WRITER

Julien Gracq

1910 - 2007

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Julien Gracq (French: [gʁak]; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French département of Maine-et-Loire) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julien Gracq has received more than 114,065 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Julien Gracq is the 2,014th most popular writer (down from 1,885th in 2019), the 2,271st most popular biography from France (down from 2,119th in 2019) and the 286th most popular French Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julien Gracq ranks 2,014 out of 7,302. Before him are Izabela Czartoryska, S. Ansky, Christopher Isherwood, Yuan Zhen, Rudolf Rocker, and Telesilla. After him are Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Matthieu Ricard, Sophron, Richard Brautigan, Tanya Savicheva, and Mariano José de Larra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Julien Gracq ranks 98. Before him are Carmine Coppola, Viktors Arājs, Joan Bennett, Sylvester Stadler, Paul Bowles, and Yusof Ishak. After him are Enrique Guaita, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ngô Đình Nhu, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Maria Cebotari, and Heinz Hoffmann. Among people deceased in 2007, Julien Gracq ranks 109. Before him are Luigi Comencini, Steve Fossett, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Mikhail Ulyanov, Guy de Rothschild, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz. After him are Wally Schirra, Henri Debehogne, Barry Nelson, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, and Raul Hilberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Julien Gracq ranks 2,271 out of 6,770. Before him are Madeleine Béjart (1615), Germain of Paris (496), René Caillié (1799), Joséphin Péladan (1858), Yann Tiersen (1970), and Bernard Collomb (1930). After him are Roland Petit (1924), Matthieu Ricard (1946), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Guy Marchand (1937), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), and Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Julien Gracq ranks 286. Before him are Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Jacques Amyot (1513), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746). After him are Matthieu Ricard (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), François Hotman (1524), Catherine Breillat (1948), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), and Yasmina Reza (1959).

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