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Frankétienne

1936 - 2025

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Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [fɣãŋ.ket.jɛ̃n]; 12 April 1936 – 20 February 2025), known by his pen name Frankétienne, was a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, and painter. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights in both French and Haitian Creole, and is "known as the father of Haitian letters". He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Order of the Arts and Letters), and was named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frankétienne has received more than 125,248 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frankétienne is the 3,984th most popular writer (up from 4,115th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Haitian Writer.

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  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frankétienne ranks 3,984 out of 7,302. Before her are Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Irena Veisaitė, Simonas Daukantas, Emmy Hennings, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, and Lady Ise. After her are Yuriy Venelin, Wilferd Madelung, Joan Lindsay, Matilde Serao, Maxwell Anderson, and Ralph Ellison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Frankétienne ranks 297. Before her are Stephen E. Ambrose, Nutan, Frederick Ballantyne, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Abraham Lempel, and Troy Donahue. After her are Igor Rodionov, Héctor Núñez, Eva Hesse, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Robert Langlands, and Zdeněk Mácal. Among people deceased in 2025, Frankétienne ranks 33. Before her are Eva Klein, David Vunagi, Robert Hübner, Renato Corsetti, Fabio Cudicini, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat. After her are Eleonora Giorgi, Jeannot Szwarc, James Harrison, Fred Stolle, Souleymane Cissé, and Mimis Domazos.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Frankétienne ranks 30 out of 94. Before her are Henri Namphy (1932), Charles Rivière-Hérard (1789), Paul Magloire (1907), Dumarsais Estimé (1900), Michel Martelly (1961), and Ertha Pascal-Trouillot (1943). After her are Fabre Geffrard (1806), Sténio Vincent (1874), René Depestre (1926), Jacques Roumain (1907), Élie Lescot (1883), and Gérard Latortue (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Haiti

Among writers born in Haiti, Frankétienne ranks 1. After her are René Depestre (1926), Jacques Roumain (1907), Dany Laferrière (1953), and Edwidge Danticat (1969).

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