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Joseph Kessel

1898 - 1979

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Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Kessel has received more than 222,896 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joseph Kessel is the 2,002nd most popular writer (up from 2,032nd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 114th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Argentinean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le Lion
1958
Le coup de gra ce
1951
Le lion
French language, Readers
1958
Belle de jour
French fiction
1928
L' équipage
French language
1924

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Kessel ranks 2,002 out of 7,302. Before him are Yehuda Amichai, Nicolás Guillén, Countess of Ségur, Jorge Manrique, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Mohamed Choukri. After him are Eugène Marin Labiche, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Horacio Quiroga, Saki, Caterina Albert, and Izabela Czartoryska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Joseph Kessel ranks 91. Before him are Berenice Abbott, Michel de Ghelderode, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Hans Globke, Grace Moore, and Randolph Scott. After him are Lionel Robbins, Achille Van Acker, Karl Mauss, Jacob Tullin Thams, Elazar Shach, and Jean Fautrier. Among people deceased in 1979, Joseph Kessel ranks 78. Before him are Gio Ponti, Carlo Abarth, Yvonne de Gaulle, Victoria Ocampo, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Darryl F. Zanuck. After him are Henrich Focke, Waldemar de Brito, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Walther Gerlach, Teruo Nakamura, and Merle Oberon.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Joseph Kessel ranks 124 out of 1,154. Before him are Héctor Babenco (1946), Sergio Goycochea (1963), Amadeo Carrizo (1926), Ángel Di María (1988), Gabriela Sabatini (1970), and Javier Saviola (1981). After him are Luis Bacalov (1933), Attilio Demaría (1909), Justo José de Urquiza (1801), Enrique Guaita (1910), Arturo Umberto Illia (1900), and Alfio Basile (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Joseph Kessel ranks 9. Before him are Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), and Victoria Ocampo (1890). After him are Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), María Kodama (1937), Jorge Bucay (1949), Juan Gelman (1930), and Ricardo Piglia (1941).

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