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Pascal Lainé

1942 - Today

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Pascal Lainé (born 10 May 1942 in Anet, Eure-et-Loir) is a French academic, novelist, and writer. Awarded both the Prix Médicis (1971 for l'Irrévolution) and the Goncourt (1974 for La Dentellière), Pascal Lainé has published over 20 novels and has written for television, theater, and film. While recovering from childhood illnesses, Lainé discovered novelists Alexandre Dumas, père and Victor Hugo, aspiring to their kind of voluminous writing, but in school he focused on philosophy and history, becoming an avid student of Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pascal Lainé has received more than 21,615 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pascal Lainé is the 4,939th most popular writer, the 4,253rd most popular biography from France and the 554th most popular French Writer.

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  • 22k

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  • 45.41

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pascal Lainé ranks 4,939 out of 5,755Before him are Clara Reeve, Charles Montagu Doughty, Jamaica Kincaid, José Luandino Vieira, Nicholas Meyer, and Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani. After him are Béatrix Beck, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ekaterine Gabashvili, José María de Pereda, Scott O'Dell, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Pascal Lainé ranks 472Before him are Claudine Longet, Miguel Ángel Santoro, Celso Amorim, Tom Peters, Driss Bamous, and Fredi. After him are Edwin Starr, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Al Matthews, Paulos Faraj Rahho, Norman Greenbaum, and Mario Chaldú.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pascal Lainé ranks 4,253 out of 6,011Before him are James Dwight (1852), Gilbert Bougnol (1866), Roger Dumas (1932), Gilles Grangier (1911), Michel Félix Dunal (1789), and Guy Lapébie (1916). After him are Marcellin Boule (1861), Palisot de Beauvois (1752), Jean-Luc Ettori (1955), Daniel Bravo (1963), Demba Ba (1985), and Moussa Sissoko (1989).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pascal Lainé ranks 554Before him are Eugène Guillevic (1907), Jean Vautrin (1933), Victoire Léodile Béra (1824), René Bazin (1853), Jacques Laurent (1919), and Francis de Miomandre (1880). After him are Thierry Meyssan (1957), Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589), Joseph Roumanille (1818), Henri Béraud (1885), Alain Decaux (1925), and Anatole Le Braz (1859).