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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 74,426 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Edmond Jabès is the 1,912th most popular writer (up from 1,929th in 2019), the 295th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 289th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 74k

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  • 55.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edmond Jabès ranks 1,912 out of 5,755. Before him are Sister Nivedita, Denis Fonvizin, Ahmad ibn Arabshah, A. B. Yehoshua, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark. After him are Vita Sackville-West, Dora d'Istria, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Kaj Munk, and Desanka Maksimović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Edmond Jabès ranks 108. Before him are Fritz Fischer, Barbara Hutton, Gordon Gollob, Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, and Jean Françaix. After him are Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Marcel Camus, Joachim Schepke, Nancy Wake, Kaneto Shindo, and Domingos da Guia. Among people deceased in 1991, Edmond Jabès ranks 74. Before him are Joachim Kroll, Brad Davis, Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, Pedro Arrupe, and Berenice Abbott. After him are Rudolf Serkin, Edwin H. Land, Héctor Rial, Ernst Krenek, Carmine Coppola, and Cassandra Harris.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Edmond Jabès ranks 295 out of 582. Before him are Ammonius Hermiae (440), John Tristan, Count of Valois (1250), Djedefhor (-2600), Ibn al-Farid (1181), Ali az-Zahir (1005), and Olympiodorus the Younger (495). After him are Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (832), Sufi Abu Taleb (1925), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Ahmed Shafik (1941), Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (1929), and Pope Anianus of Alexandria (100).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Edmond Jabès ranks 21. Before him are Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), Ahmed Shawqi (1868), Herodas (-300), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), and Ibn al-Farid (1181). After him are Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Anastasius Sinaita (630), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), André Aciman (1951), and Olympiodorus of Thebes (301).

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