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Julien Gracq

1910 - 2007

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Julien Gracq (French: [gʁak]; born Louis Poirier; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He was close to the surrealist movement, in particular its leader André Breton. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julien Gracq is the 1,789th most popular writer (up from 2,013th in 2019), the 2,068th most popular biography from France (up from 2,270th in 2019) and the 254th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julien Gracq ranks 1,789 out of 7,302. Before him are Upton Sinclair, Viktor Barna, William Carlos Williams, Izabela Czartoryska, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Thomas of Celano. After him are Adam Zagajewski, Gabriel Naudé, Ibn Kemal, Lilya Brik, Colin Dexter, and Juan Carlos Onetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Julien Gracq ranks 91. Before him are Rudolf Lange, Eero Saarinen, Paul Bowles, Chico Xavier, Masayoshi Ōhira, and Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. After him are Ngô Đình Nhu, He Zizhen, Armen Takhtajan, Sergey Gorshkov, J. Allen Hynek, and Irmfried Eberl. Among people deceased in 2007, Julien Gracq ranks 101. Before him are André Gorz, Sri Chinmoy, Pierre Messmer, Viliam Schrojf, Floyd Westerman, and Gianfranco Ferré. After him are Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Edward Yang, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Raymond Barre, Kisho Kurokawa, and Ian Stevenson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Julien Gracq ranks 2,068 out of 6,770. Before him are François Georges-Picot (1870), André Messager (1853), François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644), Charles Huntziger (1880), Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498), and Pierre Hadot (1922). After him are Henri Estienne (1528), Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (1746), Francis Veber (1937), Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Gabriel Naudé (1600), and Paul Cornu (1881).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Julien Gracq ranks 254. Before him are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Adalberon (947), Dominique Venner (1935), François Coppée (1842), Francis Jammes (1868), and Raymond Roussel (1877). After him are Gabriel Naudé (1600), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Pierre Reverdy (1889), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Jacques Cazotte (1719), and Joseph Joubert (1754).

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