WRITER

René Benjamin

1885 - 1948

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René Benjamin (French pronunciation: [ʁəne bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃]; 1885 in Paris, France - 1948 in Tours, France) was a French writer. In 1915 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Gaspard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Benjamin has received more than 16,012 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. René Benjamin is the 6,037th most popular writer (down from 5,468th in 2019), the 5,042nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,582nd in 2019) and the 640th most popular French Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 3.13

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  • 2.54

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Notable Works

La prodigieuse vie d'Honoré de Balzac
1925
Classic Ghost Stories
Ghost stories, horror stories
Teig O'Kane and the corpse -- The ghost of fear / H.G. Wells -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- Canon Alberic's scrap-book / M.R. James -- A true story / Benjamin Disraeli -- The phantom 'rickshaw / Rudyard Kipling -- The lagoon / Joseph Conrad -- On the water / Guy de Maupassant -- The captain's story / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The erl-king / Goethe -- The body-snatcher/ Robert Louis Stevenson -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- The legend of Macarger's gulch / Ambrose Bierce -- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- August heat / W.F. Harvey -- How he left the hotel / Louisa Baldwin -- The man who went too far / E.F. Benson -- The hall bedroom/ Mary E. Wilkins -- The toll-house / W.W. Jacobs.
2003
Proof of Authority
Bible, commentaries, Religion
2021
La farce de la Sorbonne. --
Université de Paris
1921
Les plaisirs du hasard
1922
Atala and René
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Benjamin ranks 6,037 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Fine, Manuel Rojas, Scott Turow, Ľudmila Podjavorinská, Sandro Veronesi, and Fredy Perlman. After him are Danièle Sallenave, Ravindra Kelekar, Kenneth Rexroth, Izaak Walton, Buchi Emecheta, and Crane Wilbur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, René Benjamin ranks 250. Before him are Herbert Stothart, Erik Algot Fredriksson, Enrico Mizzi, C. J. Hambro, Charles Rosher, and Niels Petersen. After him are Mór Kóczán, John Fenning, Harry Ricardo, Bjørn Rasmussen, George Butterworth, and Lionel Atwill. Among people deceased in 1948, René Benjamin ranks 181. Before him are Frank Benford, John Anderson, James Young, Mary Eaton, George Mehnert, and Poul Heegaard. After him are István Barta, Carl Abrahamsson, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Elissa Landi, Samuel S. Hinds, and Joseph Wedderburn.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Benjamin ranks 5,042 out of 6,770. Before him are Eriq Ebouaney (1967), Jonathan Zebina (1978), Jean Taris (1909), Birinus (600), Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (1942), and Hélène Ségara (1971). After him are Danièle Sallenave (1940), Sébastien Izambard (1973), Anne Consigny (1963), Jeannette Campbell (1916), Marc Berdoll (1953), and Léon Moreaux (1852).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, René Benjamin ranks 640. Before him are Philippe Delerm (1950), Claude Esteban (1935), Jean-Denis Bredin (1929), François Nourissier (1927), Jean Dutourd (1920), and Charles Le Goffic (1863). After him are Danièle Sallenave (1940), Cyril Collard (1957), Jean Rouaud (1952), Patrick Grainville (1947), Éric Vuillard (1968), and Sylvain Tesson (1972).

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