WRITER

Léon Damas

1912 - 1978

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Léon-Gontran Damas (March 28, 1912 – January 22, 1978) was a French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Damas has received more than 101,774 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Léon Damas is the 4,212th most popular writer (up from 4,241st in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from French Guiana and the most popular Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Veillées noires
1943
Névralgies
1965
Pigments
1962
Black-Label
1956
Poèmes nègres sur des airs africains
Translations from African, Translations into French, African poetry
1948
Pigments - Névralgies
2001

Page views of Léon Damas by language

Over the past year Léon Damas has had the most page views in the with 35,697 views, followed by English (10,458), and German (1,688). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Slovenian (573.33%), Welsh (62.45%), and Latin (36.73%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Léon Damas ranks 4,212 out of 7,302. Before her are Masuji Ibuse, Rafik Schami, Walter Map, Ma Duanlin, Mary Seacole, and Justinas Marcinkevičius. After her are Catherine Millet, David Allen, Carl Sternheim, Dorothea Viehmann, Antanas Baranauskas, and Vasyl Stefanyk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Léon Damas ranks 235. Before her are Erwin Bauer, Enoch Powell, Jehan Buhan, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Frank Thomas, and Maurice Guigue. After her are Roger Courtois, Ted Drake, Ferdinand Leitner, Sándor Végh, Tadashi Imai, and Nam Sung-yong. Among people deceased in 1978, Léon Damas ranks 156. Before her are Kathleen Kenyon, Zenta Mauriņa, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alfred Müller-Armack, Eric Frank Russell, and Leigh Brackett. After her are Mary Blair, Theodor Tolsdorff, Duncan Grant, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, and Jorge Cafrune.

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In French Guiana

Among people born in French Guiana, Léon Damas ranks 4 out of 19. Before her are Henri Salvador (1917), Florent Malouda (1980), and Félix Éboué (1884). After her are Christiane Taubira (1952), Raoul Diagne (1910), Mike Maignan (1995), Claude Dambury (1971), Jean-Clair Todibo (1999), Jean-Claude Darcheville (1975), Cyrille Regis (1958), and Ulrich Robeiri (1982).

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Among WRITERS In French Guiana

Among writers born in French Guiana, Léon Damas ranks 1. 

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