WRITER

Raymond Queneau

1903 - 1976

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Raymond Auguste Queneau (; French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ kəno]; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Queneau is the 620th most popular writer (up from 631st in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from France (down from 730th in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Writer.

Raymond Queneau is most famous for his novel Zazie dans le métro, which has been translated into English as Zazie in the Metro.

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Among writers, Raymond Queneau ranks 620 out of 7,302. Before him are Amin Maalouf, Aulus Gellius, Harold Pinter, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Saint Naum, and Louise de La Vallière. After him are Han Kang, Theodore Dreiser, Joan Fuster, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francisco de Quevedo, and Poliziano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Raymond Queneau ranks 33. Before him are Mustafa Barzani, Karl Hanke, Rudolf Abel, Nikolai Podgorny, Fahri Korutürk, and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. After him are John Dillinger, Hans Jonas, Irène Némirovsky, John Eccles, The French Angel, and Alec Douglas-Home. Among people deceased in 1976, Raymond Queneau ranks 28. Before him are Benjamin Britten, Lars Onsager, Joachim Peiper, Ulrike Meinhof, J. Paul Getty, and Gustav Heinemann. After him are Alexander Calder, Anneliese Michel, Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Choe Yong-gon, and Juscelino Kubitschek.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raymond Queneau ranks 746 out of 6,770. Before him are Antipope Clement VII (1342), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Louis Blériot (1872), Adela of Champagne (1140), Marie of Anjou (1404), and Louise de La Vallière (1644). After him are Louise of Lorraine (1553), Simone Veil (1927), Jean Nouvel (1945), Raoul Dufy (1877), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), and Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Raymond Queneau ranks 105. Before him are Antoine François Prévost (1697), Alfred de Musset (1810), Ausonius (310), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), and Louise de La Vallière (1644). After him are Madame Roland (1754), Bernard Gui (1261), Maurice Blanchot (1907), Sidonius Apollinaris (430), Maurice Denis (1870), and Eugène Sue (1804).

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