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Laurence Sterne

1713 - 1768

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Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768). Sterne grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees, and was ordained as a priest in 1738. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laurence Sterne is the 646th most popular writer (down from 572nd in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Irish Writer.

Laurence Sterne is most famous for his novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."

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Among writers, Laurence Sterne ranks 646 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikael Agricola, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Giambattista Basile, Tibor Sekelj, Anton Makarenko, and Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. After him are Nestor the Chronicler, Klaus Mann, Eugenio Montale, Jon Fosse, Alexander Pope, and Irène Némirovsky.

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Among people born in 1713, Laurence Sterne ranks 5. Before him are Denis Diderot, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Ferdinand VI of Spain, and Alexis Clairaut. After him are Princess Caroline of Great Britain, Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Junípero Serra, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Johann Ludwig Krebs. Among people deceased in 1768, Laurence Sterne ranks 5. Before him are Canaletto, Marie Leszczyńska, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Nicola Porpora. After him are Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Laurence Sterne ranks 37 out of 549. Before him are Kevin Farrell (1947), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), Columbanus (540), Michael D. Higgins (1941), and Bertie Ahern (1951). After him are Harald Gille (1103), Joseph Murphy (1898), Liam Cunningham (1961), Lola Montez (1821), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Enya (1961).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Laurence Sterne ranks 9. Before him are George Bernard Shaw (1856), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), and Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852). After him are Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), Saint Gall (550), Ethel Voynich (1864), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), and Thomas Moore (1779).

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