1894 - 1961
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 1,220,732 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Louis-Ferdinand Céline is the 231st most popular writer (down from 221st in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from France (down from 255th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Writer.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline is most famous for his novel Journey to the End of the Night.
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Among writers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 231 out of 5,755. Before him are Johanna Spyri, Nikos Kazantzakis, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Maurice Leblanc, Al-Masudi, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. After him are Lu Xun, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wintour, François de La Rochefoucauld, Anna Akhmatova, and Philip K. Dick.
1827 - 1901
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 225
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 226
1600 - 1681
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 227
1864 - 1941
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 228
896 - 956
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 229
1803 - 1882
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 230
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 231
1881 - 1936
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 232
1759 - 1797
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 233
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 234
1613 - 1680
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 235
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 236
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 237
Among people born in 1894, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 8. Before him are Gavrilo Princip, Rudolf Hess, Edward VIII, Aldous Huxley, Maximilian Kolbe, and Georges Lemaître. After him are Boris III of Bulgaria, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Norbert Wiener, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, and Joseph Roth. Among people deceased in 1961, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 7. Before him are Ernest Hemingway, Carl Jung, Erwin Schrödinger, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, and Gary Cooper. After him are Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emily Greene Balch, Jules Bordet, Zog I of Albania, Rafael Trujillo, and Adnan Menderes.
1894 - 1918
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 2
1894 - 1987
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 3
1894 - 1972
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 4
1894 - 1963
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 5
1894 - 1941
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 6
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 7
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1894 - 1973
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 10
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 11
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 12
1894 - 1972
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 13
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 14
1899 - 1961
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 1
1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 2
1887 - 1961
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 3
1905 - 1961
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 4
1925 - 1961
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 5
1901 - 1961
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 6
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 7
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 8
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 9
1870 - 1961
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 10
1895 - 1961
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 11
1891 - 1961
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 12
1899 - 1961
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 13
Among people born in France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 268 out of 6,011. Before him are Arsène Wenger (1949), Philip I of France (1052), Pope Callixtus II (1065), Josquin des Prez (1450), Ferdinand Foch (1851), and Maurice Leblanc (1864). After him are Jules Massenet (1842), Désirée Clary (1777), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Camille Claudel (1864), John the Fearless (1371), and Jean Gabin (1904).
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 262
1052 - 1108
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 263
1065 - 1124
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 264
1450 - 1521
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 265
1851 - 1929
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 266
1864 - 1941
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 267
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 268
1842 - 1912
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 269
1777 - 1860
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 270
1613 - 1680
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 271
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 272
1371 - 1419
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 273
1904 - 1976
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 274
Among writers born in France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranks 41. Before him are Petronius (27), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Colette (1873), Pierre Corneille (1606), and Maurice Leblanc (1864). After him are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Germaine de Staël (1766), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Françoise Sagan (1935), and Guillaume de Machaut (1300).
27 - 66
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 35
1768 - 1848
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 36
1842 - 1898
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 37
1873 - 1954
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 38
1606 - 1684
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 39
1864 - 1941
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 40
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 41
1613 - 1680
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 42
1766 - 1817
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 43
1830 - 1914
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 44
1135 - 1185
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 45
1935 - 2004
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 46
1300 - 1377
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 47