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Henri Michaux

1899 - 1984

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Henri Michaux (French: [miʃo]; 24 May 1899, Namur – 19 October 1984, Paris) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had major shows of his work in 1978 (see below, Visual Arts). His texts chronicling his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline, which include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones, are well known. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Michaux has received more than 210,587 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Henri Michaux is the 1,089th most popular writer (up from 1,132nd in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 144th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belgian Writer.

Henri Michaux is most famous for his surrealist writings.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henri Michaux ranks 1,089 out of 5,755Before him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Patrick White, Vidyapati, Joost van den Vondel, and Radegund. After him are Allan Pinkerton, Mimnermus, Jean Giraudoux, Jan Neruda, Andrei Bely, and Thomas Chatterton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Henri Michaux ranks 49Before him are Ludwig Guttmann, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Louis Chiron, Sobhuza II, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Lev Kuleshov. After him are Lao She, Macfarlane Burnet, Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Boyer, Georges Auric, and P. L. Travers. Among people deceased in 1984, Henri Michaux ranks 37Before him are Vicente Aleixandre, Stanislaw Ulam, Karl Rahner, Jackie Coogan, Irwin Shaw, and Moshé Feldenkrais. After him are Oskar Werner, Joseph Losey, Tito Gobbi, Brassaï, Janet Gaynor, and James Mason.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Henri Michaux ranks 143 out of 1,019Before him are Marc Dutroux (1956), Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (1254), Lara Fabian (1970), Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne (1735), Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330), and Chantal Mouffe (1943). After him are Fernand Khnopff (1858), Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872), Toots Thielemans (1922), Henry I, Duke of Brabant (1165), Theroigne de Mericourt (1762), and Eric Walter Elst (1936).

Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Henri Michaux ranks 8Before him are Georges Simenon (1903), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Julio Cortázar (1914), Émile Verhaeren (1855), Marguerite Porete (1250), and Pierre Louÿs (1870). After him are Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), Hugo Claus (1929), Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522), and Jean Bolland (1596).