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Gabrielle Roy

1909 - 1983

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Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabrielle Roy has received more than 206,036 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gabrielle Roy is the 3,125th most popular writer (up from 3,314th in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 214th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 51.25

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gabrielle Roy ranks 3,125 out of 5,755Before her are Zivia Lubetkin, Maximilian Voloshin, Richard Dehmel, Max Aub, Tōson Shimazaki, and Subhadra Kumari Chauhan. After her are Arnošt Lustig, Holger Drachmann, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Robert de Clari, Cristina Calderón, and Jim Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Gabrielle Roy ranks 160Before her are Hans Hotter, Ashapurna Devi, Leone Ginzburg, Guillermo Gorostiza, Wang Zhen, and Max Aub. After her are Ivan Bek, Léo Malet, Jim Davis, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Margaret Sullavan, and Hans Erni. Among people deceased in 1983, Gabrielle Roy ranks 113Before her are Maurice Bishop, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Fritz Machlup, Earl Hines, Corrie ten Boom, and Manuel Ferreira. After her are Anthony van Hoboken, Juan Carlos Zabala, Herman Kahn, József Takács, Roy Sullivan, and Archduchess Rosa of Austria.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gabrielle Roy ranks 192 out of 1,350Before her are David Johnston (1941), Oliver Platt (1960), René Lévesque (1922), Bret Hart (1957), Alfred Aho (1941), and Ian Hacking (1936). After her are Louis Nirenberg (1925), Barry Pepper (1970), Phil Hartman (1948), Harold Innis (1894), Alanis Morissette (1974), and Paul Haggis (1953).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Gabrielle Roy ranks 11Before her are A. E. van Vogt (1912), Brian Tracy (1944), David Morrell (1943), Shulamith Firestone (1945), David Shore (1959), and Marie-Claire Blais (1939). After her are Naomi Klein (1970), Mordecai Richler (1931), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Anne Hébert (1916), Harold Russell (1914), and Steven Erikson (1959).

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