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Frantz Fanon

1925 - 1961

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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Francophone Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of independence from France and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frantz Fanon has received more than 3,398,711 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Frantz Fanon is the 545th most popular writer (down from 438th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Martinique and the most popular Writer.

Frantz Fanon is most famous for his book, "The Wretched of the Earth." In it, he argues that violence is necessary for the liberation of colonized people.

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  • 5.26

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Notable Works

Damnés de la terre
1963
Peau noire, masques blancs
1952
Pour la révolution africaine
1964
A dying colonialism
1965
Les damnés de la terre
1961
Les damne s de la terre
1970

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Over the past year Frantz Fanon has had the most page views in the with 514,159 views, followed by French (155,945), and Portuguese (57,004). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (71.68%), Mazandarani (66.71%), and Bengali (63.88%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frantz Fanon ranks 545 out of 7,302. Before him are T. S. Eliot, Bai Juyi, Gaston Leroux, Saint Naum, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Eugenio Montale. After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Gustav Meyrink, Georg Trakl, Patrick Süskind, Mo Yan, and Robert Burns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Frantz Fanon ranks 33. Before him are Douglas Engelbart, Angela Lansbury, Ananda Mahidol, Nílton Santos, Gabriele Amorth, and Simon van der Meer. After him are Ernst Happel, Paul Mauriat, Peter Brook, Oona O'Neill, Pierre Boulez, and Bert Hellinger. Among people deceased in 1961, Frantz Fanon ranks 16. Before him are Jules Bordet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mohammed V of Morocco, Rafael Trujillo, Otto Loewi, and Adnan Menderes. After him are Zog I of Albania, Paul Landowski, Kurt Meyer, Luigi Einaudi, Dashiell Hammett, and Maria of Yugoslavia.

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In Martinique

Among people born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon ranks 2 out of 26. Before him are Alexandre de Beauharnais (1760). After him are Aimé Césaire (1913), Édouard Glissant (1928), Karine Jean-Pierre (1974), Gérard Janvion (1953), René Maran (1887), Patrick Chamoiseau (1953), Euzhan Palcy (1958), Wendie Renard (1990), Allen Chastanet (1960), and Joël Abati (1970).

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Among WRITERS In Martinique

Among writers born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon ranks 1. After him are Aimé Césaire (1913), Édouard Glissant (1928), René Maran (1887), and Patrick Chamoiseau (1953).

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