WRITER

Jean Bruller

1902 - 1991

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Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller (26 February 1902 – 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father, he joined the Resistance during the World War II occupation of northern France and his texts were published using the pseudonym Vercors (though he used this name for works published before the 1944 Battle of Vercors). Several of his novels have fantasy or science fiction themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Bruller has received more than 80,499 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jean Bruller is the 2,093rd most popular writer (up from 2,295th in 2019), the 2,350th most popular biography from France (up from 2,531st in 2019) and the 297th most popular French Writer.

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  • 80k

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  • 55.87

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les armes de la nuit
1946
Sur ce rivage
1958
Le silence de la mer, et autres récits
1951
La Bataille du silence
1967
Le silence de la mer
1941
Les mots
1947
Les animaux dénaturés
1952

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Bruller ranks 2,093 out of 7,302. Before him are John Grinder, Walter Tevis, James M. Cain, Philippe Sollers, Gaston III, Count of Foix, and Tin Ujević. After him are Yoshida Kenkō, Hamdallah Mustawfi, C. W. Ceram, Constantine Manasses, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, and Anne Golon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Jean Bruller ranks 104. Before him are Nicolás Guillén, William Walton, Samuel Goudsmit, Leopold Figl, Vladimír Clementis, and Albert Forster. After him are Peregrino Anselmo, Ľudovít Fulla, Giorgio Pessina, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Ernst von Salomon, and Josep Lluís Sert. Among people deceased in 1991, Jean Bruller ranks 84. Before him are Carmine Coppola, Yevgeny Dragunov, Berenice Abbott, Joachim Kroll, Daigoro Kondo, and Helmut Walcha. After him are Ernst Krenek, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Kevin Peter Hall, Vasko Popa, Shintaro Abe, and Heidi Brühl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Bruller ranks 2,350 out of 6,770. Before him are Gabriel Hanot (1889), Michel Gondry (1963), Jacques Villon (1875), Philippe Sollers (1936), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498). After him are Bernadette Chirac (1933), Anne Golon (1921), Magdalena of France (1443), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Robert Manzon (1917), and François Coppée (1842).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Bruller ranks 297. Before him are Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Yasmina Reza (1959), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Dominique Venner (1935), Philippe Sollers (1936), and Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331). After him are Anne Golon (1921), François Coppée (1842), Gaston Paris (1839), Maurice Joly (1829), Yvan Goll (1891), and Savitri Devi (1905).

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