WRITER

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1894 - 1961

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Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( say-LEEN; French: [lwi fɛʁdinɑ̃ selin] ), was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-Ferdinand Céline has received more than 1,360,955 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Louis-Ferdinand Céline is the 198th most popular writer (up from 231st in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from France (up from 268th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Writer.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline is most famous for his novel Journey to the End of the Night.

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  • 76.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 198 out of 7,302. Before him are Lu Xun, Al-Masudi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Juvenal, Luís de Camões, and Roald Dahl. After him are William Blake, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, and Mansur Al-Hallaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 6. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, Gavrilo Princip, Rudolf Hess, Edward VIII, and Aldous Huxley. After him are Maximilian Kolbe, Georges Lemaître, John Ford, Boris III of Bulgaria, Moshe Sharett, and Jean Renoir. Among people deceased in 1961, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 6. Before him are Ernest Hemingway, Carl Jung, Erwin Schrödinger, Patrice Lumumba, and Dag Hammarskjöld. After him are Emily Greene Balch, Gary Cooper, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jules Bordet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Mohammed V of Morocco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 240 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles the Simple (879), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), Joseph Fouché (1759), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Jeanne Calment (1875), and Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640). After him are Richard II of England (1367), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Simone Weil (1909), Berthe Morisot (1841), and Oscar I of Sweden (1799).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 39. Before him are Jean Racine (1639), Annie Ernaux (1940), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Nicolas Flamel (1330), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), and André Breton (1896). After him are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), and J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940).

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