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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 630,764 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hélène Cixous is the 1,189th most popular writer (up from 1,532nd in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Algerian Writer.

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  • 630k

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  • 59.62

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hélène Cixous ranks 1,189 out of 5,755Before her are Edith Södergran, Thomas De Quincey, Gottfried Keller, Henri Murger, Herrad of Landsberg, and John Dickson Carr. After her are Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Paul Bourget, Roger Caillois, Gabriele Amorth, and Claudio Magris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Hélène Cixous ranks 63Before her are Robin Warren, Lionel Jospin, George Carlin, Sigmund Jähn, Tamara Bunke, and Karel Schwarzenberg. After her are Vladimir Arnold, George Takei, Mario Capecchi, Angelo Badalamenti, Valentin Pavlov, and Robert B. Wilson.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Hélène Cixous ranks 38 out of 184Before her are Abd al-Mu'min (1094), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), Chadli Bendjedid (1929), Assia Djebar (1936), and Jean-Claude Brialy (1933). After her are Micipsa (-200), Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856), Marcus Cornelius Fronto (100), Enrico Macias (1938), Priscian (500), and Mohamed Boudiaf (1919).

Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Hélène Cixous ranks 7Before her are Albert Camus (1913), Apuleius (125), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), and Assia Djebar (1936). After her are Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), and Ibn Manzur (1233).