WRITER

Vassilis Alexakis

1943 - 2021

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Vassilis Alexakis (Greek: Βασίλης Αλεξάκης; 25 December 1943 – 11 January 2021) was a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vassilis Alexakis has received more than 39,426 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vassilis Alexakis is the 4,174th most popular writer (down from 3,833rd in 2019), the 670th most popular biography from Greece (down from 625th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vassilis Alexakis ranks 4,174 out of 7,302Before him are Lajos Kassák, Jacqueline de Romilly, Oskar Luts, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Tullio Pinelli, and Conrad Aiken. After him are Olav Duun, Carolina Coronado, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Lydia Chukovskaya, Sahar Khalifeh, and Rachid Boudjedra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Vassilis Alexakis ranks 388Before him are Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Oleg Vidov, Patricia Churchland, Angelo Anquilletti, Richard Moll, and Vaclav Smil. After him are Luis Eduardo Aute, Frances Lee McCain, Bernd Patzke, Robert Durst, Hwang Sok-yong, and Juan Giménez. Among people deceased in 2021, Vassilis Alexakis ranks 305Before him are Ronald DeFeo Jr., John Warner, Marie-Claire Blais, Chris Dickerson, Medea Abrahamyan, and Kalyan Singh. After him are Sanpei Shirato, Dragan Pantelić, Fausto Gresini, Almudena Grandes, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and Patrick Juvet.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Vassilis Alexakis ranks 670 out of 1,024Before him are Megabates (-600), Ioannis Sarmas (1957), Miltiadis Gouskos (1877), Dimitrios Rallis (1844), Anton Yugov (1904), and Ioannis Frangoudis (1863). After him are Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (1902), Sotades (-400), Ian Hamilton (1853), Yiannis Kouros (1956), Phormio (-450), and Sokratis Papastathopoulos (1988).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Vassilis Alexakis ranks 77Before him are Angelos Sikelianos (1884), Lesches (-700), Philoxenus of Cythera (-435), Crates (-350), Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553), and Matilde Serao (1856). After him are Sotades (-400), Pherecrates (-450), Kostas Karyotakis (1896), Lucius Shepard (1943), Myrtis of Anthedon (-500), and Alki Zei (1925).