WRITER

Jacques Chessex

1934 - 2009

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Jacques Chessex (Payerne, 1 March 1934 – Yverdon-les-Bains, 9 October 2009) was a literal who author and painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Chessex has received more than 33,155 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Chessex is the 5,081st most popular writer, the 528th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 46th most popular Swiss Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les saintes écritures
History and criticism, Swiss literature (French), Swiss poetry (French)
1972
Portrait des Vaudois
1969
Feux d'orée
1984
Carabas
1971
Reste avec nous
1967
La trinité
1992

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Chessex ranks 5,081 out of 7,302. Before him are Mark Dvoretsky, Ghazaros Aghayan, Leslie Charteris, Marin Preda, Olive Schreiner, and Júlia Szendrey. After him are Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Amitav Ghosh, Alfhild Agrell, Max Beerbohm, William Davenant, and Riichi Yokomitsu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jacques Chessex ranks 381. Before him are Tom Heinsohn, Jim Hutton, Chuck McCann, Jef Planckaert, Mikio Aoki, and Harrison Birtwistle. After him are Phạm Minh Mẫn, Luis Maidana, Michael May, Joyce Van Patten, Ray Wilson, and Gilbert Strang. Among people deceased in 2009, Jacques Chessex ranks 262. Before him are Héctor Facundo, Harve Presnell, Mary Travers, Roger Planchon, Jan Kaplický, and Sergei Magnitsky. After him are Godfrey Rampling, Norbert Eschmann, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Daniel Jarque, Francisco Valdés, and Kazuhiko Nishijima.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Chessex ranks 528 out of 1,015. Before him are Hoyte van Hoytema (1971), Heinrich Zollinger (1818), Ludwig von Moos (1910), Rudolf Gnägi (1917), Béatrix Beck (1914), and Pipilotti Rist (1962). After him are Bibi Torriani (1911), Kubilay Türkyilmaz (1967), Paul Scherrer (1890), Urs Widmer (1938), Adolf Muschg (1934), and Denise Biellmann (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Jacques Chessex ranks 46. Before him are Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Johann David Wyss (1743), Alain de Botton (1969), Martin Suter (1948), Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701), and Béatrix Beck (1914). After him are Urs Widmer (1938), Adolf Muschg (1934), Joël Dicker (1985), Christian Kracht (1966), Alphonse Matejka (1902), and Kurt Marti (1921).

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