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Pierre Michon

1945 - Today

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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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  • 49k

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  • 47.73

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Michon ranks 4,286 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Pierre Michon ranks 326Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Michon ranks 3,896 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Michon ranks 514Before 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).