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Blaise Cendrars

1887 - 1961

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Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Blaise Cendrars has received more than 295,238 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Blaise Cendrars is the 1,234th most popular writer (up from 1,250th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 125th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Writer.

Blaise Cendrars is most famous for being a poet and novelist. He wrote "La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France" which is a collection of poems about a train journey from Moscow to Beijing.

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  • 300k

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  • 60.21

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Blaise Cendrars ranks 1,234 out of 7,302. Before him are Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Harry Harrison, Juliusz Słowacki, Maurus Servius Honoratus, David Irving, and José Maria de Eça de Queirós. After him are Bhartṛhari, Boris Pahor, Radoje Domanović, Andrei Platonov, Shammai, and Vittorio Alfieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Blaise Cendrars ranks 59. Before him are Giovanni Gronchi, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Raoul Walsh, Arnold Zweig, Boris Karloff, and Bernardo Houssay. After him are Josef Harpe, Frederick Fleet, Joseph Bech, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Josef Čapek, and Sivananda Saraswati. Among people deceased in 1961, Blaise Cendrars ranks 25. Before him are Kurt Meyer, Luigi Einaudi, Dashiell Hammett, Maria of Yugoslavia, Lee de Forest, and Akiba Rubinstein. After him are Arthur Drewry, Wolfgang von Trips, Eero Saarinen, Mukhtar Auezov, Karl Korsch, and Zoltán Tildy.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars ranks 123 out of 1,015. Before him are Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jakob Steiner (1796), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Charles Bonnet (1720), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), and Paul Guldin (1577). After him are Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Matthäus Merian (1593), Margareta of Romania (1949), Judith of Habsburg (1271), Alfonsina Storni (1892), and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars ranks 14. Before him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Max Frisch (1911), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908). After him are Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Notker the Stammerer (840), and Jean Starobinski (1920).

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