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WRITER

Roger Vailland

1907 - 1965

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Roger Vailland (16 October 1907 – 12 May 1965) was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Vailland has received more than 32,065 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Roger Vailland is the 3,515th most popular writer (up from 3,754th in 2019), the 3,440th most popular biography from France (down from 3,425th in 2019) and the 446th most popular French Writer.

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  • 32k

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  • 50.04

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roger Vailland ranks 3,515 out of 5,755Before him are Janet Asimov, John Winthrop, Jerzy Giedroyc, Musine Kokalari, Ahmed Rami, and Reinhard Bonnke. After him are Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Ronald Harwood, Chögyam Trungpa, Alfred Kerr, Leopold Zunz, and David Bergelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Roger Vailland ranks 186Before him are Polina Osipenko, Varian Fry, Ramón de la Fuente Leal, Sándor Veress, Blagoje Marjanović, and Gene Autry. After him are John Marley, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Sergei Shtemenko, Paul Magloire, Peggy Ashcroft, and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter. Among people deceased in 1965, Roger Vailland ranks 109Before him are Nikolay Lossky, Laureano Gómez, Daniel-Rops, Johnny Hayes, Joseph Grew, and John Kitzmiller. After him are Johannes Bobrowski, Edward R. Murrow, Harry Crerar, Henry Cowell, Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, and Alejandro Casona.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Vailland ranks 3,440 out of 6,011Before him are Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (1134), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Albert I, Count of Namur (1000), Achille Devéria (1800), Philippe Alliot (1954), and Clémence Royer (1830). After him are Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Rémi Gaillard (1975), Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne (1618), Louis Charles Delescluze (1809), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), and Laurent Terzieff (1935).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Roger Vailland ranks 446Before him are Jean Effel (1908), Bonaventure des Périers (1510), Daniel-Rops (1901), Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Frédéric Beigbeder (1965), and Daniel Boulanger (1922). After him are René Huyghe (1906), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), Henry Bataille (1872), Maurice Genevoix (1890), Jean Desmarets (1595), and Bernard Maris (1946).