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Wyndham Lewis

1882 - 1957

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed of The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wyndham Lewis has received more than 591,834 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wyndham Lewis is the 4,656th most popular writer (down from 4,132nd in 2019), the 357th most popular biography from Canada (down from 302nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 23

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  • 3.64

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wyndham Lewis ranks 4,656 out of 5,755. Before him are Terenci Moix, Raymond Abellio, Olav Aukrust, Axel Bakunts, Bernard Clavel, and Ann Druyan. After him are Margery Allingham, Fritz von Unruh, John Lyly, Oskar Pastior, Helen Fielding, and Jan Kjærstad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wyndham Lewis ranks 199. Before him are Jim Lightbody, Aleksander Skrzyński, Richard Johansson, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Seán T. O'Kelly, and Karel Domin. After him are Aristarkh Lentulov, Verner Weckman, Mykolas Biržiška, Vladimir Dimitrov, Leonard Meredith, and Purushottam Das Tandon. Among people deceased in 1957, Wyndham Lewis ranks 163. Before him are Gaston Aumoitte, Ernesto Chaparro, Robert Lowie, Mikhail Gnessin, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie. After him are Carl Størmer, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Walter Nausch, Devdas Gandhi, Mark Aldanov, and Ernest Oppenheimer.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Wyndham Lewis ranks 357 out of 1,350. Before him are Chief Dan George (1899), Tom Thomson (1877), Kristin Kreuk (1982), Katherine DeMille (1911), Mort Sahl (1927), and Michel Tremblay (1942). After him are Étienne Desmarteau (1873), Feist (1976), Kate Nelligan (1950), Tommy Burns (1881), Mary Pierce (1975), and Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Wyndham Lewis ranks 24. Before him are Anne Carson (1950), Robin Sharma (1965), Robertson Davies (1913), Nancy Huston (1953), Grant Allen (1848), and Michel Tremblay (1942). After him are Duncan Regehr (1952), Louise Penny (1958), Mark Strand (1934), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), Sven Delblanc (1931), and Guy Gavriel Kay (1954).

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