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Jacques Dupin

1927 - 2012

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Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère. Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital. In 1944, the family moved to Paris, where, in 1950, the poet René Char helped him publish his first collection of poems. In 1966, he co-founded the poetry quarterly L’Éphémère, with poets including André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Celan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Dupin is the 5,397th most popular writer (down from 4,589th in 2019), the 4,737th most popular biography from France (down from 4,251st in 2019) and the 605th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Dupin ranks 5,397 out of 7,302Before him are Umihana Čuvidina, Anne V. Coates, Angélica Gorodischer, Philippe Claudel, Vernon Lee, and Hugh Walpole. After him are Giorgi Leonidze, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Katherine Neville, Jean Amrouche, Castro Alves, and Karel van de Woestijne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Jacques Dupin ranks 368Before him are Susan Cabot, Rita Gam, Yrjö Hietanen, Eva Pawlik, Robert Boutigny, and Werner Haas. After him are George Hunter, Liselott Linsenhoff, Holger Hansson, Henri Dirickx, Sirkka Polkunen, and Bill Daily. Among people deceased in 2012, Jacques Dupin ranks 345Before him are Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Homai Vyarawalla, Franz West, Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Klaus Schütz, and Jorge Illueca. After him are Gerry Anderson, Brigitte Engerer, Igor Kvasha, Norman Joseph Woodland, Anna Schwartz, and Oswaldo Payá.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Dupin ranks 4,737 out of 6,770Before him are Léon Delagrange (1872), Robert Boutigny (1927), Pierre Chambon (1931), Philippe Claudel (1962), Vernon Lee (1856), and Pierre Gasly (1996). After him are Jean-Louis Borloo (1951), Guillaume Grandidier (1873), Éric Bernard (1964), Martin Fourcade (1988), François Bourgeon (1945), and Francis Girod (1944).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Dupin ranks 605Before him are Jacques Laurent (1919), Louis Guilloux (1899), Marceline Loridan-Ivens (1928), Raymond Schwartz (1894), Philippe Claudel (1962), and Vernon Lee (1856). After him are Anatole Le Braz (1859), Carine Roitfeld (1954), Jeanne Dumée (1660), Teresa de la Parra (1889), René Benjamin (1885), and Armand Lanoux (1913).