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Roland Topor

1938 - 1997

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Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal black comedy nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish émigrés from Warsaw, Poland. He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Topor is the 1,406th most popular writer (down from 1,258th in 2019), the 1,612th most popular biography from France (down from 1,424th in 2019) and the 196th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roland Topor ranks 1,406 out of 7,302. Before him are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Elsa Triolet, Ko Un, Rosika Schwimmer, James Baldwin, and Cees Nooteboom. After him are Hartmann Schedel, Machado de Assis, Sergey Mikhalkov, Ihara Saikaku, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, and Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Roland Topor ranks 109. Before him are Nabih Berri, Juliet Anderson, Ben E. King, Ann Jones, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Ed Lauter. After him are Nino Benvenuti, Phil Knight, Ian Stewart, Milan Galić, Goh Kun, and Jack Jones. Among people deceased in 1997, Roland Topor ranks 72. Before him are Maria Prymachenko, Gerda Christian, Louis, Prince Napoléon, Yuri Nikulin, Bulat Okudzhava, and Narciso Yepes. After him are Mate Boban, Georg Solti, Nikolai Tikhonov, Alparslan Türkeş, Stig Anderson, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roland Topor ranks 1,612 out of 6,770. Before him are Bernard Lyot (1897), Louis Durey (1888), Arletty (1898), Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665), Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807). After him are Étienne Marcel (1315), Raymond Loewy (1893), Bernard Buffet (1928), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), André Martinet (1908), and Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Roland Topor ranks 196. Before him are Henri Murger (1822), Paul Scarron (1610), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), and Jean Chapelain (1595). After him are Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800), Roger Caillois (1913), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Odo of Cluny (878), and Louise Labé (1524).

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