WRITER

Raymond Queneau

1903 - 1976

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Raymond Queneau (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ kəno]; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Queneau has received more than 339,566 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Raymond Queneau is the 632nd most popular writer (up from 660th in 2019), the 730th most popular biography from France (up from 774th in 2019) and the 106th most popular French Writer.

Raymond Queneau is most famous for his novel Zazie dans le métro, which has been translated into English as Zazie in the Metro.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

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  • 65.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raymond Queneau ranks 632 out of 7,302. Before him are Zecharia Sitchin, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, Ludwig Tieck, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Witold Gombrowicz. After him are Edward Bernays, Curzio Malaparte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Saul Bellow, Clarice Lispector, and Daphne du Maurier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Raymond Queneau ranks 31. Before him are Hans Jonas, Nikolai Podgorny, Igor Kurchatov, Jiro Horikoshi, Fahri Korutürk, and Karl Hanke. After him are George Beadle, John Dillinger, Irène Némirovsky, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Matthias Sindelar, and Haldan Keffer Hartline. Among people deceased in 1976, Raymond Queneau ranks 25. Before him are Jacques Monod, Eyvind Johnson, Benjamin Britten, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Leopold Ružička, and Zhu De. After him are Choe Yong-gon, Trofim Lysenko, Gustav Heinemann, Alexander Calder, Rudolf Bultmann, and Juscelino Kubitschek.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raymond Queneau ranks 730 out of 6,770. Before him are René Clair (1898), Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Louis Le Vau (1612), François Darlan (1881), and Charles Nicolle (1866). After him are Claude of France (1499), Peter Waldo (1140), François Fénelon (1651), William Longsword (893), John, Duke of Berry (1340), and Jeanne Hébuterne (1898).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Raymond Queneau ranks 106. Before him are Ausonius (310), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Pierre Loti (1850), and Madame Roland (1754). After him are Eugène Sue (1804), Frontinus (30), Marie de France (1101), Maurice Blanchot (1907), Bernard Gui (1261), and Jean Froissart (1337).

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