WRITER

André Schwarz-Bart

1928 - 2006

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André Schwarz-Bart (May 23, 1928, Metz, Moselle - September 30, 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish ancestry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Schwarz-Bart has received more than 59,550 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). André Schwarz-Bart is the 4,058th most popular writer (up from 4,256th in 2019), the 3,933rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,871st in 2019) and the 499th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Last of the Just
1961
Le Dernier des Justes
France in fiction, Fiction, Fiction, historical
**The Last of the Just** is a post-war novel by André Schwarz-Bart originally published in French (as *Le Dernier des justes*) in 1959. It was published in an English translation by Stephen Becker in 1960. It was Schwarz-Bart’s first book and won the Prix Goncourt, France’s highest literary prize. The author was the son of a Polish Jewish family murdered by the Nazis and he based the story on the massacre in York. The story follows the "Just Men" of the Levy family over eight centuries. Each Just Man is a Lamed Vav, one of the thirty-six righteous souls whose existence justifies the purpose of humankind to God. Each "bear the world’s pains… beginning with the execution of an ancestor in 12th-century York, Englan… culminat[ing] in the story of a schoolboy, Ernie, the last… executed at Auschwitz." It has been described as an enduring classic that reminds "how easily torn is the precious fabric of civilization, and how destructive are the consequences of dumb hatred-whether a society’s henchmen are permitted to beat an Ernie Levy because he’s Jewish, or because he’s black or gay or Hispanic or homeless." Gilbert Highet, a Book-of-the-Month Club judge called it, "the saddest novel I have ever read, almost as sad as history." (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Just))
1959
L'étoile du matin
Mysticism, Fiction, Jews
2009
La mulâtresse Solitude
Fiction, History, Slave trade
1972
אחרון הצדיקים
1959
Morning Star
Fiction, general
2011

Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Schwarz-Bart ranks 4,058 out of 7,302. Before him are James Redfield, Jan Kott, E. B. White, Gary Chapman, Fay Weldon, and George Coșbuc. After him are Wipo of Burgundy, Aisha Taymur, Daniel Silva, Alexandru Macedonski, Maria Edgeworth, and Norman Manea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, André Schwarz-Bart ranks 337. Before him are Irena Veisaitė, Đorđe Martinović incident, Marian Seldes, Eno Raud, Anita Brookner, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. After him are Morihiro Saito, Hushang Ebtehaj, Arthur Foulkes, Nora Nova, Dara Singh, and Art Farmer. Among people deceased in 2006, André Schwarz-Bart ranks 203. Before him are Sven Axbom, Max Merkel, Rainer Barzel, Paul Arizin, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, and Francisco Fernández Ochoa. After him are Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Eugene Lazowski, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Jimmy Johnstone, Pjetër Arbnori, and Ray Barretto.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Schwarz-Bart ranks 3,933 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Decoin (1890), Peire Cardenal (1180), Antoine Risso (1777), Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150), and Alain Boghossian (1970). After him are Michèle Torr (1947), Raoul Coutard (1924), Jean Becquerel (1878), Claude Aveline (1901), Rémi Brague (1947), and Michel Carré (1821).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Schwarz-Bart ranks 499. Before him are Abel Bonnard (1883), Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau (1850), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Gabrielle Wittkop (1920), Rémy Belleau (1528), and Marcel Jouhandeau (1888). After him are Claude Aveline (1901), Michel Carré (1821), Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), Hervé Guibert (1955), Maurice Genevoix (1890), and Petrus Borel (1809).

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