WRITER

François Nourissier

1927 - 2011

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François Nourissier (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa nuʁisje]; Paris, 18 May 1927–Paris, 15 February 2011) was a French journalist and writer. Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël (1952–1955), editor of the review La Parisienne (1955–1958), and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house (1958–1996). In 1970, he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Nourissier has received more than 15,944 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. François Nourissier is the 5,959th most popular writer (down from 5,510th in 2019), the 5,005th most popular biography from France (down from 4,616th in 2019) and the 637th most popular French Writer.

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Notable Works

Allemande
1973
Un petit bourgeois
Biography
1963
La crève
1970
Le musée de l'homme
Biography, French Authors
1978
The French
French National characteristics, National characteristics, French, Nationalcharacteristics, French
1968
L' empire des nuages
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, François Nourissier ranks 5,959 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean-Denis Bredin, Árpád Tóth, Giannina Braschi, Josipina Turnograjska, Jeroen Brouwers, and José Jiménez Lozano. After him are James Dickey, Robert J. Sawyer, Hugh Blair, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Quinn, and Lucía Etxebarría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, François Nourissier ranks 408. Before him are Michel Scheuer, Yury Kazakov, Dorothy Manley, Alvin Sargent, Rolf Landauer, and Carmen Zapata. After him are Chris Connor, Kees Broekman, Tibor Csík, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, and W. S. Merwin. Among people deceased in 2011, François Nourissier ranks 396. Before him are Ingrid Sandahl, Yozhef Betsa, Lennart Magnusson, Chen Muhua, G. D. Spradlin, and Paul Motian. After him are Noemí Simonetto de Portela, Jean Dutourd, Ryan Dunn, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Ragnar Lundberg, and Jaime Salazar.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Nourissier ranks 5,005 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Bonnevie (1921), Jean-François Domergue (1957), Pierre Morel (1964), François Gagnepain (1866), Jean-Denis Bredin (1929), and Léo Lacroix (1937). After him are Louis Hostin (1908), Gaël Clichy (1985), Christian Wolff (1934), Jacques Pollet (1922), Allan Saint-Maximin (1997), and Noël Liétaer (1908).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François Nourissier ranks 637. Before him are Lydie Salvayre (1948), Samuel Benchetrit (1973), René Boylesve (1867), Philippe Delerm (1950), Claude Esteban (1935), and Jean-Denis Bredin (1929). After him are Jean Dutourd (1920), Charles Le Goffic (1863), René Benjamin (1885), Danièle Sallenave (1940), Cyril Collard (1957), and Jean Rouaud (1952).

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