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Jean-Claude Carrière

1931 - 2021

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Jean-Claude Carrière (French: [ka.ʁjɛʁ]; 17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Claude Carrière has received more than 353,441 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jean-Claude Carrière is the 963rd most popular writer (up from 1,263rd in 2019), the 1,125th most popular biography from France (up from 1,409th in 2019) and the 148th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 963 out of 5,755Before him are Juan Antonio Villacañas, E. M. Forster, Garcilaso de la Vega, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Sugawara no Michizane, and Richard Matheson. After him are Edogawa Ranpo, Gnaeus Naevius, Stephen Crane, James Brendan Connolly, Donna Leon, and Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 64Before him are Riccardo Giacconi, Ivan Rebroff, Burton Richter, Arata Isozaki, Viktor Korchnoi, and Alfred Brendel. After him are Klaus Hasselmann, Don King, Clive Cussler, Charles Taylor, Rita Moreno, and Sam Cooke. Among people deceased in 2021, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 70Before him are Noah Gordon, Dean Stockwell, Pat Hitchcock, Norodom Ranariddh, Kåre Willoch, and Bernard Tapie. After him are Hal Holbrook, Giampiero Boniperti, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Nelson Freire, Richard Donner, and Ei-ichi Negishi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 1,125 out of 6,011Before him are Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (1814), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Claude Perrault (1613), Isabella of Hainault (1170), Marine Le Pen (1968), and Bernard Tapie (1943). After him are Aimery of Cyprus (1172), Odile of Alsace (662), Theudebert II (585), Pierre Lescot (1515), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Fromental Halévy (1799).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 148Before him are André Bazin (1918), Jules Renard (1864), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), Charles Nodier (1780), and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737). After him are Paulinus of Nola (354), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Johannes Tauler (1300), Comtessa de Dia (1175), and Julien Green (1900).