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John Antoine Nau

1860 - 1918

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John Antoine Nau (1860–1918), real name Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet, was a French poet and writer most famous for his novel Enemy Force, which won the first Prix Goncourt in 1903. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Antoine Nau is the 5,237th most popular writer (up from 5,446th in 2019), the 8,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,059th in 2019) and the 605th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, John Antoine Nau ranks 5,237 out of 7,302Before him are Gilbert Adair, Yambo Ouologuem, Marie Noël, Frank Heller, Yann Martel, and Abbas Sahhat. After him are Adolf Born, Heinrich Laube, Dorrit Willumsen, Zig Ziglar, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Vikenty Veresaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, John Antoine Nau ranks 124Before him are Jan Kasprowicz, Chandramukhi Basu, Frank Morley, Roger de Barbarin, Carlos José Solórzano, and Alicia Boole Stott. After him are Ferdinand Boberg, Ekaterina Karavelova, Robert Bacon, Ali Rıza Pasha, Antônio Parreiras, and Grigory Grum-Grshimailo. Among people deceased in 1918, John Antoine Nau ranks 163Before him are Thérèse Schwartze, Hanns Braun, Aleksei Evert, Waldemar Rosenberger, Antonios Pepanos, and Abbas Sahhat. After him are Grove Karl Gilbert, V. Volodarsky, Vasily Andreyev, Orville Gibson, Edward Abramowski, and Johan Henrik Deuntzer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Antoine Nau ranks 8,102 out of 20,380Before him are Chet Miller (1902), Bernard A. Harris Jr. (1956), Allen Garfield (1939), Gary Merrill (1915), Eric Winter (1976), and Richard Benjamin (1938). After him are Blair Brown (1946), Abraham Flexner (1866), Cytherea (1981), Carl Blegen (1887), Donna Mills (1940), and Denise Crosby (1957).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Antoine Nau ranks 605Before him are Tabitha King (1949), Helene Hanff (1916), Alan Dean Foster (1946), Bart D. Ehrman (1955), Chester Himes (1909), and Damon Knight (1922). After him are Zig Ziglar (1926), Dee Brown (1908), Richard Russo (1949), Elizabeth Hawley (1923), Jack Canfield (1944), and Joe R. Lansdale (1951).