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James Joyce

1882 - 1941

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Joyce is the 13th most popular writer (up from 101st in 2019), the most popular biography from Ireland (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Irish Writer.

James Joyce is most famous for his novel Ulysses, which is considered to be one of the most important novels of the 20th century.

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Among writers, James Joyce ranks 13 out of 7,302. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire. After him are Sophocles, Jules Verne, Virgil, Molière, Miguel de Cervantes, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Among people born in 1882, James Joyce ranks 1. After him are Igor Stravinsky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, Sigrid Undset, Max Born, Georgi Dimitrov, Ion Antonescu, and Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. Among people deceased in 1941, James Joyce ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Bergson, Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, Emanuel Lasker, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, and Paul Sabatier.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, James Joyce ranks 1 out of 549. After him are Oscar Wilde (1854), Richard Harris (1930), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), George Berkeley (1685), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819).

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Among writers born in Ireland, James Joyce ranks 1. After him are Oscar Wilde (1854), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Saint Gall (550).

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