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Albert Cossery

1913 - 2008

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Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Cossery has received more than 69,724 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Cossery is the 2,330th most popular writer (up from 2,536th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 343rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 70k

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  • 55.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Albert Cossery ranks 2,330 out of 7,302. Before her are Emma Jung, Armin T. Wegner, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Marie Under, Ahron Daum, and Richard Aldington. After her are Kingsley Amis, Mary Baker Eddy, Elizabeth von Arnim, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Frederic W. H. Myers, and Andrei Voznesensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Albert Cossery ranks 127. Before her are Pak Song-chol, William P. Rogers, René Schneider, Heinrich Bär, Mouloud Feraoun, and William Tolbert. After her are Anthony Quayle, Alexander Kotov, Donald Maclean, Charles Berlitz, Amrita Sher-Gil, and Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza. Among people deceased in 2008, Albert Cossery ranks 103. Before her are Marcial Maciel, Estelle Getty, Sofiko Chiaureli, Pak Song-chol, Arthur Chung, and Mitch Mitchell. After her are Vice Vukov, Charles Tilly, Dora Ratjen, Suzanne Pleshette, Géza Kalocsay, and Joseph Weizenbaum.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Albert Cossery ranks 345 out of 642. Before her are Iset (-1350), Nasr Abu Zayd (1943), Timocharis (-320), Mariamne (-100), Ahmad al-Tayyeb (1946), and Neferkaure (-2150). After her are Nebettawy (-1250), Hypsicles (-190), Antipope Dioscorus (500), Moshé Mizrahi (1931), Sotion (-250), and Didymus Chalcenterus (-63).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Albert Cossery ranks 27. Before her are Edmond Jabès (1912), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Anastasius Sinaita (630), Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), and Zosimos of Panopolis (250). After her are Sotion (-250), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Dionysius Periegetes (100), Apion (-30), Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), and Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874).

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