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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 103,544 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Julien Gracq is the 1,890th most popular writer (up from 1,909th in 2019), the 2,126th most popular biography from France (down from 2,092nd in 2019) and the 266th most popular French Writer.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julien Gracq ranks 1,890 out of 5,755Before him are Zinaida Gippius, Pierre Klossowski, Caterina Albert, George Adamski, Fernando de Rojas, and Baba Tahir. After him are Avraham Stern, Caecilius Statius, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Philippe Quinault, Kathy Reichs, and Albert Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Julien Gracq ranks 83Before him are Paul Bowles, He Zizhen, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Ferdinand Daučík, Louis Slotin, and Masayoshi Ōhira. After him are Maria Cebotari, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Kim Il, Dorothea Tanning, Joy Adamson, and Jack Hawkins. Among people deceased in 2007, Julien Gracq ranks 102Before him are Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Atle Selberg, Luigi Comencini, Karel Svoboda, Ralph Asher Alpher, and Pierre Messmer. After him are Paul Cohen, Wally Schirra, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Mika Špiljak, Steve Fossett, and Mikhail Ulyanov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Julien Gracq ranks 2,126 out of 6,011Before him are Augustin Barruel (1741), Pierre Messmer (1916), Charles Cros (1842), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Petronilla of Aquitaine (1125), and François Blondel (1618). After him are Philippe Quinault (1635), Hervé (1825), Jean Delannoy (1908), Leslie Caron (1931), Marie Elisabeth of France (1572), and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Julien Gracq ranks 266Before him are Tristan Corbière (1845), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Marquis de Custine (1790), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Augustin Barruel (1741), and Pierre Klossowski (1905). After him are Philippe Quinault (1635), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952), and Francis Jammes (1868).