WRITER

Hélène Cixous

1937 - Today

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Hélène Cixous (; French: [siksu]; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes (today's University of Paris VIII), which she co-founded in 1969 and where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélène Cixous has received more than 678,359 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Hélène Cixous is the 1,106th most popular writer (up from 1,187th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 38th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Algerian Writer.

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  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hélène Cixous ranks 1,106 out of 7,302. Before her are John William Polidori, Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, Bhāsa, Bernard Cornwell, and Robert Merle. After her are Claudius Aelianus, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Velimir Khlebnikov, Camilla Collett, Ethel Voynich, and Shi Nai'an.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Hélène Cixous ranks 65. Before her are Lionel Jospin, George Carlin, Song Hye-rim, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Lucas Jr., and Mario Capecchi. After her are Sigmund Jähn, Tony Burton, George Takei, Tamara Press, Cüneyt Arkın, and Valentyn Sylvestrov.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Hélène Cixous ranks 37 out of 213. Before her are Assia Djebar (1936), Edwige Fenech (1948), Chadli Bendjedid (1929), Jacques Attali (1943), Enrico Macias (1938), and Robert Merle (1908). After her are Jean-Claude Brialy (1933), Khaled (1960), Micipsa (-200), Priscian (500), Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856), and Mohamed Boudiaf (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Hélène Cixous ranks 6. Before her are Albert Camus (1913), Apuleius (125), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Assia Djebar (1936), and Robert Merle (1908). After her are Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Al-Busiri (1213), and Mouloud Feraoun (1913).

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