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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 63,605 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Albert Cossery is the 2,544th most popular writer (down from 2,493rd in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 338th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Albert Cossery ranks 2,544 out of 5,755. Before her are Yasutaka Tsutsui, Anne Holt, Renaud Camus, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Shere Hite, and Bion of Smyrna. After her are André Salmon, Apollonius Dyscolus, Jean Lorrain, Karin Fossum, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, and Alonso de Ercilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Albert Cossery ranks 128. Before her are Eiji Toyoda, Charles Berlitz, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Hajo Herrmann, Edith Pargeter, and Eugene Odum. After her are Motoo Tatsuhara, Tadao Horie, Alfonso López Michelsen, Alexander Kotov, Stefan Heym, and Gig Young. Among people deceased in 2008, Albert Cossery ranks 109. Before her are Marie Smith Jones, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Fred Sinowatz, Eva Dahlbeck, Baba Amte, and Bronisław Geremek. After her are Anthony Mamo, Joseph Weizenbaum, Boris Shakhlin, Šaban Bajramović, Lazare Ponticelli, and Tommy Lapid.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Albert Cossery ranks 344 out of 582. Before her are Mustafa Ben Halim (1921), André Aciman (1951), Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942), Sameera Moussa (1917), and Moshé Mizrahi (1931). After her are Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Nebetah (-1350), Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), Sayed Darwish (1892), Cleomenes of Naucratis (-400), and Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah (1096).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Albert Cossery ranks 28. Before her are Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Anastasius Sinaita (630), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), André Aciman (1951), and Olympiodorus of Thebes (301). After her are Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Bat Ye'or (1933), and Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874).

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