WRITER

Jules Supervielle

1884 - 1960

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Jules Supervielle (16 January 1884 – 17 May 1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet and writer born in Montevideo. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.He opposed the surrealism movement in poetry and rejected automatic writing, although he did adopt other techniques of modern poetry. In so doing he anticipated the literary movements of the late 1940s, including the work of such authors as René Char, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse or Francis Ponge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Supervielle has received more than 53,386 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jules Supervielle is the 2,644th most popular writer (up from 2,682nd in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 56th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Uruguayan Writer.

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  • 53.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Gravitations
French poetry
1925
L' enfant de la haute mer
1931
La belle au bois
1932
Le Forçat innocent
1930
Jules Supervielle
1949
Le Voleur d'enfants
1926

Page views of Jules Supervielles by language

Over the past year Jules Supervielle has had the most page views in the with 28,720 views, followed by English (5,885), and Spanish (4,628). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (582.76%), Finnish (163.40%), and Basque (93.24%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Supervielle ranks 2,644 out of 7,302. Before him are Asadi Tusi, Richard Bandler, Mary Astell, Duris of Samos, Jean Ray, and Elio Vittorini. After him are Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jules Guesde, Olga Rozanova, Tom Sharpe, John Cheever, and Jean Rhys.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Jules Supervielle ranks 88. Before him are George Sarton, Philipp Frank, Tanzan Ishibashi, Axel Ljung, Gerald Gardner, and Phraya Manopakorn Nititada. After him are James Alberione, Claude Auchinleck, Wilhelm Brückner, Johannes Popitz, Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, and Enrico Dante. Among people deceased in 1960, Jules Supervielle ranks 82. Before him are Richard Wright, John B. Kelly Sr., Erwin Jaenecke, Nima Yooshij, Leó Weiner, and Alan Stacey. After him are Dirk Jan de Geer, Leo Spitzer, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria, Ayşe Sultan, and Adone Zoli.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Jules Supervielle ranks 58 out of 444. Before him are José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856), Ángel Romano (1894), Michele Andreolo (1912), George Hilton (1934), Juan López Fontana (1908), and Schubert Gambetta (1920). After him are Diego Godín (1986), Lucía Topolansky (1944), Gustavo Rojo (1923), Joaquín Torres-García (1874), Eusebio Tejera (1922), and Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Jules Supervielle ranks 7. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont (1846), Eduardo Galeano (1940), Mario Benedetti (1920), Jules Laforgue (1860), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), and Horacio Quiroga (1878). After him are Delmira Agustini (1886), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), Ida Vitale (1923), José Enrique Rodó (1871), and Felisberto Hernández (1902).

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