WRITER

Michel Tournier

1924 - 2016

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Michel Tournier (French: [miʃɛl tuʁnje]; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Tournier has received more than 171,706 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Tournier is the 1,044th most popular writer (up from 1,149th in 2019), the 1,185th most popular biography from France (up from 1,324th in 2019) and the 157th most popular French Writer.

Michel Tournier is most famous for his novel "The Erasers."

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michel Tournier ranks 1,044 out of 7,302. Before him are Fyodor Tyutchev, Marcel Pagnol, D. T. Suzuki, Cai Yan, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Chinua Achebe. After him are Thomas Malory, Emil Ludwig, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Paul Bourget, Emanuel Schikaneder, and Giambattista Marino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Michel Tournier ranks 54. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Rauf Denktaş, Charlie Munger, Israel Tal, Francisco Macías Nguema, and James Black. After him are Giovanni Sartori, Ante Marković, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Dorothy Malone, Guy Williams, and Bulat Okudzhava. Among people deceased in 2016, Michel Tournier ranks 65. Before him are Reinhard Selten, Patricio Aylwin, Hilary Putnam, Robert Vaughn, Jacques Rivette, and Konstantinos Stephanopoulos. After him are Vesna Vulović, Sonia Rykiel, Marvin Minsky, Walter Kohn, Chyna, and Queen Anne of Romania.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Tournier ranks 1,185 out of 6,770. Before him are Édith Cresson (1934), Marcel Pagnol (1895), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), Émile Bernard (1868), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), and Tancred of Hauteville (980). After him are Émile Gallé (1846), Paul Bourget (1852), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Arnulf of Metz (582), Édouard Vuillard (1868), and Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Michel Tournier ranks 157. Before him are Jean Giraudoux (1882), André Bazin (1918), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paulinus of Nola (354), and Marcel Pagnol (1895). After him are Paul Bourget (1852), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), Sonia Rykiel (1930), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Charles Péguy (1873), and Jean Giono (1895).

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