WRITER

Nancy Huston

1953 - Today

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Nancy Louise Huston, OC (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Huston has received more than 128,538 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nancy Huston is the 4,633rd most popular writer (down from 4,399th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Canada (down from 321st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 130k

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  • 55.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nancy Huston ranks 4,633 out of 7,302. Before her are Friedrich von Hagedorn, James Agee, Oğuz Atay, Adam Asnyk, Alexander McCall Smith, and Ludwig Bechstein. After her are W. S. Gilbert, Molla Vali Vidadi, Kostas Karyotakis, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Lin Shu, and Zane Grey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Nancy Huston ranks 286. Before her are Can Xue, Hamilton Mourão, Artūras Paulauskas, Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, Ken Davitian, and Nicolas Schmit. After her are Taner Akçam, Glykeria, Mary Harron, Józef Młynarczyk, Patti Scialfa, and Carole André.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Nancy Huston ranks 325 out of 1,622. Before her are Edge (1973), John McCrae (1872), John Abbott (1821), Yassine Bounou (1991), Pom Klementieff (1986), and Seth Rogen (1982). After her are Percy Williams (1908), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Steven Erikson (1959), David Suzuki (1936), Susan Clark (1943), and Mary Harron (1953).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Nancy Huston ranks 22. Before her are Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Robin Sharma (1965), Mordecai Richler (1931), Laurence J. Peter (1919), Duncan Regehr (1952), and Émile Nelligan (1879). After her are Steven Erikson (1959), Michel Tremblay (1942), Naomi Klein (1970), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Harold Russell (1914), and Grant Allen (1848).

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