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Roland Topor

1938 - 1997

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Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish émigrés from Warsaw, Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Topor has received more than 256,203 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Roland Topor is the 1,287th most popular writer (up from 1,475th in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from France (up from 1,650th in 2019) and the 189th most popular French Writer.

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roland Topor ranks 1,287 out of 5,755. Before him are Émile Gaboriau, Jan Długosz, Ibn Sirin, Lycophron, Hassan ibn Thabit, and Victor Serge. After him are Shūsaku Endō, Juan Rulfo, Mavro Orbini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Robin Hobb, and Jan Kochanowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Roland Topor ranks 87. Before him are Frank Langella, Marcello Gandini, Eddie Cochran, Luigi Tenco, Leiji Matsumoto, and Enrico Macias. After him are Jerry West, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Giuliano Amato, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Regan, and Fela Kuti. Among people deceased in 1997, Roland Topor ranks 64. Before him are Miguel Najdorf, Narciso Yepes, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Marco Ferreri, Masaru Ibuka, and André Franquin. After him are Friedrich Hund, Barbara, Stig Anderson, Fela Kuti, Yevgeny Khaldei, and Son Sen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roland Topor ranks 1,496 out of 6,011. Before him are Émile Gaboriau (1832), Émile Waldteufel (1837), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), and Pierre Louis Dulong (1785). After him are William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), John of Matha (1150), Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (1489), and Bertrade de Montfort (1070).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Roland Topor ranks 189. Before him are Régis Debray (1940), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), Odo of Cluny (878), Charles Péguy (1873), Michel Butor (1926), and Émile Gaboriau (1832). After him are Clément Marot (1495), Monique Wittig (1935), Xavier de Maistre (1763), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Adam de la Halle (1245), and Marie Anne Lenormand (1772).

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