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Marguerite Yourcenar

1903 - 1987

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Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite Yourcenar is the 456th most popular writer (down from 345th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 45th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Writer.

Marguerite Yourcenar is most famous for her novel Memoirs of Hadrian.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marguerite Yourcenar ranks 456 out of 7,302. Before her are Thomas De Quincey, Philip Roth, Demetrius Vikelas, Jo Nesbø, Carl Spitteler, and Louis Aragon. After her are Gabriela Mistral, Ahmad Yasawi, Baldassare Castiglione, Dan Brown, Samuel Butler, and Statius.

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Among people born in 1903, Marguerite Yourcenar ranks 20. Before her are Mark Rothko, Jan Tinbergen, Andrey Kolmogorov, Galeazzo Ciano, Vladimir Horowitz, and Yasujirō Ozu. After her are Tamam Shud case, Lars Onsager, Kane Tanaka, Frank P. Ramsey, Hugo Theorell, and Anaïs Nin. Among people deceased in 1987, Marguerite Yourcenar ranks 14. Before her are John Howard Northrop, Rita Hayworth, Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Astaire, Walter Houser Brattain, and Gunnar Myrdal. After her are William Stuart-Houston, William P. Murphy, Thomas Sankara, Jacques Anquetil, Pola Negri, and Fahri Korutürk.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Marguerite Yourcenar ranks 62 out of 1,190. Before her are Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338), Pepin of Landen (585), Adolphe Sax (1814), Simon Stevin (1548), Henry van de Velde (1863), and Yves Chauvin (1930). After her are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), Dominique Pire (1910), Isabella of Austria (1501), Léon Degrelle (1906), Jacob Jordaens (1593), and François Englert (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Marguerite Yourcenar ranks 4. Before her are Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Georges Simenon (1903), and Julio Cortázar (1914). After her are Émile Verhaeren (1855), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Marguerite Porete (1250), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Victor Serge (1890).

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