WRITER

Yasmina Reza

1959 - Today

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Yasmina Reza (French: [ʁeza]; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasmina Reza has received more than 420,309 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yasmina Reza is the 2,076th most popular writer (up from 2,176th in 2019), the 2,333rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,419th in 2019) and the 292nd most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Art
Performing Arts
THE STORY: How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art? One of Marc's best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. It's about five feet by four, all white with white diagonal
19965 / 5
Aube le soir ou la nuit
Biography & Autobiography
A French playwright offers a chronicle of a year in the political life of Nicolas Sarkozy as he campaigned for the French presidency, furnishing an insider's glimpse of the campaign trail, high-level political meetings, encounters with heads of state, and
20082 / 5
Adam Haberberg
Fiction
Sitting on a Paris park bench brooding over his marital woes, his health, and a disastrous recent book launch, a writer is confronting a wasteland of male middle age when he is reunited with a female classmate he has not seen since high school. By the author of Desolation. Reprint.
20034 / 5
Une Desolation
1999
Desolation
2002
Trois versions de la vie
Fiction, general
2000
Desolation
Introspection, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Older men
2002
Art
Drama, Translations into Czech, Art
Serge has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person does something completely different and unexpected? The question is: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? Yasmina Reza's dazzling comedy received the Moliere Award for best play, best production and best author and ran for 18 months at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, from October 1994.
1996
Adam Haberberg
Authors, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed
2003
Happy are the happy
Fiction, humorous, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Man-woman relationships
2014
Aube le soir ou la nuit
Biography, Politics and government, Statesmen
2008
Desolation
Introspection, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Older men
2002
Happy are the happy
Fiction, humorous, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Man-woman relationships
2014
Trois versions de la vie
Fiction, general
2000
Art
Drama, Translations into Czech, Art
Serge has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person does something completely different and unexpected? The question is: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? Yasmina Reza's dazzling comedy received the Moliere Award for best play, best production and best author and ran for 18 months at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, from October 1994.
1996
Adam Haberberg
Authors, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed
2003
Aube le soir ou la nuit
Biography, Politics and government, Statesmen
2008

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yasmina Reza ranks 2,076 out of 7,302. Before her are Julius Firmicus Maternus, Ludwig Uhland, Anton Praetorius, Afanasy Fet, Isaac Titsingh, and Ibn Taghribirdi. After her are Barbara von Krüdener, Sigismund von Herberstein, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, George MacDonald, Vasily Aksyonov, and Sophie de Condorcet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Yasmina Reza ranks 90. Before her are Tobias Moretti, Drew Weissman, Sean Young, Takaaki Kajita, Donna Murphy, and Luis Fernández. After her are Alan Wilder, Lee Haney, Byung-Chul Han, Andrea de Cesaris, Suzanne Vega, and Kokhir Rasulzoda.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yasmina Reza ranks 2,333 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria (1278), Fulbert of Chartres (960), Saint Martial (300), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686). After her are Maïwenn (1976), Pierre Leroux (1797), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Dominique Venner (1935), and Bayezid Osman (1924).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Yasmina Reza ranks 292. Before her are Julien Gracq (1910), Matthieu Ricard (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), François Hotman (1524), Catherine Breillat (1948), and Honoré d'Urfé (1567). After her are Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Dominique Venner (1935), Philippe Sollers (1936), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Jean Bruller (1902), and Anne Golon (1921).

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