WRITER

René Daumal

1908 - 1944

René Daumal

René Daumal (French: [domal]; 16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Daumal is the 3,066th most popular writer (up from 3,140th in 2019), the 3,219th most popular biography from France (up from 3,273rd in 2019) and the 411th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Daumal ranks 3,066 out of 7,302. Before him are Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Maksim Bahdanovič, Şihabetdin Märcani, Walter Pater, Simon of Kéza, and Vizma Belševica. After him are Jean Rhys, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Miodrag Bulatović, Aleksey Pisemsky, Stephenie Meyer, and Edgar Hilsenrath.

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
1902 - 1987
HPI: 60.22
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Maksim Bahdanovič
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HPI: 60.20
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Şihabetdin Märcani
1818 - 1889
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Walter Pater
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1908 - 1944
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 3,066
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HPI: 60.19
Rank: 3,067
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Stephenie Meyer
1973 - Present
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 3,071
Edgar Hilsenrath
1926 - 2018
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 3,072

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, René Daumal ranks 170. Before him are Paul Henreid, Baby Face Nelson, Titus Burckhardt, Ștefan Barbu, Olga Benário Prestes, and Bronisława Wajs. After him are Sucheta Kriplani, Janina Lewandowska, Pál Titkos, Oddbjørn Hagen, Robert Morley, and Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1944, René Daumal ranks 177. Before him are Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Miklós Radnóti, Félix Fénéon, Eduard Wagner, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Sára Salkaházi. After him are George David Birkhoff, Alois Musil, Árpád Weisz, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Leone Ginzburg, and Itzhak Katzenelson.

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Paul Henreid
ACTOR
1908 - 1992
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 164
Baby Face Nelson
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1908 - 1934
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 165
Titus Burckhardt
WRITER
1908 - 1984
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 166
Ștefan Barbu
SOCCER PLAYER
1908 - 1970
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 167
Olga Benário Prestes
POLITICIAN
1908 - 1942
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 168
Bronisława Wajs
WRITER
1908 - 1987
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 169
René Daumal
WRITER
1908 - 1944
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 170
Sucheta Kriplani
POLITICIAN
1908 - 1974
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 171
Janina Lewandowska
PILOT
1908 - 1940
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 172
Pál Titkos
SOCCER PLAYER
1908 - 1988
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 173
Oddbjørn Hagen
POLITICIAN
1908 - 1983
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 174
Robert Morley
ACTOR
1908 - 1992
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Rank: 175
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
NOBLEMAN
1908 - 1980
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 176

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Mariya Oktyabrskaya
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1905 - 1944
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 171
Miklós Radnóti
WRITER
1909 - 1944
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 172
Félix Fénéon
WRITER
1861 - 1944
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 173
Eduard Wagner
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1894 - 1944
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 174
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
LAWYER
1904 - 1944
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 175
Sára Salkaházi
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1899 - 1944
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 176
René Daumal
WRITER
1908 - 1944
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 177
George David Birkhoff
MATHEMATICIAN
1884 - 1944
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 178
Alois Musil
WRITER
1868 - 1944
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 179
Árpád Weisz
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1896 - 1944
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 180
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1899 - 1944
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 181
Leone Ginzburg
WRITER
1909 - 1944
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 182
Itzhak Katzenelson
WRITER
1886 - 1944
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 183

In France

Among people born in France, René Daumal ranks 3,219 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Rollin (1661), Freya Stark (1893), Henri Brocard (1845), Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), and Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724). After him are Auguste Vaillant (1861), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), François Marie Daudin (1776), Étienne Mattler (1905), Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), and Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684).

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Charles Rollin
HISTORIAN
1661 - 1741
HPI: 60.21
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Pierre Victor Auger
PHYSICIST
1899 - 1993
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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
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1724 - 1805
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HPI: 60.19
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Guillaume Le Gentil
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