WRITER

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 378,156 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Jean-Claude Carrière is the 1,028th most popular writer (down from 962nd in 2019), the 1,164th most popular biography from France (down from 1,122nd in 2019) and the 153rd most popular French Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 1,028 out of 7,302. Before him are Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Guido Cavalcanti, Persius, Hrotsvitha, Marguerite Porete, and Benito Pérez Galdós. After him are P. D. James, Charles De Coster, B. H. Liddell Hart, Johanna Schopenhauer, Marshall Rosenberg, and Sam Shepard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 67. Before him are Syukuro Manabe, Ivan Rebroff, Arata Isozaki, Richard F. Heck, Ike Turner, and Rita Moreno. After him are Hamilton O. Smith, Ronald Dworkin, Alfred Brendel, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Caterina Valente, and Antonella Lualdi. Among people deceased in 2021, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 56. Before him are Ei-ichi Negishi, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Betty White, George Jung, Noah Gordon, and Giampiero Boniperti. After him are Toshihide Maskawa, E. O. Wilson, Abimael Guzmán, Michel Fourniret, Larry King, and Richard Donner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 1,164 out of 6,770. Before him are Henry I of Navarre (1244), Theuderic II (587), André Weil (1906), Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746), Balthus (1908), and Jan Gossaert (1478). After him are Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paul Sérusier (1864), Sigebert II (602), and Maurice Duverger (1917).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Claude Carrière ranks 153. Before him are Jean de Joinville (1224), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Bertran de Born (1140), Jean Giraudoux (1882), and André Bazin (1918). After him are B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paulinus of Nola (354), Marcel Pagnol (1895), Michel Tournier (1924), Paul Bourget (1852), and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838).

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