WRITER

Robert Pinget

1919 - 1997

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Robert Pinget (19 July 1919 – 25 August 1997) was an avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Pinget has received more than 42,056 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Robert Pinget is the 3,849th most popular writer (down from 3,760th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 372nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 42k

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  • 50.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lettre morte
1959
Baga
Fiction, Kings and rulers
1958
Fable
1971
Autour de Mortin
1965
Mahu
1952
Graal Flibuste
1956
Entre Fantoine et Agapa
1951
Mahu
1952
Graal Flibuste
1956
Lettre morte
1959
Autour de Mortin
French fiction
1965
Baga
Fiction, Kings and rulers
1958
Autour de Mortin
French fiction
1965
Lettre morte
1959
Baga
Fiction, Kings and rulers
1958
Graal Flibuste
1956
Mahu
1952
Entre Fantoine et Agapa
1951

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Pinget ranks 3,849 out of 7,302. Before him are Cesar Millan, A. Merritt, Maurice Schumann, Marianne Moore, Paul Fort, and Geo Milev. After him are Antun Mihanović, Alberto Hurtado, Han Kang, Veniamin Kaverin, Elisaveta Bagriana, and Sophia Parnok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Robert Pinget ranks 192. Before him are Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Carole Landis, Hans Klenk, Lennie Tristano, Michèle Arnaud, and Karl H. Pribram. After him are Gene Barry, Lawrence Tierney, Nehemiah Persoff, Irmgard Seefried, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, and Eileen Heckart. Among people deceased in 1997, Robert Pinget ranks 170. Before him are René Huyghe, Georges Guétary, James A. Michener, Brian Connolly, Bengt Danielsson, and Georgy Shonin. After him are John Akii-Bua, Myrtle Bachelder, Tony Williams, Afonsinho, William Hickey, and Tete Montoliu.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Robert Pinget ranks 393 out of 1,015. Before him are Werner Bischof (1916), Jules Gilliéron (1854), René Burri (1933), Samuel Schmid (1947), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), and Henry, Duke of Parma (1873). After him are Thomas Bickel (1963), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Robert Ballaman (1926), Gottfried von Einem (1918), Murat Yakin (1974), and Jacques-Louis Soret (1827).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Robert Pinget ranks 36. Before him are Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Ella Maillart (1903), Françoise Giroud (1916), Theodore Bibliander (1500), and Philippe Jaccottet (1925). After him are Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Peter Bichsel (1935), Fernán Caballero (1796), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Johann David Wyss (1743), and Alain de Botton (1969).

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