WRITER

Violette Leduc

1907 - 1972

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Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Violette Leduc has received more than 193,170 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Violette Leduc is the 2,692nd most popular writer (down from 2,020th in 2019), the 2,932nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,285th in 2019) and the 366th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Folie en tête
Lesbian authors, French Authors, Biography
1970
Ravages
1955
L' asphyxie
1946
La chasse à l'amour
Biography, Women authors, French, French Women authors
1973
Bâtarde
Biography, French Novelists, French Women authors
1964
La Folie en tête
Lesbian authors, French Authors, Biography
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Violette Leduc ranks 2,692 out of 7,302. Before her are Jean-François de La Harpe, David Lagercrantz, Giuseppe Giacosa, Horace McCoy, Robert M. Pirsig, and William Smith. After her are Hildebert, Yi Kwang-su, Juliette Adam, George Tabori, Maximilian Voloshin, and Oscar Cullmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Violette Leduc ranks 151. Before her are Parvin E'tesami, Isaac Deutscher, Max Pauly, Viktoria Brezhneva, Guido Masetti, and Anton Schall. After her are Yasushi Inoue, Varian Fry, Victor Capesius, Roman Rudenko, Lev Oborin, and Shiro Teshima. Among people deceased in 1972, Violette Leduc ranks 98. Before her are Pierre Brasseur, Edward Calvin Kendall, Ivan Yefremov, Dan Blocker, Prince William of Gloucester, and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Walter Jackson Freeman II, Lee Morgan, František Čáp, Mahendra of Nepal, Meena Kumari, and Vladimir Durković.

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In France

Among people born in France, Violette Leduc ranks 2,932 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741), Olivier Assayas (1955), Daniel Gélin (1921), Denise Perrier (1935), and Nicolas Froment (1430). After her are Hildebert (1056), Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), Juliette Adam (1836), Salomon, King of Brittany (900), Albert Vanhoye (1923), and Michel Corrette (1707).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Violette Leduc ranks 366. Before her are Jules Guesde (1845), Mirra Alfassa (1878), Petrus Comestor (1100), Lupus Servatus (805), Jacques Collin de Plancy (1794), and Jean-François de La Harpe (1739). After her are Hildebert (1056), Juliette Adam (1836), Oscar Cullmann (1902), Max Gallo (1932), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), and Champfleury (1821).

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