WRITER

Romain Gary

1914 - 1980

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Romain Gary (pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (pronounced [katsɛf], and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice (once under pseudonym). He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Romain Gary has received more than 1,215,735 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Romain Gary is the 567th most popular writer (down from 365th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Writer.

Romain Gary was a French writer who was most famous for his novels "The Roots of Heaven" and "The Life Before Us."

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  • 65.98

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Romain Gary ranks 567 out of 7,302. Before him are Georges Perec, Ausonius, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sidney Sheldon, A. A. Milne, and Faxian. After him are William S. Burroughs, Al-Zamakhshari, Harry Martinson, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Jaroslav Seifert, and Laurence Sterne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Romain Gary ranks 18. Before him are Alec Guinness, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Richard Widmark, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Bohumil Hrabal, and Abd al-Karim Qasim. After him are William S. Burroughs, Willi Stoph, Lída Baarová, Joe Louis, Aribert Heim, and Richard Laurence Millington Synge. Among people deceased in 1980, Romain Gary ranks 26. Before him are Peter Sellers, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexei Kosygin, Otto Frank, Hans Asperger, and Oswald Mosley. After him are Milton H. Erickson, John Bonham, Fritz Strassmann, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Alexander Oparin, and Óscar Romero.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Romain Gary ranks 15 out of 328. Before him are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Kęstutis (1297), and César Cui (1835). After him are Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), Jascha Heifetz (1901), Emilia Plater (1806), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Valdas Adamkus (1926), and Antanas Smetona (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Romain Gary ranks 2. Before him are Czesław Miłosz (1911). After him are Jonas Mekas (1922), Simon Dach (1605), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Tomas Venclova (1937), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930).

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