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Henri Charrière

1906 - 1973

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Henri Charrière (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ʃaʁjɛʁ]; 16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted of murder in 1931 by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Charrière has received more than 3,375,895 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Henri Charrière is the 363rd most popular writer (down from 203rd in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from France (down from 237th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Writer.

Henri Charrière is most famous for writing the book Papillon, which is about his life in a penal colony in French Guiana.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.30

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henri Charrière ranks 363 out of 5,755. Before him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Susan Sontag, Pär Lagerkvist, Alphonse Daudet, and Anne Brontë. After him are Cyrano de Bergerac, William Wordsworth, Romain Gary, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Roth, and Henry James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Henri Charrière ranks 25. Before him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Emmanuel Levinas, Sayyid Qutb, Ernst Ruska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten. After him are Hermann Fegelein, Giuseppe Farina, Ed Gein, Léon Degrelle, Soichiro Honda, and Hassan al-Banna. Among people deceased in 1973, Henri Charrière ranks 22. Before him are Ludwig von Mises, John Ford, Abebe Bikila, Paavo Nurmi, Max Horkheimer, and Anna Magnani. After him are Pablo Casals, Gabriel Marcel, Ferdinand Schörner, Semyon Budyonny, Víctor Jara, and J. Hans D. Jensen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Charrière ranks 417 out of 6,011. Before him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), André Masséna (1758), Yves Klein (1928), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Philippe Noiret (1930), and Louis Renault (1843). After him are Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Nicolas Appert (1749), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Jean Monnet (1888), Paul Langevin (1872), and Genevieve (423).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Henri Charrière ranks 63. Before him are André Malraux (1901), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Paul Éluard (1895), Jacques Prévert (1900), Jean Genet (1910), and Alphonse Daudet (1840). After him are Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Théophile Gautier (1811), Auguste Escoffier (1847), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), André Maurois (1885), and Hector Malot (1830).

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