1887 - 1961
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 275,411 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Blaise Cendrars is the 1,253rd most popular writer (down from 1,155th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 110th in 2019) and the 13th 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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Among writers, Blaise Cendrars ranks 1,253 out of 5,755. Before him are Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, Georgi Markov, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Arnold Zweig, Régis Debray, and B. K. S. Iyengar. After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Antoine de Montchrestien, Hugo Gernsback, Odo of Cluny, Rudolf Erich Raspe, and Lu Yu.
1426 - 1487
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 1,247
1929 - 1978
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 1,248
1893 - 1945
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 1,249
1887 - 1968
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,250
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,251
1918 - 2014
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,252
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 1,253
1908 - 1942
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,254
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 1,255
1884 - 1967
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,256
878 - 942
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,257
1736 - 1794
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 1,258
733 - 804
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1,259
Among people born in 1887, Blaise Cendrars ranks 66. Before him are Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Paul Wittgenstein, Conrad Hilton, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Arnold Zweig. After him are Savielly Tartakower, Raoul Walsh, Jack Phillips, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Hugo Steinhaus, and René Spitz. Among people deceased in 1961, Blaise Cendrars ranks 29. Before him are Eero Saarinen, Luigi Einaudi, Akiba Rubinstein, Wolfgang von Trips, Paul Wittgenstein, and Lee de Forest. After him are Arthur Drewry, Karl Korsch, Mukhtar Auezov, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Maria Valtorta, and Margherita Sarfatti.
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 60
1887 - 1965
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 61
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 62
1887 - 1979
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 63
1887 - 1957
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 64
1887 - 1968
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 65
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 66
1887 - 1956
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 67
1887 - 1980
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 68
1887 - 1912
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 69
1887 - 1947
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 70
1887 - 1972
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 71
1887 - 1974
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 72
1910 - 1961
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 23
1874 - 1961
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 24
1880 - 1961
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 25
1928 - 1961
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 26
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 27
1873 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 28
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 29
1891 - 1961
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 30
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 31
1897 - 1961
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 32
1878 - 1961
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 33
1897 - 1961
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 34
1880 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 35
Among people born in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars ranks 125 out of 876. Before him are Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Mario Adorf (1930), Matthäus Merian (1593), Carla Del Ponte (1947), and Marthe Keller (1945). After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Ernest Bloch (1880), Frank Martin (1890), and Guy Parmelin (1959).
1812 - 1871
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 119
1435 - 1495
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 120
1930 - Present
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 121
1593 - 1650
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 122
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 123
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 124
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 125
1908 - 1942
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 126
1773 - 1842
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 127
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 128
1880 - 1959
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 129
1890 - 1974
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 130
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 131
Among writers born in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars ranks 13. Before him are Max Frisch (1911), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), and Gottfried Keller (1819). After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Notker the Stammerer (840).
1911 - 1991
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 7
1784 - 1817
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 8
1904 - 1980
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 9
1741 - 1801
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 10
1905 - 1988
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 11
1819 - 1890
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 12
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 13
1908 - 1942
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 14
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 15
1779 - 1869
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 16
1892 - 1938
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 17
1799 - 1846
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 18
840 - 912
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 19