WRITER

Philippe Jaccottet

1925 - 2021

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Philippe Jaccottet (French: [filip ʒakotɛ]; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe Jaccottet has received more than 58,280 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Philippe Jaccottet is the 3,731st most popular writer (down from 3,166th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 311th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Swiss Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Un calme feu
2007
Paysages avec figures absentes
1970
Une constellation, tout prôs. choix de poetes d'expression française du xxe siecle
French Literature, SEL Library selection
2002
Israël, cahier bleu
2004
La promenade sous les arbres
1957
La semaison
1963

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philippe Jaccottet ranks 3,731 out of 7,302. Before him are Constance Lloyd, Sunthorn Phu, Georgette Heyer, Wu Jingzi, Bruno Apitz, and Innokenty Annensky. After him are James A. Michener, José Emilio Pacheco, Margit Kaffka, Og Mandino, Franco Sacchetti, and Ernst Jandl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Philippe Jaccottet ranks 242. Before him are Luis Herrera Campins, Konrad Wolf, Nina Lobkovskaya, Seymour Cray, Theodore Levitt, and Lennart Bergelin. After him are Ernst Jandl, Shehu Shagari, John Neville, Yuli Daniel, Ritwik Ghatak, and Vojtěch Jasný. Among people deceased in 2021, Philippe Jaccottet ranks 270. Before him are Gianluigi Saccaro, Ronald Pickup, Jan de Vries, R. Murray Schafer, Willie Garson, and Yıldırım Akbulut. After him are Verónica Forqué, Gimax, Friederike Mayröcker, Pavol Molnár, José Freire Falcão, and Jane Powell.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Philippe Jaccottet ranks 381 out of 1,015. Before him are Bernhard Hammer (1822), Erhard Loretan (1959), Karin Keller-Sutter (1963), Tariq Ramadan (1962), Adolf Ogi (1942), and Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687). After him are Oswald Heer (1809), Emil Frey (1838), Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921), Didier Queloz (1966), Alfred Newton (1829), and Werner Bischof (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Philippe Jaccottet ranks 35. Before him are Edmond Privat (1889), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Ella Maillart (1903), Françoise Giroud (1916), and Theodore Bibliander (1500). After him are Robert Pinget (1919), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Peter Bichsel (1935), Fernán Caballero (1796), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), and Johann David Wyss (1743).

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