1945 - Today
Pierre Michon (born 28 March 1945, Châtelus-le-Marcheix, Creuse) is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Michon has received more than 49,193 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Pierre Michon is the 4,286th most popular writer (down from 4,216th in 2019), the 3,896th most popular biography from France (down from 3,656th in 2019) and the 514th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Pierre Michon ranks 4,286 out of 5,755. Before him are François Tristan l'Hermite, Walter Kempowski, Anne Carson, Yōko Ogawa, Mato Kósyk, and Georges Eekhoud. After him are Elizabeth Gilbert, Susanna Tamaro, Pashko Vasa, Dicuil, Adela Zamudio, and John Norman.
1601 - 1655
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 4,280
1929 - 2007
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 4,281
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,282
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,283
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,284
1854 - 1927
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,285
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,286
1969 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 4,287
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 4,288
1825 - 1892
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 4,289
800 - 900
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 4,290
1854 - 1928
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 4,291
1931 - Present
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 4,292
Among people born in 1945, Pierre Michon ranks 326. Before him are Agustín Balbuena, John McVie, Edmund M. Clarke, Jean-Pierre Kutwa, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, and Carlos Osoro Sierra. After him are Walt Frazier, Pat Jennings, Kadir Topbaş, Meira Kumar, Ronee Blakley, and Roberta Bondar.
1945 - 2021
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 320
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 321
1945 - 2020
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 322
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 323
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 324
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 325
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 326
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 327
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 328
1945 - 2021
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 329
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 330
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 331
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 332
Among people born in France, Pierre Michon ranks 3,896 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Tardieu (1903), Jules Lemaître (1853), Louise Bertin (1805), Claire Bretécher (1940), François Tristan l'Hermite (1601), and Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804). After him are Yves Boisset (1939), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), André Tassin (1902), J. R. D. Tata (1904), Frédéric Kanouté (1977), and Viviane Romance (1912).
1903 - 1995
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 3,890
1853 - 1914
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 3,891
1805 - 1877
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 3,892
1940 - 2020
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 3,893
1601 - 1655
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 3,894
1804 - 1863
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,895
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,896
1939 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,897
1800 - 1872
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 3,898
1902 - 1986
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 3,899
1904 - 1993
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 3,900
1977 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 3,901
1912 - 1991
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 3,902
Among writers born in France, Pierre Michon ranks 514. Before him are Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), Raymond Schwartz (1894), Jean Tardieu (1903), Jules Lemaître (1853), and François Tristan l'Hermite (1601). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709), Ernst Stadler (1883), Louis Henri Boussenard (1847), Roger Vitrac (1899), Philippe Djian (1949), and Louis Hémon (1880).
1884 - 1947
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 508
1928 - 2006
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 509
1894 - 1973
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 510
1903 - 1995
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 511
1853 - 1914
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 512
1601 - 1655
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 513
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 514
1709 - 1777
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 515
1883 - 1914
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 516
1847 - 1910
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 517
1899 - 1952
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 518
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 519
1880 - 1913
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 520