WRITER

Philippe Claudel

1962 - Today

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Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962) is a French writer and film director.Claudel was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle. In addition to his writing, Claudel is a professor of literature at the University of Nancy.He directed the 2008 film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe Claudel has received more than 102,541 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Philippe Claudel is the 4,854th most popular writer (down from 4,468th in 2019), the 4,401st most popular biography from France (down from 3,989th in 2019) and the 566th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Het verslag van Brodeck
Een oorlogswees wordt nooit helemaal geaccepteerd in een Frans dorp.
2007
Grey Souls
2005
Brodeck
Fiction, Literature, Lynching
Forced into a brutal concentration camp during a great war, Brodeck returns to his village at the war's end and takes up his old job of writing reports for a governmental bureau. One day a stranger comes to live in the village. His odd manner and habits arouse suspicions: His speech is formal, he takes long, solitary walks, and although he is unfailingly friendly and polite, he reveals nothing about himself. When the stranger produces drawings of the village and its inhabitants that are both unflattering and insightful, the villagers murder him. The authorities who witnessed the killing tell Brodeck to write a report that is essentially a whitewash of the incident. As Brodeck writes the official account, he sets down his version of the truth in a separate, parallel narrative. In measured, evocative prose, he weaves into the story of the stranger his own painful history and the dark secrets the villagers have vigilantly keep hidden. Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink's The Reade,r and Kafka will be captivated by Brodeck.
2009
Les Petites Mécaniques
2003
Les âmes grises
2003
By a Slow River
Fiction, Villages, History
2006

Page views of Philippe Claudels by language

Over the past year Philippe Claudel has had the most page views in the with 78,407 views, followed by Spanish (11,337), and English (11,032). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (138.73%), Basque (74.55%), and Swedish (50.95%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philippe Claudel ranks 4,854 out of 7,302. Before him are Jan Kjærstad, Joe R. Lansdale, Vitaliano Brancati, Jenő Rejtő, Marie Hankel, and Bedros Tourian. After him are Pashko Vasa, Qurratulain Hyder, Dulce María Loynaz, Andrei Mureșanu, Reiner Kunze, and Bruno Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Philippe Claudel ranks 241. Before him are Lana Clarkson, Stefano Gabbana, Anatoliy Serdyukov, Jure Franko, Stephen Sommers, and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. After him are Tom Kane, Bruno Bellone, Teri Weigel, Andries Jonker, Mic Michaeli, and Anatoly Khrapaty.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe Claudel ranks 4,401 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778), Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard (1652), Émile Oustalet (1844), Jeannie Longo (1958), Alain Perrin (1956), and Mady Mesplé (1931). After him are Bruno Dumont (1958), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Robert Planquette (1848), Théodore Monod (1902), Bruno Bellone (1962), and Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Philippe Claudel ranks 566. Before him are Florence Delay (1941), Michel Déon (1919), Carine Roitfeld (1954), Raymond Abellio (1907), Robert of Torigni (1100), and Émile Souvestre (1806). After him are Paul Louis Courier (1772), Valentin Conrart (1603), Jean-Christophe Rufin (1952), Eugène Guillevic (1907), Frédérick Tristan (1931), and Albert Londres (1884).

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