinique, Aimé Césaire ranks 3 out of 26. Before him are Alexandre de Beauharnais (1760), and Frantz Fanon (1925). After him are Édouard Glissant (1928), Karine Jean-Pierre (1974), Gérard Janvion (1953), René Maran (1887), Patrick Chamoiseau (1953), Euzhan Palcy (1958), Wendie Renard (1990), Allen Chastanet (1960), and Joël Abati (1970).

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Among WRITERS In Martinique

Among writers born in Martinique, Aimé Césaire ranks 2. Before him are Frantz Fanon (1925). After him are Édouard Glissant (1928), René Maran (1887), and Patrick Chamoiseau (1953).

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