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Michel Leiris

1901 - 1990

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Julien Michel Leiris (French: [lɛʁis]; 20 April 1901, Paris – 30 September 1990, Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Leiris is the 2,200th most popular writer (down from 2,163rd in 2019), the 2,473rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,427th in 2019) and the 310th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michel Leiris ranks 2,200 out of 7,302. Before him are Christina Rossetti, Kuvempu, Lidia Zamenhof, Izumi Shikibu, Anne Applebaum, and Bernardus Silvestris. After him are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Richard Adams, Martin Amis, Abraham ibn Daud, Elena Poniatowska, and Wilhelm Raabe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Michel Leiris ranks 111. Before him are Cassandre, Henry Eyring, Carlo Biotti, George Gallup, Chen Yi, and Princess Yolanda of Savoy. After him are Maxwell D. Taylor, Nina Berberova, Fred Uhlman, Jean Prouvé, Otto Wächter, and Manuel Urrutia Lleó. Among people deceased in 1990, Michel Leiris ranks 88. Before him are Alan Hale Jr., Taro Kagawa, Lewis Mumford, Thorbjørn Egner, Georgy Flyorov, and Peter Taylor. After him are Lothar Collatz, George de Mestral, Joan Bennett, Sergei Dovlatov, Eduard Streltsov, and Peter Wessel Zapffe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Leiris ranks 2,473 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria (1374), Christian Boltanski (1944), Charles IV, Duke of Alençon (1489), Jules Jamin (1818), François Berléand (1952), and Bernardus Silvestris (1085). After him are Louis Massignon (1883), Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (1753), Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Christian Metz (1931), and Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Michel Leiris ranks 310. Before him are Philippe Sollers (1936), Bernard Palissy (1510), Pierre Lemaitre (1951), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), and Bernardus Silvestris (1085). After him are Elena Poniatowska (1932), Gaston Paris (1839), Pierre Gamarra (1919), Matthieu Ricard (1946), Claude Farrère (1876), and Pierre Klossowski (1905).

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