WRITER

André Malraux

1901 - 1976

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Georges André Malraux ( mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Malraux has received more than 877,010 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). André Malraux is the 329th most popular writer (down from 328th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from France and the 61st most popular French Writer.

André Malraux was a French writer and philosopher. He is most famous for his novel La Condition Humaine, which was published in 1933.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Malraux ranks 329 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, J. M. Coetzee, France Prešeren, Peter Drucker, Ève Curie, and Pär Lagerkvist. After him are Théophile Gautier, Coen brothers, William Wordsworth, Mikhail Sholokhov, David Woodard, and Paul Celan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, André Malraux ranks 24. Before him are Magda Goebbels, Paul of Greece, Ernest Lawrence, Gary Cooper, Vittorio De Sica, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. After him are Mohamed Naguib, Jean Dubuffet, Joaquín Rodrigo, Simon Kuznets, Max Euwe, and Salvatore Quasimodo. Among people deceased in 1976, André Malraux ranks 13. Before him are Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Fritz Lang, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, and Bernard Montgomery. After him are Henrik Dam, Ulrike Meinhof, Man Ray, J. Paul Getty, Joachim Peiper, and Jacques Monod.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Malraux ranks 376 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Prost (1955), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Theodor Eicke (1892), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), and Ève Curie (1904). After him are Marin Mersenne (1588), Théophile Gautier (1811), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), John Vianney (1786), Hans Bethe (1906), and Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Malraux ranks 61. Before him are Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), and Ève Curie (1904). After him are Théophile Gautier (1811), Paul Éluard (1895), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Georges Bataille (1897), and Jean Genet (1910).

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