WRITER

André Gide

1869 - 1951

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André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement, to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Gide has received more than 1,443,484 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). André Gide is the 106th most popular writer (down from 101st in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from France and the 23rd most popular French Writer.

André Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous work is the novel The Immoralist.

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  • 95

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  • 12.22

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  • 3.59

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Gide ranks 106 out of 7,302. Before him are Ismail I, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Paulo Coelho, Abu Nuwas, and Du Fu. After him are Stephen King, Maurice Maeterlinck, August Strindberg, Haruki Murakami, Apuleius, and Jean de La Fontaine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, André Gide ranks 4. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Henri Matisse, and Grigori Rasputin. After him are Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Neville Chamberlain, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Gustaf Dalén, Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1951, André Gide ranks 2. Before him is Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are Philippe Pétain, Ferdinand Porsche, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Arnold Schoenberg, Abdullah I of Jordan, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, René Guénon, Arnold Sommerfeld, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Hermann Broch.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Gide ranks 104 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Debussy (1862), Louis XI of France (1423), François Mitterrand (1916), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Philip II of France (1165), and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520). After him are Philip V of Spain (1683), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Henry II of France (1519), Georges Danton (1759), Philippe Pétain (1856), and Charles Aznavour (1924).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Gide ranks 23. Before him are Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), George Sand (1804), and Marquis de Sade (1740). After him are Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Anatole France (1844), Jean Cocteau (1889), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and Paul Verlaine (1844).

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