WRITER

Felix Timmermans

1886 - 1947

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Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is a much translated author from Flanders. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Timmermans has received more than 55,992 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Timmermans is the 3,648th most popular writer (down from 2,991st in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 395th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Belgian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 56k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Pallieter
Het vrolijke bestaan van een levenslustige Vlaamse boerenjongen.
1900
Adagio
1982
Het kindeken Jezus in Vlaanderen
1920
The perfect joy of St. Francis
1952
Das Triptychon von den Heiligen Drei Königen
1932

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Felix Timmermans ranks 3,648 out of 7,302. Before him are Eiko Kadono, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Lillian Hellman, Siegfried Sassoon, Ghada al-Samman, and John Ashbery. After him are Driss Chraïbi, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Samih al-Qasim, Otfrid of Weissenburg, Farrukhi Sistani, and Ilya Ilf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Felix Timmermans ranks 178. Before him are Hiratsuka Raichō, Ernest Burgess, Grigory Neujmin, Othmar Schoeck, Aloïse Corbaz, and Siegfried Sassoon. After him are Franz Josef Popp, Austin Osman Spare, Lucien Gaudin, Hidetsugu Yagi, George Cœdès, and Chester Conklin. Among people deceased in 1947, Felix Timmermans ranks 127. Before him are Maxwell Perkins, Marc Mitscher, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Giuseppe Volpi, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller. After him are Emil Racoviță, Siegfried Kasche, Frances Cleveland, Elisabeth von Gutmann, Leevi Madetoja, and Martin Mutschmann.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Felix Timmermans ranks 494 out of 1,190. Before him are Jean Van Hamme (1939), Marie Popelin (1846), Peter Benoit (1834), Sophie Wilmès (1975), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), and Marouane Fellaini (1987). After him are Tony Parker (1982), Andrei Kozyrev (1951), Vincent Kompany (1986), Jan Decleir (1946), Robert Waseige (1939), and Reginar IV, Count of Mons (950).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Felix Timmermans ranks 27. Before him are Amélie Nothomb (1967), Jean Ray (1887), Daniël Heinsius (1580), Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), Jan Gruter (1560), and Caspar Barlaeus (1584). After him are Simon Leys (1935), Georges Eekhoud (1854), Camille Lemonnier (1844), Louis Paul Boon (1912), Félicien Marceau (1913), and Willem Elsschot (1882).

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