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Pierre Michon

1945 - Today

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Pierre Michon (born 28 March 1945 in Châtelus-le-Marcheix, Creuse) is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Pierre Michon is the 4,577th most popular writer (down from 4,145th in 2024), the 4,292nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,978th in 2019) and the 544th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Michon ranks 4,577 out of 7,302. Before him are Tankred Dorst, Bill Lawrence, Mazo de la Roche, Leopold Staff, Angelo de Gubernatis, and Yevhen Hrebinka. After him are Louise Otto-Peters, Scholastique Mukasonga, Aleksei Arbuzov, Julia Ward Howe, Paul Déroulède, and Werner Bergengruen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Pierre Michon ranks 411. Before him are Willeke Alberti, Jean-Marie Poiré, Gregory Olsen, Mikhail Voronin, Zahra Rahnavard, and Wolfram Löwe. After him are Katri Helena, Katharine Houghton, Göran Claeson, Lasse Berghagen, Mohammed Hazzaz, and Meira Kumar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Michon ranks 4,292 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), Hippolyte Girardot (1955), Roger Marche (1924), Bruno Coulais (1954), Bafétimbi Gomis (1985), and Kingsley Coman (1996). After him are Yvette Cauchois (1908), Romain Duris (1974), Ratramnus (800), Paul Déroulède (1846), Hugo Falcandus (1200), and Jean-Augustin Barral (1819).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Michon ranks 544. Before him are Michel Déon (1919), Régine Deforges (1935), Olivier de Serres (1539), Francis de Miomandre (1880), Ernst Stadler (1883), and Jean-Richard Bloch (1884). After him are Paul Déroulède (1846), Guillaume Musso (1974), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709), and François Tristan l'Hermite (1601).

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