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Blaise Cendrars

1887 - 1961

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Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars (French: [sɑ̃dʁaʁ]), was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Blaise Cendrars is the 1,219th most popular writer (up from 1,233rd in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 124th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Writer.

Blaise Cendrars is most famous for being a poet and novelist. He wrote "La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France" which is a collection of poems about a train journey from Moscow to Beijing.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Blaise Cendrars ranks 1,219 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmed Deedat, Shi Nai'an, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Matteo Bandello, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and James Clavell. After him are Cornelius Gallus, Robert Sheckley, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Hristo Botev, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Léo Taxil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Blaise Cendrars ranks 61. Before him are Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Hans Oster, Julian Huxley, Josef Harpe, Giovanni Gronchi, and Mitsuru Ushijima. After him are Annette Kellermann, Josef Čapek, Frederick Fleet, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Joseph Bech. Among people deceased in 1961, Blaise Cendrars ranks 27. Before him are Adnan Menderes, Dashiell Hammett, Sergio Osmeña, Luigi Einaudi, Paul Landowski, and Akiba Rubinstein. After him are Wolfgang von Trips, Arthur Drewry, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Jeff Chandler, Paul Wittgenstein, and Karl Korsch.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars ranks 131 out of 1,015. Before him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Marthe Keller (1945), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), and Ludwig Binswanger (1881). After him are Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Mario Adorf (1930), and Hannes Meyer (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars ranks 13. Before him are Max Frisch (1911), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908). After him are Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), and Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698).

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