WRITER

Marthe Bibesco

1886 - 1973

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Princess Martha Bibescu (Martha Lucia; née Lahovary; 28 January 1886 – 28 November 1973) also known outside of Romania as Marthe Bibesco, was a celebrated Romanian-French writer, socialite, style icon and political hostess. She spent her childhood at the noble Lahovary's estates in Balotești and Biarritz, where she had an education in literature. During her life, she travelled to and moved around many European countries and met many contemporary influential political figures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marthe Bibesco has received more than 127,313 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Marthe Bibesco is the 2,102nd most popular writer (up from 2,269th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Romania (up from 154th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Romanian Writer.

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  • 55.85

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Isvor
1923
Katia
1938
Perroquet vert
Fiction
The Green Parrot is a strange and beautiful story with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth snuff box. There is a great deal of reticent drama, but no melodrama. The overtones of the story are left to the reader's imagination. The result is a slender, but captivating and completely self sufficient novel. THE NEW YORK TIMES
1929
Le Confesseur et les poètes
1970
Au bal avec Marcel Proust
1928
Catherine-Paris
1927

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marthe Bibesco ranks 2,102 out of 7,302. Before her are C. W. Ceram, Constantine Manasses, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Anne Golon, Li Shangyin, and Fred Uhlman. After her are James Hilton, François Coppée, Terry Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Choniates, and Patrick O'Brian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Marthe Bibesco ranks 94. Before her are Shūmei Ōkawa, Olaf Stapledon, Edward Weston, Florence Lawrence, Frank Nitti, and Anandyn Amar. After her are Rudolf Schmidt, Stefania Wilczyńska, Salvador de Madariaga, Ernst Robert Curtius, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., and Hans von Obstfelder. Among people deceased in 1973, Marthe Bibesco ranks 96. Before her are Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Roger Williamson, Lorenzo Fernández, Maurice René Fréchet, Jarno Saarinen, and Clas Thunberg. After her are Merian C. Cooper, Fuad Chehab, Helen Parkhurst, Gene Krupa, Alois Hába, and Tarsila do Amaral.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Marthe Bibesco ranks 140 out of 844. Before her are Victor Brauner (1903), Manea Mănescu (1916), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (1784), Dora d'Istria (1828), and Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812). After her are Sergiu Nicolaescu (1930), Vazgen I (1908), Francis I Rákóczi (1645), István Bethlen (1874), Edward Luttwak (1942), and János Arany (1817).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Marthe Bibesco ranks 18. Before her are Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), Ion Creangă (1837), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916), and Dora d'Istria (1828). After her are János Arany (1817), Mircea Cărtărescu (1956), Vasile Alecsandri (1821), Mihail Sebastian (1907), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Richard Wurmbrand (1909).

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