WRITER

Pierre Lemaitre

1951 - Today

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Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven. His first novel to be translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book of the same title, it jointly won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013. In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Lemaitre has received more than 224,376 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Pierre Lemaitre is the 1,839th most popular writer (up from 1,999th in 2019), the 2,084th most popular biography from France (up from 2,260th in 2019) and the 261st most popular French Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 56.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 1,839 out of 7,302. Before him are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Rick Riordan, Rhonda Byrne, Daṇḍin, Edwin Abbott Abbott, and Herodas. After him are Fulcanelli, May Ziade, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Feng Menglong, Edmond Jabès, and Hipponax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 100. Before him are Emmanuel Todd, Laimdota Straujuma, Carl Wieman, Christian Lacroix, Börje Salming, and Treat Williams. After him are Duncan Haldane, Dražen Dalipagić, Ernesto Zedillo, Roger Myerson, Dee Dee Ramone, and Alexander Sokurov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 2,084 out of 6,770. Before him are Max Decugis (1882), Victorine Meurent (1844), Henry Darcy (1803), John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (1582), Guy Hamilton (1922), and Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629). After him are Charles II, Count of Alençon (1297), Gonzalo Higuaín (1987), Pontus De la Gardie (1520), Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414), James Louis Sobieski (1667), and Nicholas of Verdun (1130).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 261. Before him are Gabriel Naudé (1600), Albert Gleizes (1881), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Rodulfus Glaber (985), Prosper of Aquitaine (390), and Elif Shafak (1971). After him are Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), Théodore de Banville (1823), Benjamin Péret (1899), Augustin Barruel (1741), Philippe Quinault (1635), and Éric Zemmour (1958).

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