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Guillaume Apollinaire

1880 - 1918

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Guillaume Apollinaire (; French: [ɡijom apɔlinɛʁ]; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "Cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement, the term Orphism in 1912, and the term "Surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. He wrote poems without punctuation, in his attempt to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Apollinaire is the 162nd most popular writer (down from 130th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire is most famous for his "Calligrammes" which is a series of poems that are written in the shape of the object they are describing.

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Among writers, Guillaume Apollinaire ranks 162 out of 7,302. Before him are Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Tomas Tranströmer. After him are Jean Racine, Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, Heinrich Böll, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Among people born in 1880, Guillaume Apollinaire ranks 3. Before him are George Marshall, and Helen Keller. After him are Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Fedor von Bock, John Boyd Orr, Robert Musil, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc. Among people deceased in 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire ranks 9. Before him are Claude Debussy, Abdul Hamid II, Alexandra Feodorovna, Gavrilo Princip, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, and Egon Schiele. After him are Mehmed V, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Georg Cantor, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Karl Ferdinand Braun, and Manfred von Richthofen.

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Among people born in Italy, Guillaume Apollinaire ranks 242 out of 5,161. Before him are Luca Pacioli (1445), Pope Lucius III (1110), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), Pope Damasus I (305), and Pope Marcellus I (255). After him are Pope Innocent II (1100), Anselm of Canterbury (1033), Agnes of Rome (291), Pope Celestine V (1215), Diodorus Siculus (-90), and Pope Innocent I (378).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Guillaume Apollinaire ranks 13. Before him are Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), and Plautus (-254). After him are Catullus (-84), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), and Grazia Deledda (1871).

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