WRITER

Edmond Jabès

1912 - 1991

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Edmond Jabès (French: [ʒabɛs]; Arabic: إدمون جابيس; Cairo, April 14, 1912 – Paris, January 2, 1991) was a French writer and poet of Egyptian origin, and one of the best known literary figures writing in French after World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Jabès has received more than 79,145 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Edmond Jabès is the 1,844th most popular writer (up from 1,906th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 294th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

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Notable Works

Récit
1982
Le livre des questions
1963
The book of questions
Literary Criticism
1976
Le seuil
1990
L' Enfer de Dante
Suffering
1992
Les Deux Livres
1995
Le livre des questions
1963
The book of questions
Translations into English, Philosophy, examinations, questions, etc., Fiction, general
a post modern philosophical poetical reflections - intriguing and at times profound at times confusing -
1976
Le Livre des Questions
French literature
1963
The book of resemblances
1990
The book of questions
Jewish philosophy, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1973
Le seuil
French literature, French poetry
1990

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edmond Jabès ranks 1,844 out of 7,302. Before him are Herodas, Pierre Lemaitre, Fulcanelli, May Ziade, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Feng Menglong. After him are Hipponax, Paul Gerhardt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caecilius Statius, Thomas Keneally, and Mustafa Balel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Edmond Jabès ranks 105. Before him are Samuel Fuller, Jean Améry, Igor Markevitch, Yuen Siu-tien, Fritz Fischer, and Khertek Anchimaa-Toka. After him are Hasan Salama, Perry Como, Charles Addams, Kim Sung-gan, Isidro Lángara, and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov. Among people deceased in 1991, Edmond Jabès ranks 74. Before him are Vilém Flusser, Sergey Akhromeyev, Giacomo Manzù, Héctor Rial, María Zambrano, and Willi Boskovsky. After him are Pedro Arrupe, Rudolf Serkin, Cassandra Harris, Carmine Coppola, Yevgeny Dragunov, and Berenice Abbott.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Edmond Jabès ranks 299 out of 642. Before him are Saad el-Shazly (1922), Alexander II Zabinas (-190), Hesychius of Alexandria (500), Neferneferure (-1400), Herodas (-300), and Berenice (-300). After him are Nikare (-2200), Osorkon III (-900), Julius Pollux (200), Qasim Amin (1863), Sameera Moussa (1917), and Djedefhor (-2600).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Edmond Jabès ranks 21. Before him are Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Achilles Tatius (200), Ahmed Shawqi (1868), Ibn al-Farid (1181), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), and Herodas (-300). After him are Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Anastasius Sinaita (630), Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), and Albert Cossery (1913).

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