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Ella Maillart

1903 - 1997

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Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; 20 February 1903, Geneva – 27 March 1997, Chandolin) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ella Maillart is the 3,756th most popular writer (down from 3,395th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ella Maillart ranks 3,756 out of 7,302Before her are Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Cotton Mather, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Mikheil Javakhishvili, André Aciman, and Peter Cheyney. After her are Ryōtarō Shiba, Charles Malik, Douglas Preston, Joseph Joffo, Louis Adamic, and Bret Easton Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Ella Maillart ranks 187Before her are Gaito Gazdanov, Márton Bukovi, Nikolay Cherkasov, Kea Bouman, Jimmy Ball, and Ward Bond. After her are Kathleen Lonsdale, Julie Vlasto, Ivan Galamian, Georgy Beriev, Ary Barroso, and Gerhard Schrader. Among people deceased in 1997, Ella Maillart ranks 164Before her are Georges Marchal, Ziya Bunyadov, Mikel Koliqi, Juan Burgueño, Fritz Schär, and William Martínez. After her are Edward Gardère, Robert Herman, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Bengt Danielsson, William Hickey, and Aurelio González.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ella Maillart ranks 396 out of 1,015Before her are Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889), Gustav Wiederkehr (1905), Fritz Schär (1926), Jean Reynier (1771), Aurèle Nicolet (1926), and Thomas Bickel (1963). After her are Edmond Privat (1889), Albert Meyer (1870), Elisabeth Kopp (1936), Robert Ballaman (1926), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), and Corina Casanova (1956).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Ella Maillart ranks 38Before her are Arthur Cravan (1887), Fernán Caballero (1796), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Theodore Bibliander (1500), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), and Françoise Giroud (1916). After her are Edmond Privat (1889), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701), Robert Pinget (1919), Johann David Wyss (1743), and Urs Widmer (1938).