WRITER

Georges Perec

1936 - 1982

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Georges Perec (French: [ʒɔʁʒ peʁɛk]; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Perec has received more than 710,747 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Georges Perec is the 561st most popular writer (up from 652nd in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from France (up from 766th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Writer.

Georges Perec is most famous for his novel Life A User's Manual, in which he uses a variety of writing techniques to tell the story of a Parisian apartment building.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La Disparition
1969
Un homme qui dort
1967
La vie, mode d'emploi
1978
53 jours
French fiction
1989
Les choses
1965
W, ou, Le souvenir d'enfance
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georges Perec ranks 561 out of 7,302. Before him are W. Somerset Maugham, Francisco de Quevedo, Mikael Agricola, George Eliot, Dino Buzzati, and Ivan Bunin. After him are Ausonius, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sidney Sheldon, A. A. Milne, Faxian, and Romain Gary.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Georges Perec ranks 31. Before him are Zubin Mehta, Virna Lisi, David Carradine, Michael Landon, Ferid Murad, and Richard Bach. After him are Roy Orbison, Aga Khan IV, Glen Campbell, Tariq Aziz, Robert Woodrow Wilson, and Jim Clark. Among people deceased in 1982, Georges Perec ranks 25. Before him are Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Gala Dalí, Jacques Tati, Barack Obama Sr., Karl von Frisch, and Glenn Gould. After him are Hugh Everett III, John Belushi, Hugo Theorell, Gilles Villeneuve, Jiro Horikoshi, and William Giauque.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Perec ranks 650 out of 6,770. Before him are François Guizot (1787), Louis Blériot (1872), Maurice Chevalier (1888), Hugh the Great (898), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), and Ansgar (801). After him are Ausonius (310), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), Pérotin (1160), Marin Marais (1656), Simone Veil (1927), and Paul Mauriat (1925).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Georges Perec ranks 99. Before him are Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Paul Claudel (1868), Gaston Leroux (1868), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), and W. Somerset Maugham (1874). After him are Ausonius (310), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Pierre Loti (1850), and Madame Roland (1754).

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