WRITER

Arthur Rimbaud

1854 - 1891

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ nikɔla aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃bo] ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 after assembling his last major work, Illuminations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Rimbaud is the 104th most popular writer (down from 77th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from France (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Writer.

Arthur Rimbaud is most famous for his poem "A Season in Hell."

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Among writers, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 104 out of 7,302. Before him are Isaac Asimov, Paulo Coelho, Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Miyamoto Musashi. After him are François Rabelais, Jack London, Knut Hamsun, W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 3. Before him are Pope Benedict XV, and Oscar Wilde. After him are Henri Poincaré, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, and James George Frazer. Among people deceased in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 1. After him are Nikolaus Otto, Helena Blavatsky, Georges Seurat, Pedro II of Brazil, John A. Macdonald, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, P. T. Barnum, Herman Melville, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 100 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis de Funès (1914), Gustave Courbet (1819), Guy de Maupassant (1850), William the Conqueror (1028), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), and Louis Philippe I (1773). After him are François Rabelais (1494), Louis XII of France (1462), Henry II of France (1519), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), and Louis the Pious (778).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 21. Before him are Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and Alexandre Dumas fils (1824). After him are François Rabelais (1494), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Marquis de Sade (1740), Anatole France (1844), André Gide (1869), and Sully Prudhomme (1839).

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