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Marie-Claire Blais

1939 - 2021

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Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie-Claire Blais has received more than 90,460 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marie-Claire Blais is the 3,025th most popular writer (up from 4,560th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 362nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 3,025 out of 5,755. Before her are James Rollins, Fanny Crosby, Victor Segalen, Rahman Baba, Josef Jungmann, and Gu Yanwu. After her are Robert M. Pirsig, Boris Pilnyak, Robert de Nola, Vladimir Sorokin, Marcel Prévost, and William Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 219. Before her are Nông Đức Mạnh, Bulle Ogier, Robert Darnton, Patrick Wayne, Jacques Vallée, and Néstor Combin. After her are Roy Buchanan, Samad Behrangi, John Tong Hon, Sid Haig, Judy Chicago, and Yves Meyer. Among people deceased in 2021, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 294. Before her are Almudena Grandes, Jim Steinman, Yevhen Marchuk, Lars Norén, Jaime Lerner, and B. J. Thomas. After her are George Shultz, Robert Bly, Michael Nesmith, Gunilla Bergström, István Csom, and Udo Zimmermann.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 183 out of 1,350. Before her are Hubert Reeves (1932), Alan Thicke (1947), Maynard Ferguson (1928), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Emily Carr (1871), and Sandra Oh (1971). After her are Ann Rutherford (1917), Jean Béliveau (1931), David Johnston (1941), Oliver Platt (1960), René Lévesque (1922), and Bret Hart (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 10. Before her are Saul Bellow (1915), A. E. van Vogt (1912), Brian Tracy (1944), David Morrell (1943), Shulamith Firestone (1945), and David Shore (1959). After her are Gabrielle Roy (1909), Naomi Klein (1970), Mordecai Richler (1931), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Anne Hébert (1916), and Harold Russell (1914).

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