WRITER

François Mauriac

1885 - 1970

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François Charles Mauriac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Mauriac has received more than 411,255 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). François Mauriac is the 254th most popular writer (up from 317th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from France (up from 369th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Writer.

François Mauriac is most famous for his novels, including the novel Thérèse Desqueyroux, which was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1926.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

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  • 71.20

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  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

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Notable Works

Le désert de l'amour
1925
Genitrix
1923
La fin de la nuit
1935
Le mystère Frontenac
1933
Le noeud de vipères
1932
Thérèse Desqueyroux
1927
La fin de la nuit
1935
Le noeud de vipères
French fiction
1932
Thérèse Desqueyroux
French language, Mauriac, François, 1885-1970. Thérèse Desqueyroux, Readers
1927
La pharisienne
French fiction
1941
Genitrix
French language materials
1923
Le désert de l'amour
French language, Readers
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, François Mauriac ranks 254 out of 7,302. Before him are Germaine de Staël, Valmiki, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Peter Handke, Kālidāsa, and Nelly Sachs. After him are Anna Akhmatova, Shota Rustaveli, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sallust, and Johannes V. Jensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, François Mauriac ranks 3. Before him are Niels Bohr, and Karen Blixen. After him are György Lukács, Alban Berg, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, Umberto Nobile, Ezra Pound, Hermann Hoth, Karen Horney, and Julius Streicher. Among people deceased in 1970, François Mauriac ranks 15. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Max Born, Sukarno, Alexander Kerensky, Mark Rothko, and Nelly Sachs. After him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Édouard Daladier, Paul Celan, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and Rudolf Carnap.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Mauriac ranks 301 out of 6,770. Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Germaine de Staël (1766), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), and Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635). After him are Jacques de Molay (1243), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), John I of France (1316), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), and René Goscinny (1926).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François Mauriac ranks 47. Before him are Maurice Leblanc (1864), Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Germaine de Staël (1766). After him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Paul Valéry (1871), Colette (1873), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732).

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