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Edmond Jabès

1912 - 1991

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Edmond Jabès (French: [ʒabɛs]; Arabic: إدمون جابيس; Cairo, April 14, 1912 – Paris, January 2, 1991) was a French writer and poet of Egyptian origin, and one of the best known literary figures writing in French after World War II. The work he produced when living in France in the late 1950s until his death in 1991 is highly original in form and breadth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Jabès is the 2,336th most popular writer (down from 1,843rd in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 299th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Among writers, Edmond Jabès ranks 2,336 out of 7,302. Before him are Aharon Appelfeld, Posidippus, Afanasy Fet, Maciej Stryjkowski, Vasko Popa, and Phocylides. After him are Zosimos of Panopolis, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Ouida, Tayeb Salih, Duris of Samos, and Victorinus of Pettau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Edmond Jabès ranks 130. Before him are Thorbjørn Egner, Moses Finley, Nancy Wake, Fritz Fischer, Fritz Klingenberg, and David Packard. After him are Charles Addams, Gil Evans, Joachim Schepke, Manuel Rosas, Folco Lulli, and Josef Blösche. Among people deceased in 1991, Edmond Jabès ranks 89. Before him are Rudolf Serkin, Shintaro Abe, Ho Jong-suk, Berenice Abbott, Kevin Peter Hall, and Vasko Popa. After him are Alex North, Andrzej Panufnik, Yasushi Inoue, Schubert Gambetta, Mikheil Meskhi, and Gino Colaussi.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Edmond Jabès ranks 340 out of 642. Before him are Amr Moussa (1936), Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (1902), Nebettawy (-1250), Shenoute (348), Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), and Said Halim Pasha (1865). After him are Zosimos of Panopolis (250), Qasim Amin (1863), Antonios Naguib (1935), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Shadia (1931), and Nasr Abu Zayd (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Edmond Jabès ranks 25. Before him are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Herodas (-300), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), Anastasius Sinaita (630), Ibn al-Farid (1181), and Ibn Taghribirdi (1410). After him are Zosimos of Panopolis (250), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), Salama Moussa (1887), and Doria Shafik (1908).

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