WRITER

Fred Vargas

1957 - Today

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Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 7 June 1957), a French historian, archaeologist and novelist. As a historian and archeologist, she is known for her work on the Black Death. Her crime fiction policiers (police procedurals) have won three International Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers Association, for three successive novels: in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Vargas has received more than 344,776 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Fred Vargas is the 1,975th most popular writer (up from 2,040th in 2019), the 2,231st most popular biography from France (up from 2,300th in 2019) and the 277th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dans les bois éternels
Fiction, Murder, Police
2006
Seeking Whom He May Devour
Mystery, Mystery in fiction, Fiction
2004
The Three Evangelists
2006
Pars vite et reviens tard
Murder, Police, Detective and mystery stories
2001
Debout Les Morts
Fiction, Police, Criminal investigation
1995
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Detectives, Fiction
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fred Vargas ranks 1,975 out of 7,302. Before her are Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Péter Esterházy, Theodorus Gaza, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Gustave Kahn, and Anastasius Sinaita. After her are Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Atsushi Nakajima, Bharavi, Christian Jacq, Étienne Dolet, and Sébastien Japrisot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Fred Vargas ranks 74. Before her are Timothy Spall, Joaquim de Almeida, Wolfgang Ketterle, Janick Gers, Lucien Favre, and Klaus Augenthaler. After her are Antonio Cabrini, Alu Alkhanov, Shigeru Ban, Loreena McKennitt, Monte Melkonian, and Lucélia Santos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Fred Vargas ranks 2,231 out of 6,770. Before her are Peter Nolasco (1180), Louis Couperin (1626), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Gustave Kahn (1859), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), and Joseph Darnand (1897). After her are Christian Jacq (1947), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Étienne Dolet (1509), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Elena Poniatowska (1932), and Léon Brillouin (1889).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Fred Vargas ranks 277. Before her are Bernard Palissy (1510), Thomas Merton (1915), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Hincmar (806), Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), and Gustave Kahn (1859). After her are Christian Jacq (1947), Étienne Dolet (1509), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Jacques Amyot (1513), and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786).

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