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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 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 1,326,572 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). André Gide is the 101st most popular writer (up from 102nd in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from France (down from 98th in 2019) and the 22nd 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Gide ranks 101 out of 5,755. Before him are George Sand, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, José Saramago, Theodor Herzl, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. After him are Charles Bukowski, Erich Maria Remarque, Nicolas Flamel, Cato the Elder, Anatole France, and Boris Pasternak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, André Gide ranks 5. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Grigori Rasputin, Henri Matisse, and Neville Chamberlain. After him are Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, Fritz Pregl, and Hans Spemann. Among people deceased in 1951, André Gide ranks 2. Before him is Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are Philippe Pétain, Ferdinand Porsche, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Abdullah I of Jordan, Arnold Sommerfeld, René Guénon, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Hermann Broch.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Gide ranks 104 out of 6,011. Before him are Peter Abelard (1079), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Charles Aznavour (1924), Louis XVII of France (1785), George Sand (1804), and Charles VII of France (1403). After him are Philippe Pétain (1856), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Danton (1759), and Nicolas Flamel (1330).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Gide ranks 22. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Romain Rolland (1866), Marquis de Sade (1740), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), and George Sand (1804). After him are Nicolas Flamel (1330), Anatole France (1844), François Rabelais (1494), François Villon (1431), Sully Prudhomme (1839), and Paul Verlaine (1844).

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