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Anne Hébert

1916 - 2000

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Anne Hébert (pronounced [an eˈbɛʁ] in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Hébert is the 4,077th most popular writer (down from 3,882nd in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Canada (down from 262nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Canadian Writer.

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Among writers, Anne Hébert ranks 4,077 out of 7,302. Before her are Hovhannes Shiraz, Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier, Nuruddin Farah, Vira Vovk, André Schwarz-Bart, and Laura Cereta. After her are Gleb Uspensky, Laura Bridgman, Yuriy Venelin, Léo Malet, Nossis, and Mark Frost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Anne Hébert ranks 177. Before her are Bruno Chizzo, Arno Peters, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Fiorenzo Angelini, Herbert Norkus, and Nadya Nozharova. After her are Yasuji Miyazaki, Nelly Landry, Ralph Nelson, Shigeo Arai, Herbert Friedman, and Edward Binns. Among people deceased in 2000, Anne Hébert ranks 182. Before her are Carmen Martín Gaite, Ioannis Andreou, Henry Eriksson, Ansumane Mané, Antti Hyvärinen, and Julie London. After her are Mohammad Ali Fardin, Spyridon Chazapis, Pote Sarasin, Paula Wessely, Simeon Simeonov, and Carlos Guastavino.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Anne Hébert ranks 318 out of 1,622. Before her are Alexandra Stewart (1939), R. Murray Schafer (1933), Bobby Orr (1948), Yassine Bounou (1991), Ann Rutherford (1917), and Jason Priestley (1969). After her are Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), George Hodgson (1893), John Draper (1943), Marc Garneau (1949), Cobie Smulders (1982), and David Shore (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Anne Hébert ranks 15. Before her are Antonine Maillet (1929), Shulamith Firestone (1945), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Harold Russell (1914), Gabrielle Roy (1909), and Marie-Claire Blais (1939). After her are David Shore (1959), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Louise Penny (1958), Naomi Klein (1970), Émile Nelligan (1879), and Mazo de la Roche (1879).

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