WRITER

Jean Amrouche

1906 - 1962

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Jean el Mouhouv Amrouche (7 February 1906 in Ighil Ali, Algeria – 16 April 1962 in Paris, France) was an Algerian francophone writer, poet and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Amrouche has received more than 29,114 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean Amrouche is the 5,152nd most popular writer (up from 5,194th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 123rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Algerian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Journal
Algerian Poets, Diaries
2009
Les écrivains à la radio
French literature, Interviews, French Authors
2000
Cendres
Algerian literature (French)
1983
Chants berbères de Kabylie
1947
Sous le feu la cendre
2012
Un Algérien s'adresse aux Français, ou, L'histoire d'Algérie par les textes
History
1994

Page views of Jean Amrouches by language

Over the past year Jean Amrouche has had the most page views in the with 24,261 views, followed by Arabic (4,822), and English (3,718). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (130.53%), Egyptian Arabic (115.57%), and Arabic (88.14%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Amrouche ranks 5,152 out of 7,302. Before him are Henri Béraud, Alexander Vostokov, Eve Ensler, Adolf Muschg, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, and Marceline Loridan-Ivens. After him are Kenjirō Tokutomi, Dagny Carlsson, Sufia Kamal, Vera Henriksen, Ismat Chughtai, and Pieter Jelles Troelstra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jean Amrouche ranks 305. Before him are Benedicto de Moraes Menezes, Alexander Kazantsev, Ferit Melen, Alberto Zorrilla, Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, and Rafaela Aparicio. After him are Ödön Zombori, Albrecht Becker, Milorad Arsenijević, Márcio Melo, Betty Bronson, and Ludwig Stubbendorf. Among people deceased in 1962, Jean Amrouche ranks 171. Before him are Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Mykolas Biržiška, Menen Asfaw, Zdeněk Nejedlý, Erik Granfelt, and Axel Nordlander. After him are Benny Paret, Nikolai Pogodin, Philippe Cattiau, William Clothier, Władysław Broniewski, and Georgina de Albuquerque.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Jean Amrouche ranks 129 out of 213. Before him are Emmanuel Roblès (1914), Abdelmalek Benhabyles (1921), Françoise Dürr (1942), Smail Hamdani (1930), Noureddine Morceli (1970), and Ali Bencheikh (1955). After him are Cheb Hasni (1968), Salah Assad (1958), Anne Alvaro (1951), Tahar Djaout (1954), Christian Lopez (1953), and Georges Lamia (1933).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Jean Amrouche ranks 18. Before him are Mouloud Feraoun (1913), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), Mouloud Mammeri (1917), Yasmina Khadra (1955), Boualem Sansal (1949), and Emmanuel Roblès (1914). After him are Tahar Djaout (1954), and Jules Roy (1907).

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