WRITER

Pierre Gamarra

1919 - 2009

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Pierre Gamarra (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ gamaˈʁa]; 10 July 1919 – 20 May 2009) was a French poet, novelist and literary critic, a long-time chief editor and director of the literary magazine Europe.Gamarra is best known for his poems and novels for the youth and for narrative and poetical works deeply rooted in his native region of Midi-Pyrénées. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Gamarra has received more than 34,283 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Gamarra is the 2,878th most popular writer (up from 3,167th in 2019), the 3,065th most popular biography from France (up from 3,197th in 2019) and the 381st most popular French Writer.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.39

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  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le maître d'école
1994
Notre amie George Sand
Authors, French, Biography, French Authors
2004
Rosalie Brousse
1975
Les mystères de Toulouse
Fiction, History
1967
La maison de feu
1969
L' or et le sang
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Gamarra ranks 2,878 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucia Berlin, Erich Fried, Lawrence Block, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Gideon Levy, and Michael Bond. After him are Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Andre Norton, Zülfü Livaneli, Avetik Isahakyan, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, and Hyginus Gromaticus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Pierre Gamarra ranks 131. Before him are Werner Goldberg, Rie Mastenbroek, Howard Keel, Henri Vidal, G. E. M. Anscombe, and Félix Gaillard. After him are Salomon Morel, James H. Wilkinson, Franco Rossi, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Franjo Kuharić, and Albert Batteux. Among people deceased in 2009, Pierre Gamarra ranks 133. Before him are Hong Song-nam, Johannes Mario Simmel, Robert Holdstock, Walter Cronkite, Anselmo Duarte, and Natalya Estemirova. After him are Andrea Mead Lawrence, Francisco Ayala, Budd Schulberg, Horst Szymaniak, Roy E. Disney, and Giovanni Arrighi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Gamarra ranks 3,065 out of 6,770. Before him are Vernon Dobtcheff (1934), Félix Bracquemond (1833), Pierre Poivre (1719), Jacques Tardi (1946), Riyad Mahrez (1991), and François-Auguste Biard (1799). After him are Georges Marchais (1920), Princess Marie of Denmark (1976), Childebrand I (695), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), Charles-Denis Bourbaki (1816), and Jacques Duclos (1896).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Gamarra ranks 381. Before him are Francis Ponge (1899), Albert Robida (1848), Pierre Benoit (1886), Jean Lorrain (1855), Pierre Grimal (1912), and Guiraut Riquier (1230). After him are Léon Daudet (1867), Jean Richepin (1849), Armand Salacrou (1899), Jean-François Revel (1924), Pascal Bruckner (1948), and Thomas Corneille (1625).

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